Lisa OBrien
Wester Ross
Lisa has a mixed practice which stems from her interest in both visual art and sound.
Lisa O’Brien is based on the North West coast of Scotland. As a graduate of the Expressive Arts course at Brighton Polytechnic in the 80’s she has always been open to working with various media and her practice over the years has encompassed, performance, composition, video , sound, installation and more recently drawing and painting. She uses the media she finds most appropriate to the situation and the ideas she is exploring. Her practice has been influenced by living in one of the remotest parts of North West Scotland for the last 10 years and is often linked to the environment and weather conditions. Her work explores the idea of temporality, and she strives to capture the essence of fleeting moments so that they can be re examined, to some extent re-lived and this also links with how we experience memories. She is interested in how the link between time, place and sound contribute to a specific moment in time.
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Qualifications and training
2007 - MFA Fine Art with Distinction, Grays School of Art RGU, Aberdeen
1989 - Ba(hons) Expressive Arts, Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton
Solo exhibitions
2013 - Lifelines, Rhue Art, Ullapool
2011 - Transitions, Left Bank Gallery, Tarland, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
2006 - Black Cube, JIPB Cube Gallery, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Group exhibitions
2013 - The Wave, West Jutland Towns, Denmark
2011 - Sublime Film Festival, Rose Street Car Park, Inverness
2011 - Uproot/Displace/Resettle, Heartwood, Monkquell, Blairgowrie
2010 - Architectural Disorder (Disturbance), OVADA Gallery, Oxford
2008 - Single Track Road, New Media Scotland, Toured to Belgrade, Boston, Vancouver, CCA Glasgow
2007 - Swing, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds
2006 - Disturbance Cube, JIPB Cube, Ichinomiya, Japan, also toured to Denmark, France
2001 - Losing Gravity, Merlin Theatre, Sheffield, St Annes Church, Manchester
Competitions, prizes and awards
2011 - Hi Arts Visual Artists Award, Hi Arts, Highland
2009 - Hi-Arts Bursary, Residency as part of SOUND festival, Left Bank Gallery, Tarland, Aberdeen
2006 - Artists Award, Hi-Arts
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