Following this week’s online lesson, I began researching alternative canvases. Liz Maw’s work stood out to me during the presentation therefore I decided to look into her practice further.
Liz Maw
New Zealand artist Liz Maw is a painter who works in oils primarily onto prints of other artist’s work. I’m curious about her work because of how obscure and abstract her additions to the works are.
‘State Highway 1 Medusa’ 
‘history painting’ 
‘English Artist from a Magazine’
All of these works are on pre-printed substrates. State Highway 1 Medusa is painted in oil onto an ink jet print, 2012. history painting is oil on a found painting, 2012. English Artist from a Magazine is oil on a found canvas and found mask, 2014.
In this biographical article, “Liz Maw”, Maw’s style is described as ‘celebrating and questioning distinctions between high and low art’ through her emulation of European old masters. With a catholic background, many of her hyper realistic works are challenging the iconography of religious paintings by shifting the focus to contemporary celebrities and people she admires.
Sexual Politics Now, ‘Artist Bios: Liz Maw‘, Accessed 9 September 2021, http://www.sexualpoliticsnow.org.nz/exhib_biog/liz-maw/