Approved: 16.08.2006

Lisa Stansbie

Artist, Lecturer / academic

Approved: 16.08.2006

Lisa Stansbie is an artist whose work crosses the disciplines of film, sculpture, installation, photography and digital practices. Stansbie has undertaken residencies and exhibited Internationally. Stansbie’s films have been shown at galleries, non-art venues and festivals all the way from from Bury, U.K to New York.

Recent work investigates the narratives, processes, rituals and apparatus of endurance sport, in particular open water swimming. Her solo exhibition Nothing Great Is Easy at Platform Arts, Belfast in September 2014 was the result of two years of work and research into channel swimming and its relationship to the practices of making and performing artworks. She continues to produce collages which are fictional machines for moving through water. To date she has made 70 Swimming Machines collages.

Her work Swimming Machine (2015) and Swimming Apparatus Costume (2015) were shown at Huddersfield Art Gallery from October 2015 until January 2016. Both pieces are based on 19th century patent designs that were never constructed. The patents were for objects that would assist in teaching people to swim.

She was joint founder and editor (with Derek Horton) for 16 editions of www.soanyway.org.uk an experimental online magazine project centred around notions of narrative and storytelling. 

Her PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University Zeppelinbend: Multiplicity, encyclopaedic strategies and nonlinear methodologies for a visual practice was completed in 2010 and exists solely as a website www.zeppelinbend.com

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Artist Statement

Lisa Stansbie is an artist whose work crosses the disciplines of film, sculpture, installation, photography and digital practices. Stansbie has undertaken residencies and exhibited Internationally. Stansbie’s films have been shown at galleries, non-art venues and festivals all the way from from Bury, U.K to New York.

Recent work investigates the narratives, processes, rituals and apparatus of endurance sport, in particular open water swimming. Her solo exhibition Nothing Great Is Easy at Platform Arts, Belfast in September 2014 was the result of two years of work and research into channel swimming and its relationship to the practices of making and performing artworks. She continues to produce collages which are fictional machines for moving through water. To date she has made 70 Swimming Machines collages.

Her work Swimming Machine (2015) and Swimming Apparatus Costume (2015) were shown at Huddersfield Art Gallery from October 2015 until January 2016. Both pieces are based on 19th century patent designs that were never constructed. The patents were for objects that would assist in teaching people to swim.

She was joint founder and editor (with Derek Horton) for 16 editions of www.soanyway.org.uk an experimental online magazine project centred around notions of narrative and storytelling. 

Her PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University Zeppelinbend: Multiplicity, encyclopaedic strategies and nonlinear methodologies for a visual practice was completed in 2010 and exists solely as a website www.zeppelinbend.com

Stansbie is Dean of The School of Art, Architecture and Design at Leeds Beckett University, 

CV & Education

Education

2010 PhD, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds

2004 MA Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds

1997 BA Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds


Selected Solo Shows

2014 Nothing Great Is Easy, Platform Arts, Belfast

2012 Flight, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield

2010 Totemic Objects, Axis Art Centre: Open Space, Crewe

2009 The Wings, Vyner Street Gallery, London

2009 Hackamore, Window, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2007 The Zeppelin Bend, Alsager Arts Centre, Alsager, U.K


Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 Paint Her to Your Own Mind Shandy Hall Gallery, York, Constantaine Gallery, Teeside University and &Model Gallery, Leeds. 

2015 Thought Positions in Sculpture. Huddersfield Art Gallery. 

2014 /seconds (Swimming Machines) Sharjah Art Foundation, Building I SAF Art Spaces, UAE.

2014 Spitfire Beach: Background to a Film as part of Alan Dunn's The Beach at (h)ear XL II, Multimedia SoundArt Exhibition curated by Mike Kramer Kunstencentrum Signe, Heerlen, Netherlands.

2012 Diaphone, Film Commission for Outcasting: Fourth Wall, Old Library Building, Cardiff

2012 Channel Swimwear Rules, HMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California

2011 A Century of Artists Film Oriel Mwldan, Wales

2011 Portmanteau Halle 14/g39, Leipzig, Germany

2011 Hunter Gatherer Project Space Leeds

2010 Archetype:GOING UNDERGROUND/THE CRUEL SCENE OF THE IMAGE, E:vent Gallery, London

2010 Borders/Crossings/Journeys Screening, Project Space Leeds, Leeds

2010 Art For Everyone, Arts Council England, Great Peters Street London

2010 Short Cuts, g39, Cardiff, Wales

2009 InCounter, Campbell Works, London

2009 Pan-demonium, AC Institute, Chelsea, New York

2009 The Text Festival: Poetry Film, The Met Arts Centre, Bury

2009 Outcasting Season 7, online, www.outcasting.org

2008 Art Tech Media: International Screen Space, Palacio de Orive - Filmoteca de Andalucía - VIMCORSA, Cordoba, Spain

2008 Art Tech Media, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

2008 Purescreen: Hearsay, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

2008 Olympolis, Platamons Castle, Pieria, Greece

2008 Sonic Boom, The PictureDrome, Huddersfield

2007 Siberia International Film, Siberia Project Space, Hackney, London

2007 Archive H, Harris Museum, Preston UK, Invited artist for Prestival 'Artist Interventions Across The City'

2007 Athens Video Art Festival 2007, Multiple locations across Athens, Athens, Greece 

2007 Odoo/Current, National Museum of Art, Ulanbataar, Mongolia

2007 6 from 4, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds, UK