Elise Else

Elise Else is a London-based sculptor whose work employs a diverse range of materials, from plaster, clay, polystyrene, paper and concrete, to more unlikely substances and found forms. Mixing notions of the artificial, synthetic and organic, her sculptures interrogate the language of the things around us, drawing inspiration from the human body, nature, industrial production and the built environment. Her references to anatomy, fossils and the botanical are melded together with the pristine perfection of manufactured, mass-produced objects, their combination blurring distinctions between living and processed forms that reveal ambiguous, strange connections between bodies, landscapes and the environments we make and inhabit.