About.
Lisa received her BFA in Ceramics from Alfred University and her MFA in Ceramics and Mixed Media Sculpture from Pennsylvania State University. She was awarded the Summer SIX Fellowship from Skidmore College in 1997 &1998 and taught Fine Art at Ossining High School in New York where she developed an extensive ceramic curriculum.
Since moving to the UK in 1999, She has continued to work as both a practicing ceramic artist and educator. She was a member of Fireworks Clay Studios from 2000 until September 2023 recently moving to a larger space in number 21 Tudor Lane.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions, contributing to various publications, leading workshops in schools and community groups and has undertaken residencies. She has also worked on a number of commissions, including work for the British Television series Sherlock Holmes and most recently for the Maggie's Centre in Cardiff. She received an Arts Council Development Grant in 2005 and the Gold Medal for Craft and Design at the National Eisteddfod in 2016. Her work has recently been purchased by the Contemporary Art Society for the Contemporary Ceramics Collection at the National Museum Wales.
Lisa's functional ceramic sculptures explore and develop forms that are found in modern and brutalist construction. Investigating the relationship between form and architecture. building stacked ware that when deconstructed introduces theatre to both individual and communal dining.
Each stacked tower makes visual reference to the stark architectural buildings that have inspired its form and a metaphorical reference to the philosophies inherent in designs for a social utopia.
