Cayman Fibre View
Discussing Cayman Fibre View, a textile work made of found plastic fibre, the artist notes that according to the Natural Resources Defense Council in the US (NRDC), “recyclable postconsumer packing with an estimated value of 11.4 billion dollars is landfilled each year instead of being recycled”. In response, Elphinstone’s offers a delicate hand-woven object as an implicit critique of our precarious natural landscape, warning that “our children and children’s children will grow up collecting plastic on the beach”, which in turn will end up in landfill sites, threatening birds and other wildlife.
About the Artist
Kathryn Elphinstone
b. 1957
Kathryn Elphinstone studied art at the University of Toronto, Canada. She received a BA majoring in Visual Arts and a B.Ed. from the same institution. Before arriving in the Cayman Islands in 1994 she was the head of Art at a high school north of Toronto and also taught Art at Seneca College, Toronto. In Cayman she continued to be involved in Art Education as well as the Art community. She has exhibited in numerous NGCI exhibitions including Upon the Seas (2017), 1st Cayman Islands Biennial: Cross Currents (2019), Island of Women (2020), Art Under Lockdown (2020), 2nd Cayman Islands Biennial: ReImagined Futures (2021), and 3rd Cayman Islands Biennial: Conversations with the Past-In the Present Tense (2023).
