bio
| Studies | |
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| 2007 | Candidate, PhD, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
| 2007 | Diploma of Aboriginal Studies, Eora Aboriginal College, and OTEN, Sydney |
| 2000 | Master of Art, Animation and Interactive Media, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
| 1988 | Graduate Diploma of Film and Television, Animation, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1980-2007 | Various Movement Improvisation workshops with Al Wunder, Hanny Exiner, Andrew Morrish |
| 1979 | Graduate Diploma of Movement and Dance (Completed first year), Institute of Early Childhood Development, Melbourne |
| 1976 | Diploma of Education, English and Art, Melbourne State College |
| 1971 | Diploma of Art, Painting and Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1969 | Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne, (Completed English major, Philosophy minor) |
| 1968 | Night student, National Gallery School of Art, Melbourne |
| 1962-66 | Theatre School student, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne |
| Projects | |
| 2002- 04 | Icemelt |
| An animated film and an interactive work on CDR-OM (42 days in Antarctica) An installation of Antarctic art work in mixed media developed on a Fellowship with the Australian Antarctic Division and funded by the Australia Council's New Media Fund. 2004 | |
| 2002- 03 | Imagining a Different View |
| An animated Antarctic Journal on CD-ROM. Author/Producer. Commissioned by the Australian Antarctic Division, 2003. | |
| 1999- 01 | Roget's Circular |
| A CDROM, Roget's Circular , and associated art work was developed collaboratively with Tasmanian based artist Melissa Smith and exhibited at Gallery 101, Melbourne, as part of the Centenary of Federation celebrations in 2001. The CD-ROM was integrated with the Macquarie Thesaurus and published by Macquarie Library in 2000. | |
| 1999- 00 | A Little Skiting on the Side |
| An interactive CDROM was developed in 1999 with the Flinders Island community as an Identity Distinct project, funded by Tasmanian Regional Arts through the Australia Council. | |
| Events | Exhibitions | Screenings | |
| 2008 | Sur Polar, animation, objects, Buenos Aires |
| 2008 | Opening Adagio Gallery, animation, objects, Sydney |
| 2007 | Antarctic Midwinter Festival exhibition, screening, Hobart |
| 2006 | Changing Nature (Greenpeace Australia Pacific), Sydney |
| 2006 | Antarctica is Melting, m.a.d., Sydney |
| 2005 | Antarctica - the experience, Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney |
| 2005 | Artist in Residence Retrospective, Scotch Oakburn Centre of Visual and Performing Arts, Tasmania |
| 2004 | Antarctic Journeys - Meadowbank Gallery, Tasmania. |
| 2004 | Icemelt, Antarctic multimedia installation, Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney |
| 2004 | Antarctic artifacts, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 2004 | Icemelt - Antarctic multimedia installation, s.p.a.c.e. gallery, Launceston |
| 2004 | Flying Carpet touring exhibition, Iceland, Spain. |
| 2003 | Mixed media work, Octagon, Stanley Artworks Studio Gallery |
| 2003 | Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania. |
| 2003 | 42 digital prints, Interactive CDROM, Impressions of Antarctica, The Australian Antarctic Division, the Presiding Officer's Exhibition Area at Parliament House, Canberra |
| 2002 | Paintings, A Life and Death Show, Stables Gallery, Cleveland, Tasmania |
| 2002 | Antarctic journal and pastel drawings, Antarctic Winter Festival, State Library of Tasmania. |
| 2002 | Drawing, The Albury Drawing exhibition, Albury Gallery, Victoria |
| 2002 | Drawings, paintings, The Midwinter Festival, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart |
| 2001 | Digital prints, Workings of the Mind - Melbourne Prints 1960s to the 1990s, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition |
| 2001 | Interactive installation, drawings, digital prints and paintings, Roget's Circular, Gallery 101, Melbourne |
