Bad Hair Day, Milking and To Drape

Butterflies in the Stomach

"Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva makes work which challenges both the viewer and the organisations commissioning her.
Using locally significant material, personal research, responding to the physical site, utilising scale, repetition and manipulation, Elpida chooses to use both scale and surprise to challenge us to see the locality through different eyes.
...Here she has made different shapes and structures, reflecting lace making (and just as intricate), but produced out of Tripe, Caul Fat, Intestines or Omasum. This device of using different materials to that which is expected, encourages a sense of experimentation, a challenge to the orthodox and, strangely, a celebration of craft.
...Elpida manages to make work, which is both of and about its place. All of the works she makes are unique in this way and reflect a real belief in the local and the community. Here she has made work, which reflects special things (which may seem ordinary to some) about the place, but it is this which makes the work so accessible and approachable for a wide range of people."
From 'Revealed', text by Mark Segal, November 2007