Lisa Reid

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Artist Lisa Reid.

Lisa Reid (born in 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian artist, known primarily for her highly detailed figurative works in a variety of mediums. Reid has worked from her Northcote-based studio at Arts Project Australia since 2000, where she held her first solo show in 2015. [1] She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally and her work was recently selected for the landmark exhibition Painting. More Painting, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. [2] Her work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. [3]

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Early life and education

In an autobiographical digital animation entitled My Story, Reid presents her childhood as one marked by bullying in mainstream education and complains that her forays into "special education" were also unsatisfactory, with educators making no effort to teach her literacy. Following her graduation from a transitional TAFE course, she describes her experience working in a factory setting as "slave labour." [4] More positive experiences are present in Reid's autobiographical opus – chiefly her talent for swimming (she has been a competitor and finalist in the Special Olympics since the age of fifteen) and art. [4] Since 2000 she has been working at the studio at Arts Project Australia (APA), an organisation devoted to supporting and promoting artists with an intellectual disability. Although no formal fine art training is provided at APA, her participation in the studio program there has provided her with access to fine art materials and the informal tuition provided by the practicing artists employed by the organisation. During the formative early years of residency at the studio, her paintings and drawings presented muted, monochromatic, anonymous figures, sourced from magazines and newspapers. In 2002 a family photograph album became a pivotal source in developing Reid's work, providing her with the source material for a personal narrative as her subject matter. [5] During this time she also attended a life drawing class at RMIT University and began to develop her meticulous signature style. [5]

Career, themes and style

Reid's work has remained primarily figurative throughout her career, and has become recognisable by the "highly detailed" and "intricate" style of art-making she has adopted across a range of mediums including painting, printmaking, ceramics and digital media, with subject matter sourced from personal photographs, life drawing and images from popular culture. [6] Due to the meticulous "small stroke" technique [5] which she employs in her practice, individual works will sometimes take her several months or even years to complete, and her method is to work on several projects simultaneously. [5] Reid's objective in adopting this laborious process, is to reproduce her source imagery as realistically as possible, in the manner of photorealist artists. [5] The mode in which Reid transfers her signature small stroke technique directly from traditional to digital media, has prompted Melbourne writer and art critic Dylan Rainforth to draw a parallel between the work of Reid and that of the Australian artist Richard Lewer, who he claims employs a similar process in his digital practice. Both artists, he states, employ this technique to "reinforce the pathos" of their narrative works. [4] The flattening of pictorial space in Reid's painting has also led Rainforth to compare her work and to that of early Modernists such as Paul Cézanne and Georges Braque.

Reid's work is known for appropriating the imagery and icons of popular culture, particular Australian culture, which led to Reid's inclusion in a merchandise collaboration between National Gallery of Victoria, Arts Project Australia and Third Drawer Down. [7]

Reid has been identified as one of Australia's key artists within the Outsider Art category, as can be evidenced by her inclusion in major Outsider Art exhibitions and fairs in Australia and the USA. Prompted by the inclusion of her portrait of the art collector and artist Peter Fay in the Salon de Refusés in 2008, the artwork was reproduced in Art Monthly Australia, where then-editor Maurice O’Riordan – referring to both artist and subject – described it as "an eloquent statement of triumph against ‘established’ odds." [8] In 2016 her work was included in Painting. More Painting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and her work has also been acquired for the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.

Solo exhibitions

Lisa Reid: The Devil's in the Detail, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, 2015

Selected group exhibitions

Publications

Collections

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References

  1. "Lisa Reid Artist Profile". Arts Project Australia.
  2. "Painting More Painting Artwork List" (PDF). Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. 2016.
  3. Webb, Carolyn (12 May 2003). "Artistically Enabled". The Age.
  4. 1 2 3 Rainforth, Dylan (2015). "Ways of Seeing With Lisa Reed". Lisa Reid: The Devil's in the Detail via Arts Project Australia.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Luttin, Sim (2015). "Catalogue Essay". Lisa Reid: The Devil's in the Detail via Arts Project Australia.
  6. Irwin, Julia (7 September 2015). "Art flies out door: Frisbee portraits catch on". Northcote Leader.
  7. "Lisa Reid Cooler Bag". National Gallery of Victoria Design Store. 2017.
  8. O’Riordan, Maurice (May 2008). "Editorial". Art Monthly Australia. Issue #209.
  9. "Home Sweet Home: The Peter Fay Collection". National Gallery of Australia.