Elise Cakebread

Elise Cakebread is a textile based artist living and working in regional Victoria, Australia.

Elise is driven by experimentation within traditional textile processes and techniques.

Her work focuses on the tensions created by unexpected contrasts that emerge between material, form, colour, texture and scale. She explores ideas of materiality, tactility, sustainability, disposability and the ornamental. This gives life to sculptural work, installations and decorative objects.

Elise’s work is concerned with how physicality and texture create intimacy with the viewer, engaging senses that are increasingly relegated to a secondary importance in our hyper digital lives. She seeks to draw the audience into the physical world by elevating the aesthetic value of haptics and form on to an equal plain with the visual. Through this Elise questions ideas of material worth, sensory modulation and aesthetic value systems