Lisa Traxler
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Overview:
Lisa Traxler combines painting and 3D form within her practice exploring associations with construction, assemblage and components. Her abstract work traverses the two and three dimensional divide and links the disciplines of painting and sculpture.
Her studio is a converted RAF war-time bunker on the Isle of Wight’s south coast.
Born in London, Traxler studied at Croydon Art College and Birmingham Polytechnic
graduating with a BA Hons Degree in Fashion and Textiles.
She is an elected member of The London Group, the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Royal Waterclour Society.
Bio / CV Lisa Traxler RWS, MRSS - born London
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Studied: Croydon Art College and Birmingham Polytechnic. BA Hons Fashion & Textiles. Former fashion editor (IPC Publications, London) and costume designer. Member: The London Group (elected 2022), Royal Society of Sculptors (elected 2017), Royal Watercolour Society (elected 2015).
Solo exhibitions: ‘Outer Space’ Pangolin Five Windows, London, Summer 2023.’Time Traveller’ Southampton City Art Gallery, Summer 2022. ’Blast Wall’ The Foundry Gallery, London, Spring 2021. ’BUILD' paintings & sculptures: Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, May 2017 touring to Surface Matter Materials Library part of London Design Festival, London Fields, Hackney, September 2017 and WWII Radar Bunker, Isle of Wight, January 2018 as part of START’18 International Sculpture Network. ‘Decade’ and ‘Lives of Spaces’ toured from West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW (2012 & 2014), ExCel Expo Centre (Grand Designs Live, 2014) to Apthorp Gallery, Artsdepot, London (2015).
Recent exhibitions: ‘Aesthetica Art Prize’, York Art Gallery, York (2023), ‘Home’ RWS Spring Bankside Gallery, SE1, 2023 ’The London Group at Bankside’ Bankside Gallery, SE1, Autumn 2022, ‘Biennial International Fabriano Watercolour 2022, Fabriano, Italy. ’Paradoxes’ Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, IW, Spring 2022. ’Trace Elements’ The Factory Project, Thorp Stavri, London, 2021. ’Concrete Castles’ Bodmin Keep, Cornwall (2021) & Coleshill National Trust (2022). ‘Edge to Edge’ The Cello Factory, London, 2021. ACE Solo ‘Blast Wall’ The Foundry Gallery, Chelsea, 2021 ACE ’Dazzle + Disrupt’ Duo Exhibition, The West Gallery, Quay Arts, IW, 2021. The London Group Open, 2017 + 2019. Southampton City Art Gallery 2018/19 + 2020. The Lightbox, Woking with RSS, 2019. St. Barbe Museum, Lymington, 2018. The Greenhouse, Berlin, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice. London Design Festival 2016 + 2017. Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary at Bankside Gallery, ING Discerning Eye at Mall Galleries, the Crypt Gallery, St. Ives, the Bath Society of Artists. Continuing Summer & Autumn Exhibitions, RWS, Bankside Gallery, London SW1.
Awards: Finalist Aesthetica Art Prize (2023),a-n Bursary (2021), Arts Council England Project Grant Award (2021), Southampton City Art Gallery Open Exhibition Winner, (2020), Jeff Lowe Sculpture Award, London Group (2019), Boarhunt 4th Plinth Sculpture Award, Hampshire (2019) Adrian Henri Award (2017), ProArte Award (2014), Colart Award (2012) Golden Award (2010) for paintings at the NAPA National Exhibitions, The Crypt Gallery, St. Ives. Shortlisted & published in Aesthetica Creative Art Award Annual (2012). Exterior vitreous enamelled steel mural and sculptures featured on house built with architectural designer, Lincoln Miles, national television (Grand Designs, Channel 4, 2010/12) recipient of the Architect’s Journal Small Build Award, London (2011) by the architect Will Alsop. Collaboration with furniture designer, Steuart Padwick, hand painted enamelled steel folding table that hangs as wall art, featured at London Design Festival (2016). ‘Dazzle’ designed exterior cladding and staircase featured in Sunday Times Home (September, 2017) & METRO newspaper (2019) alongside a vitreous enamelled steel interior work surface.
Public Art Commissions: Vitreous enamelled steel Memory Tree Wall Sculpture, Mountbatten Hospice, IW (2019), multi panelled vitreous enamelled steel wall mural, entrance foyer, Art & Design College, Stourbridge, West Midlands (2011). Enamelled steel triptych, entrance foyer, Vestas Technology Centre, IW (2011), multi panelled folding wall mural, Briddlesford Education Centre, IW (2010). ‘Paperscapes’ site specific installation, entrance foyer, ’Platform Project’ Affordable Art Fair, Battersea (2017).
Catalogues: ’Time Traveller’ (essay Paul Carey-Kent, foreword Polly Bielecka, Pangolin London) ) ‘Concrete Castles’ (assistant curator + ‘Ghosts in the Landscape’ essay by Traxler) ‘Blast Wall’ (essay Jillian Knipe, foreword Tim Craven), ‘Dazzle+Disrupt’ (essay Jillian Knipe, foreword Georgia Neman). ‘Decade’ & ‘Lives of Spaces’ (essay Jonathan Parsons, foreword Peter Davies).
Her work can be found in private & public collections throughout the UK, Hong Kong, New York, Australia & Italy.
