Biography

LISA TRAXLER 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 several years ago.

 

Lisa is best known for her now collectable large canvas abstract paintings and over the years her prolific volume of work has grown to include stitched collages incorporating her photography and archival works and recently her wall murals and sculptures of vitreous enamel and steel.

Her award winning art has been exhibited widely with recent pieces shown at the Royal College of Art (2011), Siena Art Institute, Italy (2011), Cork Street and the Mall Galleries, London (2009). She won the prestigious Golden Award at the NAPA exhibition with her group of paintings in the Crypt Gallery, St. Ives (2010). Her enamel and steel mural painted on the outside of the house she shares with partner, designer Lincoln Miles, gained huge attention when aired on national television and was commended at the Architects Journal Awards, London (2011).

Recent public art commissions include the multi-panelled enamel and steel wall mural for 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 the large scale folding wall at Briddlesford Education Centre, IW, (2010).

A major solo exhibition of her work will be shown in The West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW from 11th February until 14th April, 2012. Contact Lisa for studio appointments or commissions.

Conversation, personal memory and environment – emotive references and the fundamental inspiration used to create her abstract pieces.

 

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
& costume designer & stylist

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 'Lives of Spaces' major solo exhibition, West Gallery, Quay Arts, Hampshire, Enamel & Steel Sculptures
2010 arc space @ aspex, Portsmouth
2009 gASP Gallery, Art Space Sponsored Studio Award Exhibition, Portsmouth
2009/10 'Letters Home' Solo touring exhibition:
              Eldon Gallery, University of Portsmouth, Hampshire
              The Link Gallery, University of Winchester, Winchester
              Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
2008 Portsmouth Cathedral, Old Portsmouth, Hampshire
2007 'Crossing the Water' Rope Store Gallery, Quay Arts.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 NAPA Williamson Art Gallery & Museum,Wirral, Merseyside
2011 'DRAWING CONNECTIONS' Siena Art Institute, Italy
2011 'Art for Youth' Group Exhibition, Royal College of Art, Kensington, London, UK
2011 QUBE Open Art Exhibiton, Shropshire, suspended stitched paper in perspex.
2011 'HerStory' Women's Work group exhibition, The Link Gallery, Winchester.
2011 Pallant House Gallery Open Exhibition, Chichester, stitched collages
2011 'Pre-Sense' Susan Projects 1, group exhibition in temporary gallery, Oxford
2011 RELAY with Quay Arts & a space, group chain reaction installation, Quay Arts, IW
2010 NAPA National Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
2010 'Non-Conform', Site specific installation residency & exhibition,Depozitory, IW
2010 'I AM NOT AFRAID' Site specific installation,
         Ryde Arts Festival, St. Thomas Churchyard,IW
2010 'HYDE 900' Winchester Cathedral.
                           City Space at The Discovery Centre, Winchester.
                           The Link Gallery, Winchester
2010 'Recollection' Chapel Gallery, Lancashire
2009/2010/2011 Seaview Gallery, IW. Combined duo exhibition with sculptural ceramics by Matt Chambers
2009 'Wonderland' Boojum&Snark, Sandown, IW
2009 'Art Liberating Lives' Group Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London W1
2009 ReOpen Exhibition, Lighthouse Centre for the Arts, Poole
2009 NAPA National Exhibition, View Two Gallery, Matthew Street, Liverpool
2009 Cork Street Open Exhibition, 28 Cork Street, London W1
2009 HOMEGROWN, The Depozitry, Ryde IW
2009 1000 Lakeside, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2009 Women's Work Exhibition, The Fairground, Andover, Hampshire
2009 Farnham Maltings 'Post Art' Exhibition, Farnham, Surrey
2008 NAPA Exhibition, Obsidian Gallery, Buckinghamshire
2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 Kendall's Fine Art Gallery, Cowes, IW
2008 Spice Gallery, Southampton
2008 Gallery Deda Derby
2007 Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London W1.
2007 Pelham House Gallery, Cowes, IW
2006 Seawall Gallery, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
2005/06/07 Ryde Arts Festival, IW
2005/06/08/10 Open Exhibition, Quay Arts, Newport IW.
2004 The Surrey Institute of Art & Design.