Lisa Risbec West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
West Yorkshire based visual artist. Alongside my practice I work in an archive as Imaging Assistant. I worked as a creative facilitator, mentor, curator & researcher for 10 years, for orgs such as Cartwheel Arts, Pool Arts and ARC. Recently studied MA in Fine Art working with themes of materiality, memory, archival practice, personal histories and collecting.
My work is about putting things together, working with found materials and objects; collected, accumulated and combined. It's also about systems of organising and arranging, memory and how objects relate to our emotions and bodies. Influenced by the archive that I work in, I am interested in the way objects are collected, stored, handled, and categorised - often finding myself performing these actions again and again in my work life. I translate these gestures into ways of making artwork, using the idea of collection and reorganisation as ritual and performance.
During the past two years I have been working with my accumulated archive; retelling stories using techniques such as quilting and embroidery combined with found objects, print, ceramics, performance, moving image, sound and text. Reflecting on how objects are charged and can symbolise loss/grief and how archival systems or gestures could be used as a framework for practice.
Artwork
A different kind of map, Found objects, paint, 2015
The earth runs red, Found objects, Iron Ore pigment, 2016
Our Streets, Stop Motion Animation, 2016
Bricks, 2016
Painting the town, 2016
Aquisition Preserve, 2017
Photographic works, 2015 -2017
Current studio practice, Sculpture, Screen print, 2018 - 2020
Good Luck Charm, Photographed assemblage, hand bound using Turkish map fold and housed in a protective box., 2018
Something is always far away, Emulsion on board, 2019/2020
All true Histories, Screenprint and embroidery on vintage handkerchiefs, 2019/2020
The Sea was my Delight, Video loop, 2019/2020
Anything could come out of that egg!, 2020
Holding Pattern, Collage/ photographic print, 2022
Everything I Didn’t Want, Paper, cardboard, porcelain, video, pebbles, photographic print, 2023
Permission to Breathe, Cut up texts from archiving guidelines on accessioning and deaccessioning objects. Photocopier colla, 2023
Object drawings, found objects, paper, ceramics, stones, fabric, 2023
Projects and exhibitions
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What? Why? How?30/11/2023 — 14/12/2023 Group show with Artist BERT |
PR1 Gallery, Preston | Details |
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Holding Pattern29/04/2022 — 12/06/2022 Holding Pattern features a selection of collaged and constructed drawings, produced by Lisa Risbec over the last four years. The works range from minimalist still lives, created using found fragments of colour and texture and transformed into limited edition digital collages, to pieces that begin to transfer these ideas into a 3D form. With a... [Read more] |
Imaginary Wines, Todmorden | Details |
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Postcards from the Futuro01/11/2020 — ongoing Exhibition featuring 6 artists plus archival material exploring the Futuro house one of which was situated in Todmorden. |
Todmorden information centre, Todmorden | Details |
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The Anne Brontë Exhibition05/01/2020 Exhibition at South Square commemorating Anne's bicentenary. Four artists and two schools produced contemporary responses to Anne's life and work. |
South Square arts centre, Bradford | Details |
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The Art of Magic exhibition12/02/2017 Presented by Folklore Tapes and The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. This was an exhibition and performance based on missing artefacts once found in the archive of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. Thirty contemporary artists imaginatively re-scored and re-stored these mysteriously lost magical charms, tools and spells through video,... [Read more] |
Touring, Todmorden, London, Boscastle, Exeter | Details |
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The earth runs red05/06/2016 Doremifasolasido Residency: Florence Mine, Egremont During the summer of 2016 I took part in this Artist-led group residency that takes place each year at different art centres across rural Cumbria. Culminating in an exhibition. |
Florence arts centre, Egremont | Details |
A different kind of map13/09/2015 The work was created during a residency at Regents Trading Estate as part of Islington Mill Art Academy, where I found myself working in direct response to the space around the warehouse. The area is in transition, with developments springing up, unused land being cleared and talks about what the area will be used for. I found myself... [Read more] |
Nexus gallery window space, Manchester | Details | |
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Islington Mill Art Academy residency11/05/2014 |
Islington Mill, Salford | Details |