The Metacognition of Watching Yourself Watching2024
Transparent Print Mounted to Acrylic - Nylon Wire & Ceiling Hooks. Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Gold Mono Silk - Acrylic Face Mount & Metal Shadow Frame.
“Metacognition” is part of a series that explores notions of light, time, and photography. Surveying the relationship between light and time in the context of architectural space, to produce sensory and evocative colour field photography.
Situated within the realm of the present-moment experience of sensory phenomena it investigates the variability of perception and the physiological and interactive dynamics of the viewer.
Transparent and reflective materials create a double mirror effect, that seeks to draw the “viewer” into the uncertain depths of the translucent photo objects. The reflective acrylic surfaces constantly and unambiguously duplicate the present moment, operating in real-time now. This generation of perceptual effects invites us to rethink our realities; questioning how we see ourselves in physical, architectural and internal, psychological spaces.
Exhibited
2024 Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize - PhotoAcess - Canberra
2024 CLIP award -Perth Centre For Photography at The Naval Store - Fremantle - WA
2024 Everyday Wonder - Five Walls Project Space - Melbourne
2024 Fisher’s Ghost Award - Campbelltown Arts Centre - NSW
Exhibited
2023 FISHER’S GHOST AWARD - Campbelltown Arts Centre - NSW
2022 Conversations with My-Self and Others - M16 Artspace - Canberra
Self-Talk (Chromatic Aberration)
Each afternoon last winter, I looked forward to seeing a small shape of light travel across the wall behind my computer for a short period of time. Within the series Conversations with My-Self and Others I explore and exaggerate the tiny perfect moments … the “right now” - that isolation led me to contemplate and appreciate.
My photo media works are impressionistic and ephemeral documentations of the everyday. Simple colour driven abstractions that engage with the temporal nature of physical space and light. Although factual, the photographs are detached from physical or concrete reality and resistant to any narrative sense. There is a pressure to drift in the present.
Without objective context, the compositions and colour relationships become a subject in themselves. A non-objective “Visual Conversation”.
Exhibited
2022 RAVENSWOOD WOMEN’S ART PRIZE - Sydney
2022 Conversations with My-Self and Others - M16 Artspace - Canberra
2021 FISHER’S GHOST AWARD - Campbelltown Arts Centre - NSW
2021 KAAF ART PRIZE - Semi Finalist - Online Exhibition
Lisa Stonham’s Artworks are painterly investigations of texture and colour, light and shade. Photo-media that explores themes of temporality and ephemerality through depictions of the built environment. Central to these images is the ever-evolving relationship between light and time in the context of architectural space.
Exhibited
2022 FISHER’S GHOST AWARD - Campbelltown Art Centre - NSW
2022 Conversations with My-Self and Others - M16 Artspace - Canberra
2021 HEAD-ON OPEN PROGRAM - 107 Projects - Redfern NSW
Conversation (in Red and Green) 2020 is a colour driven abstraction that engages with the temporal nature of physical space and light. An impressionistic and ephemeral documentation of the everyday.
Lisa works predominately in the field using existing locations and available light; in this instance a school toilet block and the floor of a ferry in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Presented as a diptych, the sensibility of ‘real’ is lost to geometric shapes of floating colour that are suggestive of a greater field.
Without objective context the compositions and colour relationships become a subject in themselves. A non-objective ‘visual conversation’.
Exhibited
2022 ARTICULATE PROJECT SPACE - Leichhardt NSW
2021 HEAD-ON OPEN PROGRAM - 107 Projects - Redfern NSW
2020 FISHER’S GHOST AWARD - Campbelltown Arts Centre - NSW
2020 SUNSHINE COAST ART PRIZE - Caloundra Regional Gallery- QLD
In “Conversations with My-Self and Others”, Lisa Stonham explores and exaggerates the tiny perfect moments … the 'right now' - that a more isolated and contemplative existence led her to appreciate. She captures ephemeral and impressionistic moments within the context of the everyday. These colour-driven abstractions engage with the temporal nature of light and physical space.
Working in the field with existing locations and available light, Lisa’s work is at a concourse between documentary and abstraction. Although factual, her photographs are detached from physical or concrete reality and resistant to any narrative sense. Presented without objective context, the compositions and colour relationships become a subject in themselves. A non-objective 'visual conversation’.
Lisa Stonham’s artworks capture the temporary, ephemeral and momentary through immovable man-made landscapes. Documenting the ever-evolving relationship between light and time in the context of architectural space, to produce sensory and evocative colour field photographs.
Exhibited
2022 CLIP AWARD - Perth Centre for Photography - WA
2022 Conversations with My-Self and Others - M16 Artspace - Canberra
Exhibited
2019 RAVENSWOOD WOMEN’S ART PRIZE - Sydney
Untitled Scene
제목 없는 장면
This photograph was taken at Haeundae Beach in South Korea, an area of explosive development.
I feel that there is dichotomy between the constructed and natural world at this location and in this photograph.
The corrugated framing captures the ambiguity between a landscape and a portrait image, yet the couple, hovering at the edge of land and water, draw my interest because of their narrative possibilities.
Exhibited
2020 ADD-ON - Head-On Photo Festival - Sydney
2020 SALON - M16 Artspace - ONLINE
2018 IRIS AWARD - Perth Centre Of Photography - WA
Exhibited
2019 RAVENSWOOD AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ART PRIZE - Finalist Exhibition - Sydney
2018 FISHER’S GHOST AWARD (Photography) - Campbelltown Arts Centre - NSW
2018 SALON - Centre For Contemporary Photography - Melbourne
Exhibited
2016 CLIP AWARD - Perth Centre for Photography - WA
2016 FISHER’S GHOST AWARD (Photography) - Campbelltown Arts centre - NSW
“Swimming Pool” is an impressionistic urban landscape that was taken in Busan, South Korea. It is part of a series of work that explores transitory states and actions with a focus on the temporal nature of both physical space and time.
“Swimming Pool” presents the everyday isolated from narrative or subject. Although clearly urban and familiar, the image is atmospheric and visceral.
The factual is absorbed into abstract shapes of painterly colour that suggest a greater field. Dimensional layers of focus and enlarged foreground textures further dissipate the ‘reality’ of the photograph.
Exhibited
2016 COLLECTIVE - Perth Centre for Photography - WA
2015 KAAF ART PRIZE - Korean Cultural Centre - Sydney