Lisa Anderson

Dr. Lisa Anderson has created and exhibited internationally for over 40 years undertaking exploration and scientific residencies working with landscape/topographies through a prism of folklore and superstition stories as memories and instruction for creating place. Residencies included remote locations in the High Arctic and Antarctic and locations such as Paris, London, Ireland and Iceland. Installations for the St Tropez Antipodes, Boston Lights, MardiGras 798 in Beijing and the Toronto, Hong Kong and Amsterdam Art Fairs by London Gallery Bicha while locally at Customs House in Sydney and Wollongong and Ballarat City Galleries.

Dr Anderson’s 2024 Artist-In-Residence at Abbotsford Convent included in Melbourne Fringe Festival and she has been awarded the 2023 Rupert Bunny Fellowship, the NSW Women and the Arts Award, as well as Australia Council grants and international support for her projects. Festival projects include Singing up Stones, (the first projection on the Sydney Opera House); Writing the City (a three year project with the City of Sydney leading up to the 2000 Olympics); in the Brisbane Festival of Big Ideas and Sydney Writers Festival; Tiga Tiga for Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania, and Venice Biennale Fringe Festival and special projects for ISEA with Istanbul Biennale and Video Tech for Arts Toronto.

Dr Anderson has also held major roles at Australian and international institutions including the Inaugural Fellow and Artist at the Australian Museum, the Innovation Fellow in Architecture at UTS and the Creative Fellow at the University of Wollongong; Honorary Professor at Federation University and Visiting Fellow at Tianjin University China.