Lisa Waup

About the Works

Four realms of stability, 2023
screen printed on dyed ostrich leather, ink, assorted feathers, freshwater pearls, wool, cotton
thread, reflective thread, cotton thread, buttons, copper wire
$5,500

Realm of stability, 2023
screen printed on dyed ostrich leather, ink, assorted feathers, cotton thread, reflective thread, waxed cotton, recycled sterling silver
$2,500

Protected earrings, 2023
enamel paint stencilled on ostrich leather, assorted feathers, cotton thread, hand dyed fibre, copper wire, recycled sterling silver
$2,500

Protected, 2023
enamel paint stencilled on ostrich leather, leather, assorted feathers, cotton thread, hand dyed fibre, copper wire
$4,500

Revisiting two realms, 2023
screen printed on dyed ostrich leather, ink, emu feathers, freshwater pearls, wool, cotton thread, reflective thread, cotton thread, copper wire
$5,500

Two realms, 2023
screen printed on dyed ostrich leather, ink, emu feathers, wool, cotton thread, reflective thread, cotton thread, copper wire
$2,500

As a multidisciplinary artist, Lisa Waup utilises many different mediums and materials and this exploration is an important part of her practice. Both natural and found objects speak to her of their stories and memory, which she uses to explain the meaning of her stories, in different ways.

The woven elements in Lisa’s work feature stitching – the red stitching symbolises family and bloodlines. Stitching also expresses the reconnection of lost history and family and reinforces bonds, materially, spiritually and symbolically.

About Lisa Waup

Lisa Waup is a mixed-cultural First Nations woman with a multidisciplinary art practice. Born in Naarm/Melbourne, she has ancestral connections to South-West Victoria, Torres Strait Islands and Italian heritage. Lisa’s practice is studio-based and involves the creation of objects with strong symbology that connects her to family, Country, history, motherhood and time. Currently she is a Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts at The University of Melbourne in the Drawing and Printmaking Department.

Lisa has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and her work has been collected by many state institutions and private collectors both in Australia and overseas. She was the recipient of the Paul Selzer Prize 2023, at the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery and a finalist in 2018, 2017 and 2016 Telstra NATSIAA. In 2019 she was a winner of an award in Victorian Craft Awards and her designs were featured at 2017 Melbourne Fashion Week. In 2020 she was a finalist in the NIFA.

https://www.lisa-waup.com/about

Image top: Lisa Waup, Protected and Protected earrings, 2023. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist