Elizabeth Turrel works in the enamel medium, and dedicates much of her practice to research in enamel art at the Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE. She has done many comissions, some of those include works for the CATALIS Public Art Project, the Emmerson Green Library control desk, and contributor to the Tree of Life Exhibition in 2002. Earlier commissions include coordinator/artist work for the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, The National Library for Women, and a book for A&C Black on contemporary enamelling.
Before the lecture I was not quite sure what enamel art was. It is more of a 2 dimensional art at first, unless later applied to a 3 dimensional surface- but in her case usually a metal surface. In Enamelling, Turrell creates decals with the use of a highly technical process, some of the materials and processes she utilizes are steel, stainless steel, copper, larger sheets of metal, litho, typesetting, screen printing, and stencils for enamels from a laser cutter. What I find interesting about this work is the wide variety of visual possibilities that can come from working in this medium. She describes enamelling as being similar to glaze in pottery.
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