Overview
Hello, I'm Lisa.
I'm a Visiting Tutor on MA Illustration and MA Fine Art. My practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, photography, performance and film. I am interested in questioning the female artist’s body, as a site for transformation and for the creation of fresh narratives. I am curious about the potent and powerful relationship between landscape, the maternal body and the act of creativity. Outcomes are often simultaneously absurd, humorous and poignant.
Selected Solo Two and Three Person Exhibitions |2023| The Non Fluid Body, spudWORKS, Sway |2019| Within and Between: Women, Bodies, Generations, Glass Tank Gallery, Oxford |2006| Paraphernalia, APT, Deptford, London |2004| Personified Breath, The Study Gallery of Contemporary Art, Poole
Selected Group Exhibitions |2024| Glitterama, spudWORKS, Sway |2022| Interwoven, spudWORKS, Sway |2019| Drawn to Dorset, Fine Foundation Gallery, Swanage |2019| Mechanical Human Matter, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth |2018| I am the space that I am, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth |2007| Meeting Place, The Russell-Cotes Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth |1995| Domestic, Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham |1993| Acting Out the Body in Video: Then and Now, Royal College of Art, London |1992| New Contemporaries, ICA, London |1992| Barclays Young Artist of the Year, Serpentine Gallery, London
Qualifications
Qualifications
- 1989–91 Postgraduate Higher Diploma, The Slade School of Art, UCL
- 1986–89 1st Class BA (Hons) Fine Art, Cheltenham School of Art, GLOSCAT
- 1985–86 Foundation Diploma, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design
Teaching Qualification
- 2003 Teaching Certificate City and Guilds Stage 2
- 2001–02 Teaching Certificate City and Guilds Stage 1
Teaching
- 2018–22, MFA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University
- 2017–24 Course Leader MA Illustration, Senior Lecturer, AUB
- 2013–17 External Examiner BA Illustration and Visual Media, London College of Communication, UAL
- 2009–17 Course Leader BA (Hons) Illustration, Principle Lecturer, AUB
- 2006–17 MA Supervisor, Illustration, Fine Art, Photography and Costume Pathways,
- 2006–09 Senior Lecturer, Level 6 Co-ordinator BA (Hons) Fine Art, AUB
- 2004–06 Acting Course Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art, AUB
- 2001–06 Senior Lecturer, Level 4 Co-ordinator, BA (Hons) Fine Art, AUB
- 2000–01 Visiting Lecturer, GNVQ, Art and Design, AUB
- 1992 Guest lecturer at Camberwell School of Art, UAL
- 1992 Guest lecturer at The Slade School of Art, UCL
Courses
Research
Research Interests and Projects
My work emerges from the domestic space, the Dorset landscape and my garden. I collect, combine and adapt found objects. I use additional materials to re-purpose, re-imagine and establish fresh readings. Household textiles, objects and familial paraphernalia are transformed into oversized theatrical garments, inflatable weapons and semi-surgical prosthesis. Like feminist artists before me, I utilise processes and techniques historically associated with women’s domestic confinement, such as drawing, sewing, knitting and embroidery. I use my body as a site of transformation through performance to activate the objects to create new meanings and associations around re-enactment, the female body and staging.
Solo:
- 2004 Personified Breath, The Study Gallery of Contemporary Art, Poole
Two Person:
- 2023 The Non-Fluid Body, Lisa Richardson and Dr Fran Norton, spudWORKS, Sway
- 2006 Paraphernalia, Lisa Richardson and Debra Swann APT, London
Three Person:
- 2019 Within and Between : Women, Bodies, Generations, The Glass Tank Gallery Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Group:
- 2024 Glitterama, spudWORKS, Sway
- 2019 Interwoven, spudWORKS, Sway
- 2019 Drawn to Dorset : Fifty Drawings, Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston, Swanage
- 2018 I am the space that I am, TheGallery, AUB
- 2014 Interpretation, Re-interpretation, Mis-interpretation, TheGallery, AUB
- 2007 Meeting Place, Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and Text+Work AUB
- 1994 Acting Out the Body in Video: Then and Now, The Royal College of Art, London
- 1993 BT New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
- 1992 Empty Gestures, Barclays Young Artist of the Year, Serpentine Gallery, London
Related Publications
- 2019 Drawing on Dorset, Dorset Visual Arts, ISBN978-1-5272-4967-7
- 2019 Within and Between : Women, Bodies, Generations, Oxford Brookes University ISBN 978-1-9165043-3-2
- 2007 Meeting Place, Text+Work AUB ISBN 978-0-901196-20-0
- 2006 Paraphernalia, including essay by Dr. Alison Sleeman (Slade, UCL) ‘Nonsense upon stilts’ ISBN 0-901196-11-8
- 1994 Acting Out the Body in Video: Then and Now, The Royal College of Art, London RCA ISBN 1-874-17560-8
- 1993 BT New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London ISBN 0-9515556-2-6
- 1992 Empty Gestures, Barclays Young Artist of the Year, Serpentine Gallery, London, ISBN 1-870814-41-X
My Research Gallery
Professional Engagement
- 2021 Materiality, Space and Embodiment, Symposium, University of Bergen
- 2020 Thinking Through Drawing, Symposium, The UWE Drawing Research Group in collaboration with the Visual Communication Department at Birmingham City University, UK
- 2019 Art Historians Conference, Brighton University
- 2017 Silversmithing Short Course, AUB
- 2013 Leadership and Management Training, AUB
- 2011 International Perspectives in Art and Design, Leeds School of Art
- 2008 The Animal Gaze, Symposium, London Metropolitan University
- 2004 Drawing Quarters, Symposium, Advanced Centre for Drawing (a.c.i.d), UWE, Bristol
- 2003 Drawing the Process, Symposium, Kingston University
- 2002 CLTAD Working in Groups
Awards and Prizes
| Award Name | Date Awarded | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Selected for BT New Contemporaries | 1993 | |
| Barclays Young Artist of the Year Award | 1992 |
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Fellow (FHEA)