Overview:
Overview:
Lisa Traxler combines painting and 3D form within her practice exploring associations with construction, assemblage and components. Her abstract work traverses the two and three dimensional divide and links the disciplines of painting and sculpture.
Her studio is a converted RAF war-time bunker on the Isle of Wight’s south coast.
Born in London, Traxler studied at Croydon Art College and Birmingham Polytechnic
graduating with a BA Hons Degree in Fashion and Textiles.
She is an elected member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Royal Waterclour Society.
www.lisatraxler.com
Biography:
LISA TRAXLER
Elected ARWS 2015 & RWS 2017
Born: London. Studied: Croydon Art College and Birmingham Polytechnic. Graduated BA Hons degree, Fashion & Textiles. Previous career in London as fashion editor (IPC Publications) and costume designer. Member of Royal Watercolour Society, Royal British Society of Sculptors, National Acrylic Painters Association.
Solo exhibition, 'BUILD' (paintings and assemblages) toured from the Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, ’Surface Matter’ Materials Gallery, London Fields, London Design Festival, WWII Radar Bunker, Isle of Wight during 2017.
Selected exhibitions include: ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, Royal College of Art, Cork Street, the Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, Bath Society of Artists, London Design Festival 2016 & 2017, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice, Italy, The Greenhouse, Berlin.
Awards include: Adrian Henri Award (2017), ProArte Award (2014), Colart Award (2012) Golden Award (2010) for paintings at NAPA National Exhibitions, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives. Shortlisted and published in Aesthetica Creative Art Award Annual (2012). The exterior vitreous enamel and steel mural she painted was featured on national television (Grand Designs, Channel 4, 2010/12) and commended by architect Will Alsop at the Architects Journal Awards, London (2011). A collaboration with furniture designer, Steuart Padwick featured a hand painted enamel and steel folding table exhibited at London Design Festival, 2016. www.lisatraxler.com
PROFILE Lisa Traxler ARWS was born in London where she studied at Croydon Art College and then on to Birmingham where she graduated with a BA Hons degree in Fashion & Textiles. For many years she worked in London as a fashion editor and costume designer before moving to the Isle of Wight. Lisa’s work includes: abstract paintings of acrylic & water based mediums on canvas & paper, stitched collages & installations, sculptures of vitreous enamel & steel.
Her award winning art has been exhibited widely in the UK including the RWS Bankside Gallery, Royal College of Art, Cork Street, Mall Galleries, London, the Crypt Gallery, St. Ives and with the Bath Society of Artists. She was recipient of the ProArte Award (2014), the Colart Award (2012) & the Golden Award (2010) for her paintings at the NAPA National Exhibitions, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives.
Her vitreous enamel and steel mural painted on the outside of the house she built with partner, designer Lincoln Miles, gained huge attention when aired on national television (Grand Designs, Channel 4, 2010/12) and was commended at the Architects Journal Awards, London (2011).
She is an Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society (elected 2015) & a member of NAPA (National Acrylic Painters Association) & has exhibited throughout the UK with them. She regularly exhibits at the Affordable Art Fairs in Hong Kong & London. Recent public art commissions include the multi panelled enamel and steel wall mural in the entrance foyer to the new Art & Design College, Stourbridge, West Midlands (2011). A large enamel and steel triptych situated in the double height space of the entrance foyer of Vestas Technology Centre, IW (2011), and a multi panelled folding wall at Briddlesford Education Centre, IW (2010). A further public art commission surface design was chosen for the ‘Making Waves’ sculpture & tourist trail, the National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth (2013).
A major solo exhibition of her paintings & sculptures, ‘Decade’ toured from the West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW (2014) to the Apthorp Gallery, Artsdepot, London (2015).
Two books have been written by the artist (‘DECADE’ & ‘LIVES OF SPACES’) with essays & foreword by Jonathan Parsons (artist) & Peter Davies (art critic & artist).
Her work can be found in private & public collections throughout the UK, Hong Kong, New York, Australia & Italy.
