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Lisa Roberts is an artist whose practice is based on drawing and human movement. Her formal studies include dance, visual arts, animation, Indigenous perspectives and Antarctic perceptions. Her PhD research project (2007-2010) led to the development of a lexicon of primal gestural forms. These forms are used in animation and other media to expand perceptions of climate change data through gesture and line drawing.

Animations can be viewed at antarcticanimation.com and creaturecast.org (Dunn Lab, Brown University). These are published online under a Creative Commons Share Alike license.

Animations and art works are presented at science conferences and art exhibitions.

Studies
2007-2010	Candidate for PhD Media Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2007	Graduate Diploma Aboriginal Studies, Eora Aboriginal College, and OTEN, Sydney
2000	Master of Art Animation and Interactive Media, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1988	Graduate Diploma Animation, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1980-2007	Movement Improvisation studies with Hanny Exiner and Al Wunder
1979	Graduate Diploma studies Movement and Dance, 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	Candidate for Bachelor of Arts Completed English major, Philosophy minor, University of Melbourne
1968	Night School Studies Drawing, National Gallery School of Art, Melbourne
1962-66	Theatre School Studies Classical ballet, Victorian Ballet Guild, Melbourne

Projects
2007- 09	Antarctic Animation
	An on-line animated inquiry into how gesture and line can be used to combine objective and subjective knowledge of Antarctica. Undertaken as research for a doctorate administered through the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.
2002- 04	Icemelt
	An animated film and an interactive work on CD-ROM (42 days in Antarctica) An installation of Antarctic art work in mixed media developed through 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. Commissioned by the Australian Antarctic Division, 2003.
1999- 01	Roget's Circular
	An animated interactive CD-ROM, Roget's Circular, and associated art work were developed in collaboration with Tasmanian 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 CD-ROM developed in collaboration with the Flinders Island community, led by Annabel Apps, as an Identity Distinct project, funded by Tasmanian Regional Arts through the Australia Council for the Arts.

Events \| Exhibitions \| Screenings
2010	Antarctic Visions Conference Presentation: Antarctic Animation: Antarctic energies (digital animation), Univerity of Tasmania School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania
2009	Polar Palooza Education and public outreach for 2007-2009, the 4th International Polar Year, and the 50th anniversary of IGY and the birth of the Space Age. Australian tour
2009	GLOBEC Open Science Meeting on changes in the global marine environment, Antarctic Animation, Victoria, Canada
2008	Sur Polar: Art of Antarctica, animation, objects, Buenos Aires & Mexico City
2008	Adagio Gallery, animation, objects, Sydney
2007	Antarctic Midwinter Festival, screening, Hobart
2006	Changing Nature, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, objects, Sydney
2006	Antarctica is Melting, m.a.d., Sydney
2005	Antarctica - the experience, paintings and objects, Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
2005	Artist in Residence Retrospective, Scotch Oakburn Centre of Visual and Performing Arts, Tasmania
2004	Antarctic Journeys, paintings, Meadowbank Gallery, Tasmania.
2004	Icemelt, multimedia installation, Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
2004	Antarctic artifacts, Mori Gallery, Sydney
2004	Icemelt, multimedia installation, s.p.a.c.e. gallery, Launceston
2003	Ten Days on the Island, Stanley Artworks Studio Gallery, mixed media work, Octagon,Tasmania
2003	Impressions of Antarctica42 digital prints, Interactive CDROM, , The Australian Antarctic Division, the Presiding Officer's Exhibition Area at Parliament House, Canberra
2002	Life and Death Show, Stables Gallery, Cleveland, Tasmania
2002	Antarctic Winter Festival, Antarctic journal and pastel drawings, State Library of Tasmania.
2002	The Albury Drawing exhibition, drawing, Albury Gallery, Victoria
2002	The Midwinter Festival, Drawings, paintings, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart
2001	Workings of the Mind - Melbourne Prints 1960s to the 1990s, digital prints, 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	SQuaRE, digital prints, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1999	Curators' Choice/Review '99, painting, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1999	DownPAT, animation, Tasdance state touring programme
1998	Drawings, paintings, and interactive CD-ROM, Terra Incognita, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1998	Fishfingers, animation, Tasdance state touring programme
1997	Terra Incognita, drawings, paintings, and interactive CD-ROM work in progress, Snakepit Gallery, Tasmania.
1997	Beware of Pedestrians, film, SBS TV, Eat Carpet
1996	Re-view '96, painting, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1996	Moving Pictures, film, drawing, paintings, Snakepit Gallery, Launceston
1996	Beware of Pedestrians, film, SBS TV, Eat Carpet
1995	Melbourne International Film Festival film, Beware of Pedestrians, Valhalla Cinema
1995	Melbourne Fringe Festival , film, Beware of Pedestrians, Melbourne
1995	Beware of Pedestrians, film, International Animation Conference, Ottowa, Canada
1995	Gallery 101 , film, drawings and paintings, Beware of Pedestrians, Melbourne.
1994	Next Wave Festival, film, The Perfect Dream, touch screen animated interactive installation,
1994	Art and Technology Programme
1994	Experimenta, film, The Infinite Tree, State Film Centre
1994	Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, film, The Infinite Tree , Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, represented by Gallery 101.
1994	Melbourne International Film Festival , 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	Full-time teacher, Visual Arts and English, 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 and Jenny Czulak, illustrated by Lisa Roberts, Pub. 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
The Limbo Collection, Melbourne, Victoria, and Launceston, Tasmania
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