Dr Lisa Anderson RED
Dec 21 - Jan 19 2025
Dr Lisa Anderson Red
The reds of memory
Infrared photography that explores those edges of land that we almost see. The blurred lines of horizons and marks of movement in our periphery vision.
An infrared series of blurred images that investigate elements of the places where water meets land. The blur of memory and the literal misting from the sea creates a mythical space that Australia occupies. Searching out that view of a large island surrounded by oceans and defined by rivers, swamps and mangroves and the impenetrable stands of melaleuca standing in the lakes edge.
These things define our memory of place.
I am asking myself for childhood memories of running across the sand bars at dawn chasing soldier crabs, of walking by the docks and the smell of the mangroves. The brave leaps into the cold waters making us feel alive even as the sun bears down on us, unrelenting in its heat.
These images are of the hidden moments the cormorants and sea gulls sitting on poles, the old men with their metal detectors the broad expanse and the layered mesh of mangroves the Lighthouses as our watchers. These memories define us.
They are what we have as much of the detail of life fades away these broad brush moments where one can almost see are somehow the most laden with story for each of us.
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Lost Swamp #10. Image created in the Noosa Everglades near the spot where the recued Eliza Fraser was safely handed over to colony authorities by the Butchulla people of K’gari. A word that means paradise.
1. Lost Swamp #10 2024
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$ 350
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
2. Narcissus Twin
3. Port
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
70 x 52cm Framed
$ 750
Sunset Beach #10. Image created at Tallows Beach looking back towards the Arakwal Swamps. When the sun drops on Australian beaches the shadows can be haunting and so beautiful.
4. Sunset Beach #10 2023-24
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
After the Burn #10. Image created in Arakwal National Park as the ground was smoking after a controlled burn.
5. After the Burn #10 2023-24
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
There are many legends of the Aurora, good omens and bad. In many folkloric and artistic traditions it is female and the cycle of life. It is the place of beginning, it is our birth and here amid the landscape images brings us back to a beginning. The femaleness is an invitation from nature to enter the portal to other worlds in the dawn.
6. Aurora: Dawn 35 x 220. x 2 pieces. Neon sculpture. Indoor use only. Power required. Edition 2/5
$3,500
Everglades#10 Image created along the Noosa Everglades one of only 2 everglades in the world. The small tree marked a hidden turn following the maze-like water ways.
7. Everglades #10 2024
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
Garden Folly #10. Image created at Abbotsford Convent Cultural Hub during Artist-inResidence project Searching for Ghosts 2024.
8. Garden Folly #10 2023-24
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
Once the Fun Pier #10. Image created in Geelong referencing the refurbished piers all along the Victorian Coastline.
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
9. Luna Pier #10 2024
Luna is the Roman god of the celestial skies and signifies their ability to open a portal into another world. The laughing mouth of Luna Park in St Kilda suggests just such a portal to otherness as we pass through.
10. Luna’s Welcome Mask
160.93 x 107.29 cm.
Print on metal Edition of 8
$ 5,000
Fun Ride#10. Image created at Luna Park. The Innocence of the wave we all do on the rollercoaster in contrast to the sneaking cameras we know are there for the memory pictures.
11. Fun Ride #10 2024
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
Flight #10. Image created from West St Kilda looking toward Port Melbourne. For me it reflects a freedom of spirit.
12. Flight #10 2023-24
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
Beach Comber#10. Image created in Geelong but could be anywhere on Victorian coastline. The work embodies ideas of the vast possibility of both luck and beauty.
13. Beach Comber #10 2024
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
This image uses a mirror effect to play with the mythical idea of Echo, the voice of nature in many cultures but cursed to only repeat the last words said to them. The happy accident with my infrared setup creates an other-worldly glow of the fires that have happened in Australia as warnings of environmental disaster to come. As well as On The Beach the movie made at St Kilda in 1957. This film starred Ava Gardener and Melbourne was the last place on earth as global nuclear mistakes were destroying the planet.
14. Echoes Warning
1590 x50 cm print on metal. Edition of 8
$3,500
Tides#10. Image created looking down from the Ferris Wheel in Catani Gardens. The tides become molten and alluring as the groin forms the patterns of Port Phillip Bay.
15. Tides #10 2023-24
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
Warning Point#10. Image created from the iconic Byron Bay lighthouse. This is what we see when we look from our island across the waters, a yearning and a danger.
16. Warning Point #10 2023-24
Infra Red Photograph - Pigment print on plantine archival paper
AP Edition of 15 - Editioned Prints available unframed.
35.5cm x 44.5cm Framed
$350
Artist - C.V.