| 2001 | Interactive CD-ROM, Roget's Circular, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 2001 | Interactive installation, drawings, digital prints and paintings, Roget's Circular, Tasmanian Regional Arts, Tasmanian State Tour |
| 2000 | Animation installation, Stand 33, Gallery 101, Melbourne. Art Fair 2000 |
| 2000 | Digital prints, SQuaRE, Gallery 101, Melbourne |
| 1999 | Painting, Review '99 / Curators' Choice, Gallery 101, Melbourne |
| 1999 | Animation, DownPAT, Tasdance state touring programme |
| 1998 | Drawings, paintings, and interactive CD-ROM, Terra Incognita, Gallery 101, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Animation, Fishfingers, with Tasdance state touring programme |
| 1997 | Drawings, paintings, and interactive CD-ROM work in progress, Terra Incognita, Snakepit Gallery, Tasmania. |
| 1997 | Film, Beware of Pedestrians, SBS TV, Eat Carpet |
| 1996 | Painting, Re-view '96; Gallery 101, Melbourne |
| 1996 | Film, drawing, paintings, Moving Pictures, Snakepit Gallery, Launceston |
| 1996 | Film, Beware of Pedestrians, SBS TV, Eat Carpet |
| 1995 | Film, Beware of Pedestrians, Melbourne International Film Festival, Valhalla Cinema |
| 1995 | Film, Beware of Pedestrians, Melbourne Fringe Festival, St. Kilda |
| 1995 | Film, Beware of Pedestrians, International Animation Conference, Ottowa, Canada |
| 1995 | Film, Beware of Pedestrians, drawings and paintings Gallery 101, Melbourne. |
| 1994 | Touch screen installation, The Perfect Dream, Next Wave Festival |
| 1994 | Art and Technology Programme |
| 1994 | Film, The Infinite Tree, Melbourne International Film Festival, State Film Centre |
| 1994 | Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, represented by Gallery 101. |
| 1994 | Film, The Infinite Tree, Melbourne International Film Festival, Astor Cinema |
| 1994 | Film, The Perfect Dream OSCHI International Ergonomics Convention, Melbourne University |
| 1994 | Animation for Company in Space interactive dance piece The Navigators - Mapping the Dream |
| 1994 | Becket Theatre, Malthouse, Melbourne, and the Australian National Gallery, Virtual Reality Biennale, Canberra. |
| 1993 | Computer animation and digital prints, Art Art x Numbers, Gallery 101, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Computer Animations, Green Mill National Dance Project, Merlyn Theatre, The Malthouse, Melbourne. |
| 1992 | Film, Sophie, drawings and paintings, Solander Gallery, ACT |
| 1992 | Computer animation and digital prints, ArtTech, Next Wave Festival, National Gallery of Victoria |
| 1992 | Computer animation and digital prints, Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, represented by Gallery 101. |
| 1992 | Film, The Perfect Partner, completed |
| 1991 | Film, Moving Pictures, Screenspace, Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 1990 | Film, Seasons, Auzgraph, Melbourne |
| 1990 | Film, Seasons, Virtual Landscapes, Artspace, Sydney |
| 1989 | Drawings and Paintings, Reflections Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Pastel Drawings, Pepperel's, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Seasons Experimenta, MIMA, State Film Centre, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Film, Light Journey; State Film Centre, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Film, Morrish Dance, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Drawings, Stardust Cafe, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Film, Self Portrait, MIMA, State Film Centre, Melbourne |
| 1985 | Sculpture, Stone to Forest - An Emerging, by Barbara Weiss, Iceberg Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1983 | Paintings, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1981 | Film, Still Lives, Melbourne International Film Festival, Palais Theatre |
| 1980 | Painting, Hawthorn City Art Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1979 | Drawings, objects, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1978 | Installation, The Map Show, Ewing Gallery & George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne |
| 1978 | Dance Films, La Mama Theatre, Melbourne |
| 1977 | Drawings, paintings, Mornington Print Gallery, Victoria |
