Lisa V Robinson is an emerging contemporary painter currently based in Westgate Studios, Wakefield, Northern England. She studied BA Fine Art Painting at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating with First Class Honours in 2008. Since graduating from university, Lisa has proceeded to win the Joan Day Painting Bursary and more recently has been shortlisted for the New Lights Art Prize.
Westgate Studios is open as part of the Wakefield Artwalk; a bi-monthly event where venues across Wakefield come alive with a variety of visual arts and crafts, live music, and performances. The next artwalk will be held on Wednesday 28th March 2012.
Education: 2008 BA (Hons) First, Fine Art Painting, Manchester School of Art. 2005 Pre BA Foundation, Merit, Art and Design, Batley School of Art and Design. Solo Exhibitions: 2010 Rhythmical Surfaces, The Bowery, Leeds. 2009 New Paintings, South Square Gallery, Bradford. Selected Group Exhibitions: 2011 New Lights, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate. 2011 Westgate Winter Wonderland, Westgate Studios, Wakefield. 2011 Sites in Sight: Art for the Quiet Times, Wakefield. 2011 Open Annual Members Exhibition, The Arthouse, Wakefield. 2010 The Working Artist, POD 1 Space, Barnsley. 2010 Amalgamate, Westgate Studios Project Space, Wakefield. 2009 Deck The Walls, Westgate Studios Project Space, Wakefield. 2009 Capture, CUBE gallery, Manchester. 2008 The Postcard Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham. 2008 Social Club Salon, Patrick Studios Project Space, Leeds. 2008 Fine Art Degree Show, Grosvenor Building, Manchester School of Art. 2007 Half a Dozen of the Other, The Link Gallery, Manchester. Publications: 2011 New Lights: Art in the North, Catalogue. 2010 Platform 58, Issue 015 Paint, February, Magazine. 2009 Fiona Nehama Abrahami, Random Excess, CD Cover. 2009 Silver Lion, Issue 1, July, Magazine. 2009 Blankpages, Issue 11, March, Magazine. 2009 Art Fist, Issue 5, January, Magazine. 2008 ESA Social Club Presents: Salon 2008, Catalogue. 2007 Half a Dozen of the Other: New Paintings, Catalogue. Awards: 2011 Shortlisted for New Lights Art Prize, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate. 2009 The Joan Day Painting Bursary, South Square Gallery, Bradford.
For details on upcoming exhibitions, and other news please visit her art blog. |  Sites in Sight: Art for the Quiet Times, Wakefield, 2011  Rhythmical Surfaces, The Bowery, 2010  Amalgamate, Westgate Studios, 2010  New Paintings, South Square Gallery, 2009  New Paintings, South Square Gallery, 2009 |
