SETUP Speaker Series Presents: Elspeth Pratt

SET UP is a student-run lecture series that presents established conceptual Canadian artists in an informal setting. Please join us for the third talk in the series with Elspeth Pratt.

Elspeth Pratt is a Vancouver-based visual artist and has been practicing for over twenty-five years. She received a BFA from the University of Manitoba and an MFA from UBC and currently teaches at SFU. Pratt has developed a thoughtful sculptural practice using common building or household materials to engage with ideas of architecture and social space along with notions of instability, impermanence and vulnerability. Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions including shows at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, YYZ (Toronto), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), and most recently at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in the spring of 2008. She has participated in local and international group shows such as Weak Thought at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Architettura: Astriazione in Rome, NADiff in Tokyo, and Contingent: Eva Hesse, Elspeth Pratt, and Martha Townsend at the Dunlop Art Gallery.

This lecture is free and open to the public. SET UP, organized through the Emily Carr Sculpture Department, has been made possible through the generous donation of the artists' time.

March 18, 2009, 7pm
Room 245, North Building