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.
I make spaces, installations with sound and objects spilling out or places to rest and reflect. Using found, collected and crafted objects and combining text, sound, moving image and objects to tell a story.
I start with collecting and accumulating, then I stitch, print and craft; slow processes that let me think. Ceramic rememberings, a weighted quilt filled with pebbles, moving image with fragmented narrative, the sound of voice and the sea. I combine all of these elements to make or find meaning and use writing as a way to work out how I feel, to bring the story together.
The work has a tactile, material presence. Found fabrics, archival tape, wooden objects, pebbles. Things reused and reworked. It suggests the passage of time, heavy with association. There’s a visual order, things arranged aesthetically and precisely. Grids appear frequently. There is performance to camera, ‘archival’ gestures - collect-sort-categorise-store with a playful quality. And there's a particular palette, the colour of old documents, oxidised metals and faded textiles, mixed with vibrant, softened colours. Dusty rose, teal, soft blues, oranges and deep earthy tones. Soft and bright. The colours of dreams and memories. The sound is subtle, beds of drone like pebbles crashing to the sea, dreamlike resonant sounds, meditative and thoughtful.
I use writing to uncover another layer to the work and I think about archives and bodies, materiality, memory and personal narrative. Considering how objects are charged, how loss and grief can be symbolised in objects and how archival systems or gestures can be used as a framework for practice and to understand emotions.
Artwork
The Organised Body, Two channel film, screenprint on textiles, found objects, quilted blanket, archival tape, sound, 2024
Monument (in memory of), Digitally printed fabric, found fabric, rope and wood, embroidery, fringing, and appliqué, 2024
The Weight of it All, Quilted, embroidered, blanket containing collected pebbles, reworked telephone seat, printed fabric,, 2024
Permission to Breathe, Cut up texts from archiving guidelines on accessioning and deaccessioning objects. Photocopier colla, 2023
Everything I Didn’t Want, Porcelain, moving image (01:29) collected pebbles, narration, 2023
Holding Pattern, Collage/ photographic print, 2022
Anything could come out of that egg!, 2020
The Sea was my Delight, Video loop, 2019/2020
All true Histories, Screenprint and embroidery on vintage handkerchiefs, 2019/2020
Something is always far away, Emulsion on board, 2019/2020
Good Luck Charm, Photographed assemblage, hand bound using Turkish map fold and housed in a protective box., 2018
Current studio practice, Sculpture, Screen print, 2018 - 2020
Photographic works, 2015 -2017
Aquisition Preserve, 2017
Painting the town, 2016
Bricks, 2016
Our Streets, Stop Motion Animation, 2016
The earth runs red, Found objects, Iron Ore pigment, 2016
A different kind of map, Found objects, paint, 2015
Projects and exhibitions
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Interim Group Show01/04/2024 — 08/04/2024 |
The Birley, Preston | Details |
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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 |