CURRICULUM VITAE Degree (B.A. hons) Fashion/Textiles (Birmingham) 1983-1986 Diploma Art & Design (Croydon) 1981-1983 Worked for many years in the fashion industry as a fashion editor (IPC Publishing) costume designer & stylist (London) Elected an Associate Member of the RWS (2015) Member of NAPA (National Acrylic Painters Association) since 2008
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014/15 ‘DECADE’ touring painting/sculpture West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW
Apthorp Gallery, Artsdepot, London
2012 ‘Lives of Spaces’ sculpture exhibition, West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW
2010 arc space @ aspex, Portsmouth, stitched collage installation
2009 gASP Gallery, Art Space Studio Award Exhibition, Portsmouth
2008-10 ‘Letters Home’ touring: Portsmouth Grammar School Residency
Eldon Gallery, University of Portsmouth, Hampshire
The Link Gallery, University of Winchester, Winchester
2007 ‘Crossing the Water’ Rope Store Gallery, Quay Arts, IW
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 ‘Space Interrupted’ Fort Brockhurst, English Heritage, Arts Council England, installation ‘Drawing Process’ West Gallery, Quay Arts RWS
‘Watercolour Etc.’ Group Show, elected Associate Member of RWS
RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
NAPA National Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
‘Art for Youth’ Mall Galleries, London
2014 NAPA National Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
‘Art for Youth’ Royal College of Art, Kensington, London
National Society, Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
2013 Bath Society of Artists Open Exhibition, Bath NAPA National Exhibition,
Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby, Yorkshire
National Society, Menier Gallery, Southwark, London
‘Freedom’s Road’ Aspex, Portsmouth, stitched collage
‘Chalk Talks’ Ryde Arts Festival, St. Thomas Church, IW, stitched collage
Cork Street Open Exhibition, Cork Street, London, stitched collage painting
‘Art for Youth’ Royal College of Art, Kensington, London
2012 ‘Open Water’ National Trust, Mottisfont House, Hampshire, sculptural stitched collage
‘360 A PANORAMA’ Quay Arts, IW, threaded geometric shapes installation
NAPA National Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, paintings
‘Portsmouth Calling’ Aspex, Portsmouth, stitched banner installation
Shortlisted, Beers.Lambert Contemporary, London, enamel & steel sculptures
‘Say What You See’ group relay exhibition, Aspex, Portsmouth
2011 ‘Drawing Connections’ Siena Art Institute, Italy
Pallant House Gallery Open Exhibition, Chichester, stitched collages
‘Art for Youth’ Royal College of Art, Kensington, London
NAPA Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Wirral, Merseyside
‘Relay’ installation, Quay Arts, IW & Aspace, Southampton
2010 NAPA National Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall ‘
‘HYDE 900′ Re-Imagining Hyde: Exhibition over three venues:
Winchester Cathedral. (paper & stitch installation, site specific)
City Space at The Discovery Centre, Winchester (stitched & painted diptych)
The Link Gallery, Winchester (stitch & collage installation)
2009 Art Liberating Lives’ Group Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
‘Re-Open’ Exhibition, Lighthouse Centre for the Arts, Poole
Cork Street Open Exhibition, 28 Cork Street, London
NAPA National Exhibition, View Two Gallery, Liverpool
2008 NAPA Exhibition, Obsidian Gallery, Buckinghamshire
2007 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
SELECTION & CURATING
2011 ‘Young Curators Island Open’ guest judge, West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2014 Recipient of the ProArte Award, NAPA, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives
2012 Recipient of Colart Award, NAPA, The Crypt Gallery, St.Ives
2011 Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Works Art Award
Architects Journal Magazine, Enamel Mural commended in A.J. Small Builds Awards
2010 Recipient of Golden Award, NAPA, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives
2009 Recipient of Art Space Portsmouth Sponsored Studio Award Residency
2008 Resident Artist, Portsmouth Grammar School, Portsmouth
NAPA Winsor & Newton Award, Buckinghamshire
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS
2015 Ventnor Botanic Gardens, IW large painting
2013 ‘Making Waves’ Public Art Project, tourist trail, surface design,
National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth.
2011 Enamel & Steel Wall Mural, entrance foyer, Vestas Technology Centre, IW Enamel
& Steel Wall Mural, entrance foyer, Art & Design College, Stourbridge, West Midlands
2010 Folding Wall Archival Mural, Education Room, Briddlesford Lodge Farm, IW
2008 Set of Collages, Hilsea Pavilion, Portsmouth Grammar School, Portsmouth, Hampshire
ART FAIRS
2015 Affordable Ar Fair, Hong Kong
2014 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong & Battersea, London
2013 Palace Art Fair, Fulham, London
2012 Works on Paper, Science Museum, London
2010 Brighton Art Fair, Brighton
2009/10 Affordable Art Fair, London
EDUCATION & WORKSHOPS
2014 ‘Landmark Trees’ Lead Artist, Arts Council England, Ryde Arts Festival, IW
2009 – 16 Continuing art & fashion workshops for primary & secondary schools
2005 – 2008 Creative Partnerships, Island Primary Schools, IW.
SELECTED PRESS
2015 Island Life, artists profile & sculpture exhibition feature
2012 Style of Wight, artists profile & sculpture exhibition feature
2011 Aesthetica Magazine, works published in the 2012 Creative Works Annual
COAST Magazine, lifestyle interview featuring artwork
Hampshire Life Magazine, artists profile & lifestyle feature
2010 Grand Designs, Television Programme, Channel 4,
Featuring Art Works in Building Project
Sunday Times Newspaper, external mural artwork & house project
Island Business Magazine, artist interview, recent works
2009 City Life Magazine, Portsmouth, four page artists profile & front cover
The Wessex Muse Magazine, South Coast, artists profile
2006 COAST Magazine, artists profile & lifestyle feature
PUBLISHED WORKS
2014 ‘DECADE’ book publication written by the artist (Peter Davies foreword)
2012 ‘LIVES OF SPACES’ book publication on the artist and recent works
(Jonathan Parsons & Peter Davies essays) ‘Aesthetica Creative Works Annual’ artists profile and enamel works
2010 ‘Re-imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey’ Winchester, catalogue publication
