Approved: 10.02.2013

Lisa Sheppy

Artist, Lecturer / academic, Maker, Researcher, Writer

Approved: 10.02.2013

Lisa Sheppy has just submitted her doctoral study, An industrial craft reinstated: A printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware. The study was designed to investigate an obsolete industrial craft; tissue transferware, with an aim to reinstate it through the lens of contemporary printmaking. The new method does not replace the original industrial craft but serves as a contemporary interpretation of it. The research has been materialised through a series of art works, produced with a palette of tools and materials familiar to artists working in the fields of printmaking and ceramics. This new method is open, accessible and within reach of future artists to realise its creative potential.

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Artist Statement

Lisa Sheppy has just submitted her doctoral study, An industrial craft reinstated: A printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware. The study was designed to investigate an obsolete industrial craft; tissue transferware, with an aim to reinstate it through the lens of contemporary printmaking. The new method does not replace the original industrial craft but serves as a contemporary interpretation of it. The research has been materialised through a series of art works, produced with a palette of tools and materials familiar to artists working in the fields of printmaking and ceramics. This new method is open, accessible and within reach of future artists to realise its creative potential.

Lisa has a BA (Hons) Fine Art (BCU) first class, an MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking (UWE) distinction and commenced her full time PhD study at the CFPR in 2017. She was awarded the Glass Seller Prize at the 2010 British Glass Biennale and has exhibited subsequent works across the UK in galleries and site sensitive historic locations. This includes; The Brontë Parsonage Museum; Yorkshire, The RWA; Bristol, The London Glass Blowing Gallery, The National Trust’s Croome Court and Bilston Craft Gallery; the historical home of enamel transfer printing.

Lisa’s art practice involves working with materials and processes akin to craft, with printmaking at the centre. Her research interests are initiated with responses to the overlooked and obsolete from which she reveals new meanings.

CV & Education

Born    Hertfordshire, UK

 

Education and Qualifications

2017 - 2021    Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol

Practice-Based PhD 3D3 Centre for Doctoral Training, AHRC Funded    

 

UWE, Bristol

MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking

Distinction

University College Worcester

Post Graduate Diploma in Education

Birmingham Institute of Art and Design

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting

First class

Blackburn College of Art

Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

 

 

Competitions, Awards and Prizes

2015       2015 British Glass Biennale. Selected artist

2013       Black Swan Arts Open Competition

2010       Glass Sellers Student prize at British Glass Biennale

2009       Rebecca Smith Fine Art Prize awarded by UWE

2009       Royal West of England Academy, 7th Open Print Exhibition, ‘Galleries Magazine’ Student Prize

Chosen by Professor Paul Gough, Executive Dean for Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE

 

 

Current Memberships

Contemporary Glass Society

Spike Print Studio, Bristol

Axis the online resource for contemporary art

 

Solo Exhibitions

2015      'Prema', Uley, Stroud, Gloucestershire

2014      Public Commission, ‘Art for Life’ ITU Musgrove Park Hospital,  Taunton

2011     ‘Charlotte’s Dress’, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire

2010     ‘Charlotte’s Dress’, Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers, Mansion House, London.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2015      2015 British Glass Biennale, Stourbridge, West Midlands. Selected artist.

2014     ‘Soul to Sole’, Croome Redefined, The National Trust, Croome, Worcestershire.

2014     Charingworth House, Winchcombe Art Trial, The Cotswolds

2013    ’Ways of Seeing’ ‘Art for Life’, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

2013     Winds of Change Gallery, Winchcombe, The Cotwolds.

2013    The Quartz Festival, Queens College, Taunton, Somerset

2013    ’Craftsense’ Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton. (‘Lost Pockets’, until September 2014)

2013    Grow! Pop Up! The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

2013    Spike Open Print Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

2013     Affordable Garden Art Competition and Exhibition, Showborough House, Gloucestershire

2013     Black Swan Arts Open Competition, Frome, Somerset

2013     “Re-Visioning the Brontës’ University of Leeds, Speaker

2012     ‘Wildness Between Lines’, Leeds College of Art

2011     Showborough House Garden Exhibition, Showborough, Gloucestershire

2011     ‘Glass Wear 2011,’ London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey, London

2011     ‘The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, with Spike Print Studio

2011     ‘Heavenly Sent’ London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey, London

2010     ‘Essence’ Selected artist London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey, London

2010     British Glass Biennale, selected artist, Stourbridge; Prize winner

2010     Selected work for contemporary glass display, Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery

2010     Spike Open Exhibition, Spike Print Studio, Bristol

2009     ‘Impact 6’ UWE, Bristol

2009    Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 7th Open Print Exhibition; Prize winner

2009    ‘Rising Stars’, Studio Fusion Gallery, Oxo Building, London

2009    MA Degree Show, Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking, UWE, Bristol

2008    23rd Mini-Print Exhibition, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Bristol

2008    Worcestershire Artists, The Guildhall, Worcester

2006    ‘Bookmarks Five’, UWE, Bristol

2005    Fusion Group, Worcester

2005    Fusion Group, Ludlow

 

Publications

2015     '2015 British Glass Biennale', exhibition catalogue

2012    ‘Wildness Between Lines’ exhibition catalogue

2010    ‘2010 British Glass Biennale’ exhibition catalogue

 

Current Teaching 

From 2013 - Birmingham City University International College, Bournville, Birmingham.

Lead tutor for Pre-Masters Art and Design for International students progressing to pathways at Birmingham City University.

 

Teaching Experience

2005-2012 School of Art and Design, Worcester College of Technology, Worcester

Course Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

 

2001-2004 Malvern College, Malvern, Worcestershire

Course Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

 

1992-2004 School of Art and Design, Worcester College of Technology, Worcester

Fine Art Lecturer on the Foundation Diploma, National Diploma Art and Design and HND Courses.

 

1990-92 Art practice based at the Custard Factory, Birmingham.

Artist in residence at a number of schools and workshop leader for community arts projects in Worcestershire and Birmingham