Elize de Beer is a South African visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. Her multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, books, and sculpture. She explores and critically engages with archival materials to examine not only the act of archiving but also how archives shape personal narratives and address broader global concerns such as climate change, immigration, land, and the preservation of knowledge.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Working with both photographic and written archival sources, de Beer uses these materials to construct new or alternative narratives, drawing on analogue and digital processes to question how histories are recorded, mediated, and re-imagined. These archives range from personal, council and institutional. Recently working with the Waterford City and County archive, the UCC Special collections library's Liam Kennedy Collection and a personal history photographic Antarctica collection. De Beer has worked within archives and collections as a paper and book conservator and has experience in archive digitisation and access.