| 1977 | Installation, The Grid Show, Ewing Gallery & George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne |
| 1976 | Painting, The Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1976 | Film performance, The Ewing & George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne |
| 1975 | Films, Communicating Art, Ewing & George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne |
| 1974 | Mugs. Prints & films, Ewing & George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne |
| 1966 | Dancer, Giselle, Swan Lake, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne |
| 1965 | Dancer, Voyageur, Contes Heraldique, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne |
| 1964 | Dancer, Bottom's Dream, Moulin de Baquette, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne |
| 1963 | Dancer, Sylvia, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne |
| 1962 | Dancer, The Nutcracker Suite, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne |
| Residencies | |
| 2005 | presentations / workshops, Tom Roberts Festival, Inverell, NSW |
| 2002 | multimedia / mixed media, Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Division, Humanities Programme |
| 2000 | multimedia, Flinders Island, Tasmania |
| 1999 | multimedia / performance, Tasdance, Tasmania |
| 1999 | multimedia / performance, Helyer College, Tasmania |
| 1998 | animation, Launceston College, Tasmania |
| 1997 | multimedia / mixed media, Scotch Oakburn College |
| 1995 | multimedia, Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania |
| 1994 | installation, Wesley College, Melbourne |
| 1992 | animation, Manangatang P-12, Victoria |
| 1989 | animation, Ardeer High School, Victoria |
| Teaching | |
| 2005 | Casual teacher, English & Visual Arts, Tempe High School, Sydney |
| 2005 | Part- time temporary teacher, English & Visual Arts, Conservatorium High School, Sydney |
| 1998 | Part-time teacher, Multimedia, Launceston College, Tasmania |
| 1997 | Casual teacher, Art, Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania |
| 1996 | Sessional lecturer, History of Dance Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston. |
| 1993-94 | Sessional lecturer, Post Graduate studies in Computer Animation, School of Film and TV, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1993-94 | Sessional lecturer in Drawing, La Trobe University, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Sessional tutor, Animation, Swinburne Film & TV School, Victoria |
| 1992 | Temporary part-time teacher, Design, Cheltenham High School, Victoria |
| 1987 | Part-time teacher, Arts/craft, Caulfield Montessori School, Victoria |
| 1985 | Drawing through Movement teacher, Studio 4 (Hanny Exiner), Brunswick Street, Brunswick, Melbourne |
| 1977-79 | Part-time teacher, Art and Media Studies (Animation), Wesley College, Prahran. |
| Related work/Employment | |
| 2006-08 | Marker, NSW English skills tests (ELLA & BST), Australian Centre for Education Research (ACER), Sydney |
| 2002 | Convenor, A Life and Death Show, Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland, Tasmania |
| 2001 | Interactive Author, Tasmanian Wood Design Collection CD-ROM, Pub. TECC |
| 1995-97 | Advisor, Arts Tasmania Events Panel (dance/visual arts/multimedia) |
| 1994 | Curator, Bitmap 101 for the Art and Technology Programme of the Next Wave Festival. |
| 1994 | Curator, Bitmap 101 - National Exhibition of Electronic Art, Next Wave Festival, Gallery 101, Melbourne. |
| 1993 | Judge, ATOM Film Awards (Animation), Melbourne. |
| 1992 | Co-Curator; ArTech, Next Wave Festival, for Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria. |
| 1991 | New Media Resources Developer, The Animation Network, Melbourne. |
| 1989 | Assessor, Australian Film Commission, New Image Research Program. |
| 1989 | Background Artist, The Greatest Tune on Earth, Children's Television Foundation. |
| 1989 | Animator, People First of Australia Unit. |
| 1989 | Animator of front credits, The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, ABC TV. |
