Elspeth Pratt (born 1953)[1] is a Canadian contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Pratt is best known for her colorful sculptures using "poor" materials such as cardboard, polystyrene, balsa wood and vinyl, and for her interest in leisure and consumerism in domestic and public spaces.
[2][3][4] Her use of humble, crude, unusual materials has sometimes been compared to the Arte Povera movement.
[7] She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
[13] In 2011, the Charles H. Scott Gallery and Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery co-published a monograph on Pratt's work, with essays by Lorna Brown, Lisa Robertson, Matthew Stadler, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Oliver Neumann, and Stephanie Snyder.