Elizabeth Waggett (b. 1984) is a British visual artist born in Manchester and based in the United States, working between the U.S. and Europe. Her multidisciplinary practice explores time, labor, memory, and material transformation through layered paintings and immersive installations. Combining oil paint with precious metals, antique textiles, oxidized surfaces, and light, Waggett creates richly tactile works that evolve through abrasion, chemical reaction, and changing illumination. Her materials often reference Manchester’s industrial textile heritage, carrying traces of touch, craftsmanship, and human history. Moving between figuration, still life, and abstraction, her work examines the tension between beauty and decay, permanence and change, strength and vulnerability. Waggett studied Fashion and Design at the University of Manchester and Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, and her work has been exhibited internationally in cities including New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles.