We are a large studio group that is part of the forward-looking and dynamic creative infrastructure for artists and craftspeople based in the historic town of Colchester in Essex.
Lisa Temple-Cox
Profile
Cabinet
moulage
pisshead II
the double-skinned shed
STATEMENT:
Driven by themes of loss, memory, missing times or places, her recent work has centred on an exploration of the difference between the head/meat and the social construct of the face in an attempt to foster a sense of identity.
Lisa has a compulsion for collection, and a particular fascination for remains – bones, skulls, feathers, shells. These convey such strong recall of their former usage that juxtaposition with other objects and materials creates an elusive sense of half-remembered stories, the mysteriousness of the universe: time and memory encapsulated.
Encapsulation is the key to her practice: by containment she attempts to control her unconscious, and the memories and feelings trapped or dormant within it.
The work shown here is based around the use of text, clay, video, found objects, and photographic images; attempting to evoke the notion of the vanitas, and that feeling of being between two cultures and belonging to neither that colours her communication with the world.
CV:
Selected solo exhibitions / collaborations:
2009
“The Double-Skinned Shed”: residency/installation/exhibition, Benham Gallery, Colchester.
2008
‘The Wearable Vanitas and other work’: Platform Gallery, Mistley
‘Expérience 1: un Squelette Humain’: Benham Gallery, Colchester.
2007
‘Day of the Triffids’: site-specific sculpture, with Natasha Carsberg. Cunlhat, France.
'Enclosure': installation with Tim Skinner and Kim Barclay. Benham Gallery, Colchester.
2006
‘Everything and More’: installation, Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.
‘Georgia’s Footsteps’: Hector Croot, Colchester.
2005
‘Everything and More’: site-specific installation, environmental art, and other work created during residency at the Chateau de Sacy: Picardie, France.
2002
'Luscious', Garden Cafe at the Minories, Colchester.
1999
'Objects Trouves en Boites', Les Livres Gallery, Colchester.
Selected group exhibitions:
2010
“Work in Progress”, end of year MA show; Minories Gallery and Slackspace Gallery, Colchester
2009
“Base”, Co-exist Gallery, Southend: TAP pre-launch show
“Art2Wear:Accoutrements”, Ontario International Airport, Los Angeles, USA.
‘Long Nights’: William Angel Gallery, London.
'Essex Summer of Art': Hylands House, Chelmsford
2008
‘Secrets’: interactive group installation, The Foundry, London.
‘Surrounds’: sculpture trail, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.
‘Wearable Expressions’: Palos Verdes Arts Centre, California.
‘Allotments’: Standing Room at Harrington Mills Studios, Nottingham.
2007
‘I came, I saw’: Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich.
2005
Cuckoo Farm Studios group show, Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings.
2004
'Dust to Dust': University Gallery, Essex University.
2003
‘Challenge the Nail’: Salon des Arts, London.
‘12x12’: Buckenham Gallery, Southwold
2002
‘Mutiny at the Barge House': Lost Property Art live art event, Barge House, Oxo Wharf, London.
‘Up your Art’: Trinity Studios final show, Colchester.
2001
'Showing off: Essex artists': Cressing Temple barns.
2000
'150 Years of Public Libraries': Les Livres Gallery, Colchester.
'Seeing the Words': group exhibit touring Essex libraries.
Residencies:
2008
“Rainforest/Essex” working in the grounds and hothouses of Writtle College (CADE)
2008
John C Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina USA, tutor.
2007
Chantiers des Arts, Cunlhat, France. Group residency, collaboration with Natasha Carsberg.
2005
“Everything and More” : Artist in Residence at the Chateau De Sacy, Picardie, France. Month-long residency informing site-specific installation, art in the environment, and other work.
1998
“Wavering”: week-long group project , working with animator Peter Fluck, composer Glyn Evans, and other artists, to create an interactive art and sound installation. Chelmsford, Essex.
1997
“Ogni Dove”: Artist in Residence at Damanhur, Italy. Two week residency making work inspired by the history and iconography of the community.
Awards and prizes:
2008 “Best in show Accessory” for ‘Vanitas 4:Night Creatures’, Wearable Expressions,
Palos Verdes Arts Centre, California, USA.
2008 “Art in the Built Environment”: Colchester2020 and RIBA Architectural award for
‘Creative Conveniences’, Lion Walk toilets.
Public Collections:
“Flotsam and Jetsam”, Colchester Central Library
“Box for Mark”, Colchester Arts Centre