ABOUT | lisa ellen hughes

Bio

UNSW Art, Design & Architecture

Bachelor of Fine Art
Artist

Lisa Ellen Hughes is a multi-disciplined emerging, Newcastle-based artist who graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNSW Art & Design and Architecture. Her mediums of specialty are in animation, illustration, drawing, digital/video art, and painting and installation art. Lisa’s research investigates various constraints of nature versus human. These ecological habitats and human existence, mirror social behaviours and the notion of the survival of the fittest within a habitat. Her technique of layering and thin think painting style gives depth to the narrative of material.

She translates urban and natural landscapes to envelope the essence of intermixed textured surfaces, symbolism, and the poetic interpretation of an abstract fluidity. A conversation is created with works embodying marks left by humans on structures, pavements, and nature. Recording the memory and process of destructive intervention and communication left in the environment.

Achievements

2023 - Bent Art Prize - People's Choice

2022 - Life in Colour – LGBTQ+ Art prize – Winner Category A (Experienced and Professional Artist)
2021 - Macquarie Group Emerging Artist -The Land & its Psyche - Awarded the OAM Nick Waterlow Highly Commended

2020 - Jenny Birt Award UNSW Art & Design - Highly Commended

2012 - Winner Hodges Creative Award - Royal Queensland Art Society.
2010 - Highly Commended- Traditional Section - Drummoyne Art Prize.
2010 - Highly Commended - Traditional Section - Lane Cove Art Prize

Acquisitions

2021 – Wally’s Wharf, acrylic, animation on canvas – Acquisition by Macquarie Group Emerging Art Prize, The Land, and Its Psyche

2020 – Burwood Flag project by Burwood Council

2022 – Burwood Hoarding Project by Burwood Council

Publications

SM Daily News – New York 2023

Solo and Group Art Exhibitions

2024 - Newcastle T’ Shirt show – The Creator Incubator

2024 - Sassy Kunst – The Owens Collective – Sponsored by Newcastle Pride

2024 - Clouds 3 - Newcastle Art Space

2024 - Orgy of Art – Miss Wolf Bar

2024 - Staff Exhibition - TAFE Hunter Street Art School

2024 - Cash, Carry Claim - The Creator Incubator

2024 - Bent Art Prize – Rex Livingston Art and Object Art Gallery

2024 - Bittersweet Symphony – The Curator Incubator

2023 - Staff exhibition – TAFE Hunter Street Art School

2023 - Bent Art Prize – Rex Livingston Art and Object Art Gallery

2023 - Bold and the beautiful – joint exhibition

2022 - Unabbreviated – Newcastle Museum - Group Exhibition

2022 - "Yellow" M.A.D.S Art Gallery Italy Milan - Group Exhibition

2021 - "In good company" Gaffa Art Gallery - Group Annual Graduation show

2021 - "Utopian Expansion" solo exhibition - The Art Passage
2010 - 2012, 2013 Group Show, 307 Art Gallery North Bridge Sydney
2009 - "Group Grope Show" - Ma Gallery Surry Hills

2018 - "My Happy Place", Manly Art Collab

Finalist in Art Prizes

2024 - Clouds 3 - Newcastle Art Space

2023 - Bent Art Prize – Rex Livingston Art and Object Art Gallery

2022 - Life in Colour – LGBTQ+ Art prize

2022 - Art/Edit + interior design Self represented artist prize - Finalist

2021 - Macquarie Group Emerging Artist -The Land & its Psyche - Awarded the OAM Nick Waterlow Highly Commended

2021 - Waverley Art School Print Prize - Finalist

2021 - Gallipoli Art Prize - Finalist

2020 - Burwood Art Prize

2020 - Jenny Birt Award UNSW Art & Design - Highly Commended

2019 - Tim Olsen Drawing Prize

2019 - Waverley Art Prize

2016 - Art in the Hills Art Prize

2015 - Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Alan Somerville

2015 - The Kings Art Prize

2015 - Mosman Art Prize - Judge Michael Rolfe, Chief Executive Officer, Museums and Galleries NSW

2015 - Hunters Hill Art Prize
2015 - Art in the Hills

2014 - Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Nick Vickers

2014 - The Kings Art Prize

2013 - WWAS Palette Show
2013 - Northbridge art prize
2013 - Waverley Art Prize
2013 - Hunters Hill Art Prize
2012 - Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Anne Cape and Alan Somerville
2011 - Northbridge Art Prize - Judge Wendy Sharpe
2009 - Mosman Art Prize - Judge Margaret Olley AC
2008 - Waverley Art prize
2009 - Alvaro Art Prize Bowral Art Society
2007 - 2009 John Copes Watercolour Art Prize Bowral Art Society