Dr Lisa Anderson. Artist : www.lisaanderson.com.au
Lisa Anderson’s projects and international residencies explore our connection to the stewardship of the planet through histories and stories found in folklore and superstition around the world. Installations use multi-media including video/sculpture/installation to explore and engage the landscape and the built environment in dramatically changing environments pushed by geopolitics of weather and mass migration.
Dr Anderson was the 22/23 Rupert Bunny Fellow in Port Phillip to create a project titled Beguiling that uses her polar imagery alongside new local imagery to create unique digital and sculptural works.
Dr Anderson was the Artist-in-Residence for Abbotsford Convent 2024 creating the installation Searching for Ghosts of Desire, using folklore to work with the ghosts of the women who were sent or chose to live there over the life of the Convent.
Dr Anderson has lectured at several Australian and International institutions and been awarded Honorary Professor at Federation University, the Innovation Fellow in Architecture at UTS; The Creative Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Visiting Fellow at Tianjin University China and the Inaugural Fellow and Artist at the Australian Museum. Festivals projects include Singing up Stones, the first projection on the Sydney Opera House; Writing the City 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 NightGalleries, Bangkok. selected EXHIBITION and INSTALLATIONS
2024 Ghosts of Desire. Fringe Festival Venice. San Marco Art Space
Aurora: Finalist Blake Prize. Casula Powerhouse. Sydney 2023 Beguiling. Victorian Pride Centre. (Nov/Dec)
2022 The Salon. &Gallery@fedsquare.Melbourne.
2021 Ghosts and Gods. &Gallery. Mornington Penninsula Slow Art. Cambelltown Gallery, Sydney.
2020 Human Horizon. Photo and video installation at Subhashok Arts Centre, Bangkok
2019 INhale EXhale. Installation Yerring Station Art Prize.
2018 TeddyBear EXtinctions. Installation video & sculpture. BOAA.
View #64 of Hjorthfells: Landscape Burnt. Residency Svalbard, Norway.
Ravenswood Art Prize finalist.
Brides. Mardi Gras exhibition Paddington Gallery.
2017 Frozen Landscape. Ravenswood Art Prize Finalist.
2016 Journeys: Due North. Commissioned solo exhibition creating new work based on over 10 years of Arctic exploration. Art Gallery of Ballarat.
2015 Great Big Colour-In Book of Stories. Video sculptural installation. Commissioned for the Melbourne Athenaeum 175th Anniversary.
In The Breath of Ghosts. Major installation Commissioned as special event by Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
Laneway Bride #1. In Print. Los Angeles Digital Museum, Los Angelos.
I Met a Flute Player on the Road to my Dream. Video work Hidden Bodies in the Venice Biennale Fringe Exhibition, Palace. Venice.
Illuminate Athena #3. White Nights Melbourne. The Athenaeum Library Residency.
2014 Frozen Memories. Solo Installation Wollongong City Gallery.
Reflective Memories. Video installation on board MVFram. Bergen Norway.
Reflective Memories#2. Multiple billboard projection Times Square, New York.
2014 Tricksters in the Forest. MECA, Spain. (and) Rimbah Dahan Dance Projects
Malaysia (and) Pennsylvania Museum Outdoor Projections, Boston Moving Image; (and) Federation Square.
Tiga Tiga: The Pod. Installation Lorne Sculpture Biennale.
2013 Tricksters & Huldefolke. Video and Ceramics Installations Art Toronto. Canada.
Tiga Tiga. Inflatable Scenic World Sculpture Prize Blue Mountains, Tiger Memory Domain House, Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania.
2012 Beneath the Architecture of Beauty. Neon sculptures and photographs, Bicha Gallery. London.
Imagine Walking on Water, Blake Prize, Sydney.
Heaven on a Stick. Glass, led and ceramic sculptural installation in Blue Mountains Australia.
Polar Quest. Photographic project undertaken on the MV Fram in the Antarctic.
2011 PRECIOUS, installation of 40,000 recycled glasses, SXS Denmark sand:bone:clay. Special screening for ISEA as sidebar to the Istanbul Biennale. Clouds in the Beijing Breeze. Video and drawing installation Redgate Studios Beijing. China.
The Dance. Video onto sculptural forms Installation while artist in residence on the MV Fram in Bay of Biscay.
2010 IVU, video and sculptural installation, Wagga Wagga Gallery sand: bone: clay, video installation, St Tropez Film Festival, France
Ends of the Earth, Photographs, Bicha Gallery London, UK
2009 Paris Angels. Lens based painting at rex-livingston art dealer , Sydney ATTLA (snow that makes beautiful pictures as it falls). Sculpture in acrylic sheet installation with multichannel projection, video wall and photographs /collages at Customs House, Sydney
2008 Midnight Ice. Digital images and light boxes at rex-livingston art dealer, Sydney
The Truth About Sno Domes. Projection and sculptural Installation Gold Coast City Gallery; Bundaberg Regional Gallery; Baltimore, USA.
