FLOAT exhibition
Photographer - ©Susanne Hakuba
FLOAT
Jellyfish Cyanotypes
First exhibited at Joseph Wales Studios, Margate
16-26 October 2025
These works were created from washed-up jellyfish collected from north Thanet’s shoreline and first shown as part of FLOAT at the Joseph Wales Studios in Margate, curated by Alice Herrick. The exhibition, presented alongside artists Pippa Darbyshire and Susanne Hakuba, reflected their shared connection to the sea and together forms a quiet meditation on movement and impermanence, fragility and endurance.
For Float, Elizabeth presents a series of cyanotypes made from jellyfish found washed up along her local shoreline. During the summer of ‘25, she regularly combed the beaches, searching for these ethereal seasonal visitors left behind by the tide. Each jellyfish was carefully collected and used to create a unique photogram, its fragile form preserved through sunlight, iron salts and time. The resulting works hold the trace of a once-living body, transformed into luminous blue shadows on paper. The jellyfish stand as emblems of fragility and endurance, reminders of the shifting balance between life, loss and the sea’s continual motion.
Each work is titled with the What3Words location where the jellyfish was found, a precise three-word code that anchors the moment of discovery to a single point on the map. These coordinates act as spatial anchors, fixing the transient and the serendipitous to the geography of the shore forming a poetic cartography of Margate’s coast.
///jetting.showed.stung
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///strapping.puff.pink
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///eyelid.electrode.blossom
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///avoiding.galaxy.winemaker
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///boldest.dame.subtitle
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///irritate.refills.performed
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///ruby.oath.shrimp
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///angel.firepower.cascaded
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///recur.dreamers.horses
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///soft.makes.gosh
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///acids.invent.piglets
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///cared.cubs.clash
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///coining.promoting.panic
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///quicksand.success.lifters
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///float.pilots.barks
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///healers.dirt.begin
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///best.atomic.tested
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///nuance.thundered.earth
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///safest.songbirds.spoil
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///introduce.known.ember
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///sunsets.blown.intend
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///tumble.witty.covers
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///inflamed.chats.poetic
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///masks.songbook.highways
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///tint.pilots.joyously
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)
///coffee.obstruct.magma
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///violinist.ferrying.cornfield
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///excavate.windy.foggy
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///shudders.otherwise.clings
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///javelin.symphonic.seashell
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///skims.distorts.logged
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (35 x 27cm)
///wonderful.volcano.gravitate
Cyanotype on watercolour paper (60 x 40cm)