Bio
UNSW Art, Design & Architecture
Bachelor of Fine Art
Artist
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https://www.theloop.com.au/Beanie/portfolio/Graphic-Designer/Sydney
Lisa Ellen Hughes is a multi-disciplined emerging, Newcastle-based artist who graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNSW Art & Design. Her mediums of specialty are in animation, illustration, drawing, digital/video art, and painting and installation art. Lisa’s research investigates various constraints of nature versus human. These ecological habitats and human existence, mirror social behaviours and the notion of the survival of the fittest within a habitat. Her technique of layering and thin think painting style gives depth to the narrative of material.
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She translates urban and natural landscapes to envelope the essence of intermixed textured surfaces, symbolism, and the poetic interpretation of an abstract fluidity. A conversation is created with works embodying marks left by humans on structures, pavements, and nature. Recording the memory and process of destructive intervention and communication left in the environment.
Achievements
2022 - Life in Colour – LGBTQ+ Art prize – Winner Category A (Experienced and Professional Artist)
2021 Macquarie Group Emerging Artist -The Land & its Psyche - Awarded the OAM Nick Waterlow Highly Commended
2020 Jenny Birt Award UNSW Art & Design - Highly Commended
2012 - Winner Hodges Creative Award - Royal Queensland Art Society.
2010 - Highly Commended- Traditional Section - Drummoyne Art Prize.
2010 - Highly Commended - Traditional Section - Lane Cove Art Prize
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Acquisitions
Wally's Wharf - by Macquarie Group
Solo and Group Art Exhibitions
2023 – Bold and the beautiful – joint exhibition
2022 – Unabbreviated – Newcastle Museum - Group Exhibition
2022 "Yellow" M.A.D.S Art Gallery Italy Milan - Group Exhibition
2021 "In good company" Gaffa Art Gallery - Group Annual Graduation show
2021 "Utopian Expansion" solo exhibition - The Art Passage
2010, 2012, 2013 Group Show, 307 Art Gallery North Bridge Sydney
2009 "Group Grope Show" - Ma Gallery Surry Hills
2018 "My Happy Place", Manly Art Collab 19th Nov - 3rd Dec 2018
Finalist in Art Prizes
2022 - Life in Colour – LGBTQ+ Art prize
2022 - Art/Edit + interior design Self represented artist prize - Finalist
2021 - Macquarie Group Emerging Artist -The Land & its Psyche - Awarded the OAM Nick Waterlow Highly Commended
2021 Waverley Art School Print Prize - Finalist
2021 Gallipoli Art Prize - Finalist
2020 Burwood Art Prize
2020 Jenny Birt Award UNSW Art & Design - Highly Commended
2019 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize
2019 Waverley Art Prize
2016 Art in the Hills Art Prize
2015 Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Alan Somerville
2015 The Kings Art Prize
2015 Mosman Art Prize - Judge Michael Rolfe, Chief Executive Officer, Museums and Galleries NSW
2015 Hunters Hill Art Prize
2015 Art in the Hills
2014 Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Nick Vickers
2014 The Kings Art Prize
2013 WWAS Palette Show
2013 Northbridge art prize
2013 Waverley Art Prize
2013 Hunters Hill Art Prize
2012 Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Anne Cape and Alan Somerville
2011 Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Wendy Sharpe
2009 Mosman Art Prize - Judge Margaret Olley AC
2008 Waverley Art prize
2009 Alvaro Art Prize Bowral Art Society
2007, 2009 John Copes Watercolour Art Prize Bowral Art Society
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