My artworks are sliced and assembled by hand using paper, watercolour pencil and wood glue. 

Paper is a versatile and accessible material which offers me a wide range of possibility when I make.  My process combines theatrical model making techniques with improvisation.  By adding and removing pieces of paper around and around, upside down, inside out and back to front, I engage in a process of NOT KNOWING where I am going, to allow interesting ideas and relationships to emerge.           

I am particularly interested in exploring themes around memory, senescence (ageing) and heat.  I am stuck in the middle of a change of season, my artworks an expression of my internal broken thermostat.  The discomfort that I feel living inside my menopausal body is reflected in the world I see around me as things boil and simmer, mistakes are made, lines are drawn, word are said.  It is the start of another hot, ever dawning, glory gobbling day.     

As I engage in the process of meticulously slicing and re-arranging pieces of paper, I stubbornly stop to linger on the well-trodden path back towards my divinity.  The others have left me behind.  I am alone with the hot sun curling my thoughts and memories like the lowveld winter grasses, me within the world and the world within me. 

I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa.  You are welcome to contact me directly at lisa@activatespace.co.za to arrange to purchase or view.