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Dr Lisa Sheppy

South West
My research and creative interests focus on the intersection of ceramics, printmaking, and the revival of obsolete craft techniques.
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Dr Lisa Sheppy (PhD, MA, PGDipE) is an artist and researcher who completed her AHRC-funded doctorate at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, in 2023. Her research and creative interests are interdisciplinary, focusing on printmaking and ceramics and the reimagining of lost craft processes.

Lisa’s PhD thesis, titled ‘An industrial craft reinstated: a printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware’, aimed to apply twenty-first century technologies to a decorative ceramic print process that has not transitioned from historic industrial use to contemporary art practice.

Lisa’s research methods included archival studies made at the Museum of Royal Worcester, where she explored the under examined materials relating to tissue transferware manufacturing. Furthermore, Lisa interviewed and collaborated with the former master engraver from Spode, whose tacit skills were fundamental in demonstrating a process vulnerable to becoming lost. Based on her historical findings, Lisa designed and documented derived principals resulting in a reimagined method for producing tissue transferware using new technologies for contemporary art practice.

Lisa is committed to increasing the visibility of her research and practice through exhibitions, workshops and talks with features in publications such as Printmaking Today, Pressing Matters, The Journal of the California Society of Printmakers and the Impact Journal. In 2023, the material outcomes from her research featured in the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers’ International Open Printmaking Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London.

 

Ulterior Voices

Croome Redefined - 'Soul to Sole' Croome Court National Trust

Grow Pop Up! Edinburgh, 'In Domo Vitrea'

'Art for Life' Musgrove Park Hospital Commission

Charlotte's Dress Solo Exhibition at The Brontë Parsonage Museum

Charlotte's Room

Quaker-like as it was

Ghosts are usually pale Jane

Unsurped Portmanteau

Lost Pockets

Charlotte's Dress

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