My work is about the pleasure of the unexpected visual events that occur in an urban environment. I enjoy glimpses of views seen through the gaps of buildings, light appearing magically in dark places and the way architecture can frame people, as if they have assumed the importance of the protagonist in a pre-renaissance painting.

I create sculptural installations, which require the audience to pass around and through to experience them fully. In my sculptures I am interested in creating visual events.

I have made sculptural installations from painted sheet steel, the viewer could walk around and through these installations. In these structures I have explored the effect that can be made by moving parallel verticals to create a play on perspective.

The objects I create can appear to be quite large and monumental but I am also interested in the more subtle approaches to creating environments. 

I have introduced aspects of artificial light and colour into my work, developing the wall-mounted pieces, which I began to make a few years ago.

I like to make work which has no fixed viewpoint but which develops and changes as the viewer moves around or past it, whether the sculpture is freestanding or wall-based, it creates frames into either an imaginary space or an actual physical space distorted by the perspective of the sculpture.

Elizabeth de Monchaux 2004.