ARTIST STATEMENT
Elaine Woo is a self taught Canadian artist and poet passionate about repurposing plastics, clothing, fabric scraps, vinyl records, clocks, pump bottles, pill bottles, gold foil, painting mouth guards and their cases.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elaine Woo is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program. She studied art history and was a psychology major. Elaine Woo is a self taught Canadian artist and poet passionate about repurposing plastics, clothing, fabric scraps, vinyl records, clocks, pump bottles, pill bottles, gold foil, painting mouth guards and their cases.
She is a Jane of all trades, with vegan recipes on the Elephant Journal site. On the Boulder, Colorado site has written on subjects as varied as relieving anxiety and depression, the poverty of seniors, and why some people seem so angry.
Some of her exhibits are on the London auction site MutualArt.com. As a member of Woman Made Gallery she has exhibited in Chicago, as well as in Rochester, NY, and in Las Lagunas, Ca.
Many of Elaine’s art dolls are on the Australian online site Otoliths. Otoliths will be archived for the next one hundred years.
She has translated French Canadian Surrealist poet, Jean Paul Martino’s Git Net from French to English, collaborated with Vegas composer Rylan Leo Helmuth and Canadian composers Adam Hill, and Daniel Marshal writing the libretto and lyrics for art song, rock music, creating John Cage-like works, and other experimental musical pieces. Her art song collaborations are on soundpath.com under the handle elainesoundpath.com.
Her poetry collections “Put Your Hand in Mine,” Signature Editions, 2019 and “Cycling with the Dragon” Nightwood Editions, 2014. PYHIM was cited as one of the three best poetry collections in recent years by the CBC.
© Elaine Woo