2007 IceBerg. Projection and sound work in the High Arctic.
2006 Studio Exhibition. Felt and neon sculpture and light based installation. Chalmers St Sydney.
2005 Chandelier. Neon Installation Sydney Esquisse Festival. Surry Hills.
2001 Writing the City – MINE. Brisbane Powerhouse Festival of Ideas.
Genoa. Light Installation. Sydney Esquisse Festival. Surry Hills
Wink. Permanent animated neon sculpture Brisbane Powerhouse.
2000 Writing the City- Fictional Tourism satellite event for Sydney Biennale, partners Sydney City Council and Artspace.
Toy Town, Roma Street Forum. Brisbane.
Cubby Houses, installation project New Farm Park.
1999 Writing the City- Quivering Dawn Streets. Neon and billboard installation on building facades corner of George & Park St. Sydney.
1998 Writing the City- Eternity, series of billboards Cityrail platforms, Sydney.
Stories My Father Told Me. UTS Gallery & Atrium, Sydney.
Singing up Stones, first person to project images onto the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
1996 Palace of Memories- The Tent. Simultaneous projection work in several galleries in Australia, Singapore and Thailand.
Lurve, ceramic installation, Artspace, Sydney.
Palace of Memories- the Kiss. Outdoor sound and projection work. ABC and UTS sites, Ultimo for Biennale of Sydney.
1995 Palace of Memories- The Tattoo. performance, Artspace, Sydney.
Archaeology of Memory - Stories My Father Told Me, photographic, light and painting installation, University of Technology, Sydney Gallery.
1994/5 Archaeology of Memory XV - An Open Journal. Photographic, fabric and light panel installation, Wollongong City Gallery; The Australia Centre, Manila, Philippines; Ipswich Regional Gallery; Contemporary Arts Centre, Adelaide; Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, Casula Powerhouse, Casula.
The Look performance work, slide and sound installation, Casula Powerhouse, Casula.
1993 The Arcane Territory. Large scale projection/installation, S.H.Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
Willow. matchbook series in various locations including art press and access points.
1992 Archaeology of Memory V. Wallpaper, fabric and sculptural installation, First Draft West, Sydney.
Memories on a Grand Scale. public event/installation, projection and sound work on the Australian Museum facade as part of the City of Sydney Sequa-centenary celebration.
MAJOR PROJECTS
2024- Girt (bysea). Ongoing research project using the folklore, myths and legends of places where land meets water as a defining element of Australian identity. The project uses infrared photography, dance, video works and installation to explore the idea of who we are as defined by our environment. ‘Girt by sea’ is from the Australian anthem and as such relates across ideas of colonialism, migration and the importance historically of the sea and rivers and
the tales tall and true that surround these ideas.
2018/2023 The Crisis Narrative. This series of projects began with residencies in Northern Thailand learning about the Lanna cultures and their determination to continue their traditions within a fraught level of continued occupation. The rewriting of story to cover climate and connection to land. Human Horizon in Bangkok during the early days of covid worked with this. While during and post covid working as the Rupert Bunny Fellow to create a work that brings together the various narratives that describe land and our fears and wonderment.
2013/2018 Hidden. This series of projects explored the folklore and superstition that shape our thoughts and approaches to landscape and country. Ongoing works in Iceland, Svalbard and Norway creating video works and sculptures.
2012/2013 shinyshinycloud. Based on residencies in Malaysia, Iceland and the Abbey in Sydney a series of works exploring the data of landscape by delving visually into the weather by exploring the stories and fantasy world that contain warnings about weather and the landscape and urban scapes around us. A series of radio projects for the ABC about the sounds of the Northern Lights and the reflections of the Saga in contemporary story telling and music.
2005/2012 ShinyShinyWorld. Series of exhibitions, video-based works and installations working with environmental issues in sites across Australia, Denmark, China, North America, London. Residencies in Paris and Saint Tropez, France; on a Russian icebreaker in the High Arctic; on a Norwegian ship to Antarctica and World Heritage sites in the Bay of Biscay; Beijing and Tianjin, China.
1998/2001 Writing the City. Three year program with City of Sydney in lead up to Sydney Olympics. Series of large scale, multi-site projects in Sydney and Brisbane exploring interactive installation of text through cities. Also in Biennale of Sydney and Brisbane Festival of Ideas.
1998 Singing up Stones. Following winning the NSW Woman Artist of the Year, I did the first projection and performance works on the Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge and a lighting grid using Circular Quay buildings and simulcast sound work.
1998/94 Archaeology of Memory. Three year program of series of works exploring memory and public archive. Permanent and temporary works, hosted by Australian Museum, the City of Sydney and Australian Consulate Galleries in Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore.