Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, writer, artist and maker whose work explores fairy tales, horror, eerie landscapes and collaborative storytelling.
Following a PhD in comparative medieval literature and a practice-based Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship tracing fairy tales set in forests across languages, cultures and media, she now works across academia, the arts and public engagement to stage imaginative participatory events, interventions and installations, whether making statues talk or turning Anna Freud's bedroom into an uncanny immersive space filled with magic mirrors .
Organisations she has worked with include the Freud Museum London, Fáilte Ireland, the Wellcome Collection, Being Human, the Bloomsbury Festival, Upstart Theatre, Treadwell's Books, Leeds Libraries, and the National Archives.