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Lisa Buckland is a Melbourne based visual artist working with acrylic, watercolour and sumi ink. Engaged with shaping a unique arts practice informed by her experience in graphic design, screen printing and photography. Lisa’s influences come from the Rinpa / Nihonga Schools of Japanese fine art, with Japanese graphic design, kanji calligraphy and Chinese brush painting.
Her work examines identity, the connection to family and place, birds and animals to nature. Lisa photographs plants, flowers and trees throughout the seasons, telling their stories and their symbiotic relationships with pollinators. Lisa paints within this talisman of nature, her colour and mark-making is prioritised over realistic representation. Repetition and pattern bring a sense of movement to her work of poignant imagery and whimsy. Through wildlife and flora she aims to share the beauty and connection of the natural world, while evoking a response to the impacts of climate change and the vulnerability to extinction we all share.
Lisa has exhibited in many group exhibitions and has works held in private collections. She is currently painting landscapes of colonial gold mining and her family legacy in Harrietville, north east Victoria. This body of work will show in Lisa’s third solo exhibition ‘Gold Mountain’ in November 2023, at Sunbury Gallery, Hume Global Learning Centre Sunbury.
The artist in situ at Secret Forest solo exhibition, Crown Street Stables, Flemington. August, 2022
STUDIES | Diploma of Design, RMIT (formally Phillip Institute of Technology) Japanese Calligraphy, with Japanese artist Junko Azukawa
AWARDS | 2018 Highly Commended, Moonee Valley Art Show, Essendon
PUBLICATIONS | 2022 ‘Hopeful’ Front cover for DL Greeting Card, Ros Spence MP for Yuroke | 2022 ‘Secret Forest (detail)’ Front cover, Spring What’s On A5 Booklet, Moonee Valley Libraries
COLLECTIONS | Held in private collections, Melbourne, Sydney and regional Victoria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | 2022 Secret Forest, Crown Street Stables, Flemington 2020 – 2021 Lost & Found, Town Hall Broadmeadows Gallery, Broadmeadows
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | 2023 Hume Winter Lights Festival, Town Hall 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 Entry 2015, Brunswick Arts 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 | 2004 Anglesea Annual Art & Craft Show, Anglesea | 2004 Airey’s Inlet Art Show, Airey’s Inlet | 2003 Anglesea Annual Art & Craft Show, Anglesea | 2002 Anglesea Annual Art & Craft Show, Anglesea | 2002 Airey’s Inlet Art Show, Airey’s Inlet