Lisa McArthur-Edwards
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Solo coming up at ME Artspace in St Leonards

27/9/2016

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This is the wonderful write up that curator Cara Martinez wrote about my work and exhibition:
Lisa McArthur Edwards’ exhibition Layers, embraces the complexities of nature to celebrate it’s inherent vastness and simplicity. This exhibition also speaks of the artist’s personal journey over the last year; these paintings were born as a direct expression of living with physical and emotional pain, working through realisation to acceptance on the road to recovery.
 
Having been at times unable to continue physically functioning as usual in her everyday life, Lisa states that she created an alternate present and future through these works, with her own daydreamt travels through unexplored territories a welcome respite from her pain. Abstracted suggestions of birds and other life are interspersed with geometric forms appearing in places and softened by the surrounding shapes and colours.
 
The artist’s choice of colours is evocative of the four elements: earth, sky, water and air. Compositions are reminiscent of topographic maps; satellite images of earth; views of ocean and earth from a ‘plane window; a desktop globe of the world; a mariner’s map of old; layers of stratum on the cutaway of a cliff face or the view of an endless valley and distant hills from the summit of a mountain peak. Lisa’s works are immense – not in physical size but in the sense of endless planes within them - the longer the viewer’s gaze lingers, the more possible it is to venture into the works and explore endlessly.
 
Lisa’s works are intricate – they are tiny landscapes of biological ecosystems supporting molecular cells in a hypothetical petri dish, knitting the growing cells together to form an enduring micro-geography. A biological analogy is fitting when we consider how the physical is interconnected with the emotional, the mental and the spiritual landscapes and processes. The artist was only able to momentarily overcome her debilitating pain while she worked on these paintings, to be dogged by it faithfully when she set down her brush once more.
 
These works underscore the intersecting fragility and strength of the natural environment and the nature of the self.  The layered mix of media is supported by fragile paper, firmly framed in wood and highlighted in the choice of titles of each work. It is the culmination of a year’s worth of work through physical pain, acceptance, endurance and vitality. A year’s worth of emotional growth, of honouring treasured travels in the past and of imagining future journeys with hope.
 
Layers speaks of a complexity that is at once immediate and immense, the easily comprehended and the incomprehensible, all of which is encapsulated in nature and in the natural cycles of pain and growth in the journey of the human self. Deeply personal and yet universal, Layers is a compelling exhibition that speaks at once to timeless human experiences of journeys of the self and journeys on the earth. 
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Best place to see my work

26/7/2016

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The best place to see my work now is Facebook as Lisa McArthur-Edwards Artist or Instagram as lisamcarthuredwards.  I update on these 2 platforms most days, you can click through to me from the icons at the top of the page.  Looking forward to meeting you there!
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Fish traps coming along....

9/5/2016

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My fibre sculpture fish trap is coming along nicely.
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The internal elements will be made this week

Hoping it will be in an exhibition in the next few weeks time.  

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​Workshops and lots of exciting things coming up....

3/5/2016

​I am running a few workshops that are coming up:

Drop in Basketry days - check out adult workshops page for details.
Basketry weekday Workshops - check out adult workshops page for details.

I am currently building a new website for my new art business From Here to Art
where I will be offering online art classes for adults, also online homeschool art programs for children.

I will also be selling my Journey Maps.  These are personalised artworks created based on your life story and life journeys.  Great to celebrate a milestone, a great career, a great passion or an amazing experience and also for celebrating a loved ones life.  So watch this space for my new site that will be coming soon.

Its good to be back!!
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Basketry workshops and art classes cancelled for the next 3 months

11/10/2015

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Due to spinal injuries I have to cancel the workshops and art classes for the rest of the year.  Fingers crossed things will improve by next year for me.  thank you to everyone who has supported me this year and come to my workshops and bought my art works. 
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Coiled Sculpture Workshop

23/8/2015

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I have spaces on this workshop of you want to book in please call me on 0414 201 669 or email me through the contacts page.  
We will be working at creating seed pods.  It is so quick and easy and so much fun so I hope you can make it along.

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Not a drawer at all

12/8/2015

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I am so not a drawer. I hate drawing. I can do my concept sketches and paint and etch etc but I just can't sit and draw. Today stuck in bed with bronchitis and reading an amazing book - drawing from the right side of the brain. Doing some exercises and quite amazed, they actually do look a bit like they should. A few wobbly areas I will disregard, but overall better than my normal dire efforts.

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Have been busy painting

28/7/2015

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These are pretty big for me.  They are 2m's long and actually have a lot of little details in them which are almost impossible to see on photos.  But I have had so much fun doing them.  I have done a few more but these are the completed ones so far.  The new ones are a lot bolder and more dynamic than these ones, so I will post those in about 2 weeks time.  I seem to be on a painting journey at the moment.  But I have some prints bouncing around and about to do a whole series of sculptures.  So my head is bursting and I am just creating every day and all day.  I am working towards another solo next year and I seem really be on a roll with this at the moment, but I will keep posting as I go along.

Happy viewing.

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Sold again....

21/6/2015

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Sold my Seaweed lithograph print today at 5 Lands at Avoca.  I am working on a series of seaweed prints at the moment.  Most of them are etchings on aluminium plates, but knowing me I will land up creating some collagraphs, drypoints and woodblocks to add into the mix too.  I have a two plates done and about another 6 to go.  Prints will be up on my site probably in August/September.  
Thank you to my buyers this weekend for supporting my work as an artist, it is appreciated.  
Sorry for another bad photo of the print, all taken before the framing was completed.

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Sold at 5 Lands Avoca beach

19/6/2015

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Very happy to have sold a mixed media work "Path" this morning to a lovely young couple. This photo was taken before it was properly framed. Never got a post framing photo. Whoops.

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Back to Art classes now full for this term

15/6/2015

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Thanks to everyone who has booked in.  The Back into Art classes are full for this term.  But I will run them the following term again.  Clink on the link to "Workshops" to see all the details for future classes.
There are still places in the Basketry workshops, July is filling fast.  Plenty of spaces for the next few months though.

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