| 1989 | Writer, Electronic Arts, Australian Multimedia Magazine (Sydney). |
| 1989 | Judge, ATOM Film awards (Innaugural Interactive Media awards), Melbourne. |
| 1989 | Tasmanian Electronic Commerce Centre. |
| Prizes / sponsorships / grants | |
| 2007 | Australian Post Graduate Award, University of New South Wales |
| 2004 | Macromedia sponsorship for development of Antarctic Portrayals (working title) |
| 2002 | Australian Antarctic Division, Humanities berth, Aurora Australis V7. |
| 2002 | Macromedia sponsorship for Antarctic residency, Aurora Australis V7. |
| 2002 | Australia Council New Media Grant for development of new work |
| 1999-01 | Macromedia, Department of State Development, Tasmania, and MINOLTA for the development of Roget's Circular |
| 1998 | Computerland and Macromedia sponsorships for interactive CD-ROM, Islands |
| 1997 | Computerland, Autodesk and Macromedia sponsorships for interactive CD-ROM, Terra Incognita. |
| 1995 | Melbourne Fringe Festival Special Commendation Award, for film, Beware of Pedestrians. |
| 1994 | Australian Film Commission grant for film, Beware of Pedestrians. |
| 1994 | Redflex touch screens sponsorship for touch screen installation, The Perfect Dream and the interactive CD-ROM, Roget's Circular. |
| 1991 | Australian Film Commission Grant for film, Sophie. |
| 1991 | Telematics Trust Grant development funding for educational software in computer animation. |
| 1981 | Australian Film Commission post-production grant for film, Still Lives. |
| 1974 | Australian Film Institute grant for film, Still Lives. |
| 1971 | National Gallery of Victoria Drawing Prize. |
| Publications | |
| 2004 | Flying Carpet, Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela 2004 ISBN:84-453-3745-9 |
| 2002 | Roget's Circular, CD-ROM author Lisa Roberts, with art work by Lisa Roberts & Melissa Smith, illuminating the Macquarie Thesaurus. Pub. Macquarie Library, Australia. |
| 2001 | Catalogue: Workings of the Mind - Melbourne Prints 1960s to the 1990s. |
| 2001 | CyberArts 2001, International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica,Pub. SpringerWein, New York |
| 2001 | Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition |
| 1995 | Beware of Pedestrians, exhibition catalogue |
| 1994 | Island, Jan-Feb 1994 issue, front cover, reproduction of painting, 'Portrait of Carmel Bird' |
| 1994 | Dance Therapy Redefined, by Johanna Exiner and Dennis Kelynack with Naomi Aichison |
| 1994 | Jenny Czulak, illustrated by Lisa Roberts, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinios, USA. |
| 1994 | Australian Contemporary Art Fair Catalogue. |
| 1994 | Next Wave Art and Technology Catalogue. |
| 1993 | Metro, No. 92, A.T.O.M. journal, pp. 54-5 |
| 1992 | Australian Art & Artists, by J. Rollinson and S. Melville; Science Press, Australia. |
| 1992 | Picture This, Careers in Visual Arts, Crafts & Design, Arts Training Victoria, pp. 36-7. |
| 1992 | Interacta, No. 3992, A.C.T.A. journal, pp. 21-3. |
| 1992 | Lowdown, Vol. 14, Youth Performing Arts 5, pp. 7-11. |
| 1992 | A Buyer's Guide to Australian Art, by Graham Ryles, Mandarin Books. |
| 1991 | Australian Women Artists, by Max Germaine. |
| 1986 | Drawing in Australia, by Janet McKenzie, Macmillan Australia. |
| 1984 | Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Vol.11, Alan McCulloch, Hutchison, Australia, p. 1031. |
| 1983 | Australian Artists and Galleries in New Zealand and Australia, by Max Germaine |
| 1983 | Joey's Eggshell People, by Tony Scanlon, illustrated by Lisa Roberts; Oxford University Press. |
| 1978 | Cinema Papers, April - June, Issue 16. |
| Collections | |
| Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Melbourne State College, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| The State Bank, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Queensland University of Technology, Queensland | |
| State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania | |
| The Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania | |
| The Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Private collections in Australia, the UK and Indonesia | |
