BIO

Elia Haiz makes abstract paintings through layering, erasure and reworking. Stains, scraped passages, drawn marks and organic silhouettes gather across the surface, held between image and material. Forms begin to emerge, but remain in motion - shifted, interrupted, buried or drawn back into the painting before they stabilise.

The work develops through a tension between formation and dissolution. Some areas are worked until they become dense and sedimented; others remain open, provisional or partially erased. Structure and disruption operate together: areas of control are unsettled by more fluid, physical handling of paint, keeping the image active rather than fixed.

Haiz is interested in surface as an event rather than a boundary. The paintings do not resolve into fixed subjects. They hold fragments in suspension, allowing forms to be found, lost and found again. Uncertainty is built into the work through visible decisions, unstable forms and marks that remain open to change

Haiz has exhibited at Central Saint Martins, Lewisham Arthouse, and the London Art Fair. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Art Jericho and Cornerstone Arts Centre, Oxfordshire. Their work is held in the University of the Arts London Collection.