Dr Lisa Sheppy
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.
Academic Qualifications
PhD: An industrial craft reinstated: a printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware, Centre for Print Research, UWE, Bristol
MA: Multidisciplinary Printmaking, distinction, UWE, Bristol
BA (Hons) Fine Art, first class, BCU, Birmingham
Post Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Worcester
Research Interests
Ceramics and printmaking
Craft
Material thinking
The reimagining of traditional craft processes with new technologies
Museum archives and the evocative object: absence and presence
Academic and artist publications
Cherniwchan, C. (2023) Autographic Aesthetic. Printmaking Today. 32, p9.
Sheppy, L. (2023). An industrial craft reinstated: A printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware. Impact Printmaking Journal, 1. https://impact-journal-cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/index.php/impact/article/view/123
Sheppy, L. (2023). An industrial craft reinstated: a printmaker’s perspective on tissue transferware. PhD, University of the West of England. Available from: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9238193
Sheppy, L.C. (2023) A Future for Tissue Transferware. The California Printmaker., pp. 41-43.
Power, V. (2022) Overlooked and Obsolete. Pressing Matters. 21, p. 8.
Summer of Print and Books Launches for IMPACT 12 (2022) Available from:https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/summer-of-print-and-books-launches-for-impact-12/
Impact 12 Full Conference Publication (2022) Available from: file:///Users/lisasheppy/Downloads/Impact%2012%20Full%20Conference%20Publication%202022.pdf
Frances, M. (2018) In the Limelight. Glass Network: The Cgs Magazine. 69.
Ruskin Glass Centre (2015) British Glass Biennale 2015. Stourbridge: Ruskin Glass Centre.
Cass, N., ed. (2012) Wildness Between Lines. Brighouse: Leeds College of Art.
Ruskin Glass Centre (2010) British Glass Biennale 2010. Stourbridge: Ruskin Glass Centre.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions and Artist talks
2024 ‘From pattern book to shard: a future for tissue transferware’ The Centre for Print Research’s lunchtime talk, UWE, Bristol. https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/lisa-sheppy-from-pattern-book-to-shard-a-future-for-tissue-transferware/
2024 An artist’s exploration of the technique of tissue transfer printing on ceramics’ The Museum of Royal Worcester winter talk programme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIakv8Qa-sc
2023 Royal Society of Painter Printmakers International Open Printmaking Exhibition, Bankside, London
2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal, London
2022 Impact 12, UWE, Bristol; exhibitor and Conferance speaker
2016 Affordable Garden Art Competition, Showborough House, Gloucestershire
2015 British Glass Biennale, selected artist, Stourbridge, West Midlands
2014 ‘Soul to Sole’, Croome Redefined, The National Trust, Croome, Worcestershire.
2014 Selector at Affordable Garden Art Competition, Showborough House, Gloucestershire
2014 Charingworth House, Winchcombe Art Trial, The Cotswolds
2013 ‘Ways of Seeing’ ‘Art for Life’, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
2013 Winds of Change Gallery, Winchcombe, The Cotwolds.
2013 The Quartz Festival, Queens College, Taunton, Somerset
2013 ‘Craftsense’ Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton
2013 Grow! Pop Up! The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
2013 Spike Open Print Exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol
2013 Affordable Garden Art Competition and Exhibition, Showborough House, Gloucestershire
2013 Black Swan Arts Open Competition, Frome, Somerset
2013 “Re-Visioning the Brontës’ University of Leeds, Speaker
2012 ‘Wildness Between Lines’, Leeds College of Art
2011 Showborough House Garden Exhibition, Showborough, Gloucestershire
2011 ‘Glass Wear 2011,’ London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey, London
2011 ‘The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, with Spike Print Studio
2011 ‘Heavenly Sent’ London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey, London
2010 ‘Essence’ Selected artist London Glassblowing Gallery, Bermondsey, London
2010 British Glass Biennale, selected artist, Stourbridge; Prize winner
2010 Selected work for contemporary glass display, Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery
2010 Spike Open Exhibition, Spike Print Studio, Bristol
2009 ‘Impact 6’ UWE, Bristol
2009 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 7th Open Print Exhibition; Prize winner
2009 ‘Rising Stars’, Studio Fusion Gallery, Oxo Building, London
2009 MA Degree Show, Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking, UWE, Bristol
Lecturing
2013- 2017
Birmingham City University International
Course Leader for Foundation and Pre-Masters courses in Art and Design leading to Birmingham City University
2005-2012
School of Art and Design, Worcester College of Technology, Worcester
Course Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
2001-2004
Malvern College, Malvern, Worcestershire
Course Leader for Foundation Diploma in Art and Design