Lisa Carrett is a Sydney-based artist. In 2019, Carrett graduated from UNSW Art and Design with a BFA (Honours). Working across mediums including painting and ceramics, she couples abstraction with familiar and uncanny Australian icons. Carrett’s work explores transient landscapes both past and present, engaging with the way memory intersects with place. She seeks to disrupt and unsettle the audience through a bold colour palette, rendering imagery that is both simultaneously familiar and strange.
Carrett’s work has been exhibited and collected in both solo and group shows as well as Finalist Awards. Recent projects include Artist as Archivist (2024) as well as Finalist Awards including Randwick Women’s Art Prize (2023), Waverley Art Prize (2022), Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2021) and Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2020, 2021).
Education:
2015-2018: UNSW Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
Solo Exhibitions:
2024: Madeline Gordon Gallery, Tasmania
2021: Uncanny Archives, Artsite Galleries, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024: Artist as Archivist, Woollahra Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2023: Blue surpasses Dimensions, Saywell Gallery, NSW
2023: Finalist, Women’s Art Prize, Randwick Council, NSW
2023: Water Through Reeds Gallery, Bungendore, NSW
2022: Waverley Art Prize, Finalist
2022: Radiance, Gallery Lane Cove, NSW
2022: Coast to Coast, Saint Cloche, Sydney, NSW
2022: Electric Dreams, Saint Cloche, Sydney, NSW
2021: Finalist, 20th Anniversary Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, NSW
2021: Finalist, 59th Annual Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2021: Small Works, Artsite Galleries, Sydney
2020: Packsaddle, New England Regional Art Gallery and Museum (NERAM), Armidale, NSW
2020: Finalist, Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Sydney, NSW
2020: Finalist, 20th Anniversary Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney, NSW
2020: Finalist, 58th Annual Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2020: Finalist, Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2020: Collectors Choice, 2020, Artsite Galleries, Sydney
2020: Self Portraits in the Age of Covid-19, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW
