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Liz Atkin is a visual artist based in London. With a background in theatre and dance, physicality underpins her creative practice. Skin is her primary source for corporeal art. She explores texture and transformation through body focused repetitive behaviour. This personal investigation involves a sometimes violent rendering of the body in order to condense it to matter for resculpting. Liz is interested in skin as a constantly transforming surface, ripe with memory, a flesh canvas. Her work with the body is visceral and evocative, situated in the tradition of Live Art performance and abstract expressionism. 'Skin is my constant fascination. Whether it is mortified or glorified, I employ skin as both a boundary and point of connection. For me, it is the model for the many ways we meet the material world and shape it to our ends or to its. Skin is unavoidably personal. It has the capacity to carry what the body has experienced. Skin is a work in progress; its appearance is always malleable and shifting.' Liz completed a Masters with Distinction from Laban in 2007. She won The London Paper self-portrait award with the London Affordable Art Fair in February 2008. Liz was the only international Artist in Residence on The Genesis Project, Los Angeles California for five weeks in Aug/Sept 2008. On this body-based residency Liz continued her research into skin and private acts of transformation. She has exhibited her work solo and group exhibitions in London at The Albany Theatre (Oct 2007), The Gallery in Stoke Newington (May 2008), APT Gallery in Deptford (April 2008), Camden People's Theatre (Oct 2008), and 'What NOW,' a weekend showcase at Siobhan Davies Studios, London in April 2009, celebrating a new generation of young dance-artists who think and ask questions through movement and the body. In 2010 Liz joined Havelock Walk in South London, a creative community of sculptors, painters, designers, photographers and other visual artists. Most recently Liz exhibited work at Blackheath Halls from May to June 2010, London's oldest established purpose-built concert venue, one of the most outstanding centres for music and the performing arts in South London.