BIO
Lisa Buckland is a Melbourne-based visual artist working across acrylic, watercolour, sumi ink and digital drawing. Her practice explores identity, human connection, and the inner psyche through the symbolic language of the natural world. Deeply personal, her storytelling draws on lived experience, using evocative imagery of wildlife and flora to inspire a sense of wonder while reflecting on the fragility of our environment and the impact of climate change on native species.
Her colourful, lyrical, and subtly whimsical works are influenced by Japanese aesthetics and woodblock traditions, informed by a background in graphic design, screen printing, and photography. Prioritising colour and expressive mark-making over realism, she uses Asian brushes to create fluid, gestural lines that convey movement and emotion.
While she has embraced digital drawing in recent years, water-based mediums have remained central to her practice for over four decades. Her recent works include highly stylised painted landscapes of family history and digital public art commissions. Her current body of work reflects on the fading of beauty, transience and resilience, shaped by her experience with chronic kidney disease, using a palette of blues alongside recurring motifs of birds and blossoming trees.
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Born in 1961, Melbourne, Australia
Resides and works in Westmeadows, Melbourne, Australia
Education/Training
1979 TOP Art and Design, Footscray Technical College
1980 – 1982 Diploma of Design, RMIT (formally Phillip Institute of Technology)
2006 – 2008 Japanese Calligraphy with artist Junko Azukawa
2013 – 2017 What I Didn't Learn At Art School, The Art Room, Footscray
2020 Open Studio, Second Term with Mentor Erika Gofton, The Art Room, Footscray
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Shared Spaces (No. 2), Brimbank Projection Gallery, Sunshine
2023 Gold Mountain, Sunbury Gallery, Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury
2022 Secret Forest, Crown Street Stables, Flemington
2021 Lost & Found, Town Hall Broadmeadows Gallery, Broadmeadows
Group Exhibitions
2024 The Kilmore Art Expo, Kilmore, Victoria
2023 Hume Winter Lights Festival, Town Hall Broadmeadows Precinct, Broadmeadows
2022 Hot Spot Community Exhibition, Gee Lee-Wik Doleen Gallery, Craigieburn
2021 Counihan Gallery Summer Show, Brunswick
2020 Counihan Gallery Summer Show, Brunswick
2018 A1 Darebin Art Salon, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora
2018 Warranwood Art Show, Oak Hall Warranwood
2018 Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon
2015 I'd Like A Word With You, ARS Upstairs At The Napier, Fitzroy
2015 Summer Show, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick
2013 Surf Coast Arts Artspot Exhibition, Airey’s Inlet
2011 Japan Culture Festival, Collingwood
2011 Poetic Pieces Art Exhibition, Eagles Nest Fine Art Gallery, Airey’s Inlet
2010 Innerscapes Exhibition, Adrianakis Fitzroy Gallery, Fitzroy
2010 Come! Sit! Stay! ARS Upstairs @ The Napier, Fitzroy
2008 Christmas Card Exhibition, ARS Upstairs @ The Napier, Fitzroy
2008 Japanese Consulate-General of Japan, Melbourne
2004 Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, Melbourne
Public Art
2025 Merrifield Public Art Program, Mickleham
2024 Craigieburn Road Legacy Art Trail, Craigieburn
2023 The Feeling Of Hope, Christmas Decal, Town Hall Precinct, Broadmeadows
2023 Migration Nation, Exeloo Project, Jack Roper Reserve East, Broadmeadows
2023 Shared Spaces, Hume Winter Lights Festival, Town Hall Precinct, Broadmeadows
Collections
Lisa Buckland is collected by various private collectors in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart and
country Victoria, Australia
Awards
2018 Highly Commended, Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon
Residencies
2022 Gee Lee-Wik Doleen Gallery, Craigieburn
Grants
2022 Creative Activity Grant, Hume City Council
Selected Press and Publications
2025 Northern Star Weekly 4/9/2025, ‘Eye-catching community art’ News Article
2025 Northern Star Weekly 18/.2/2025, ‘Roadside signal boxes exhibit local artwork’ News Article
2024 Brimbank Star Weekly 4/4/2024, ‘Artistry illuminates Brimbank’ News Article
2022 ‘Secret Forest (detail)’ Front cover, What’s On A5 Booklet, Moonee Valley Libraries
2022 ‘Hopeful’ Original Painting, DL Greeting Card, Ros Spence, Minister & MP for Yuroke