Rebecca Lisle

Recycling brings new life to an abandoned object and allows an unknown element to exist in my sculpture, encouraging inventiveness and it is important to me that the wood I use is salvaged.
Studying plant biology for my degree inspires many of the forms and structures of my sculpture, sometimes consciously, but often quite unconsciously. This detailed understanding of the anatomy of plants and flowers and how various elements function and fit together informs my approach to building sculpture. In the making process I find I recognise fresh associations when observing how one element of an object might connect with another and so make decisions about how to proceed. The dynamics of shape, pattern and material together with curiosity about the world around us and finding imaginative connections between these starting points, is the basis of my work.

BSc Plant Biology
PGCE
MA Creative Writing

Millfield Open Exhibition 2016
Bath Society of Artists 2017
Society of Women's Artists, 2016 & 2017 & 2019 & 2020 & 2021
Black Swan Open Exhibition 2017 & 2018
Royal West of England Annual Open 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
South West Arts open 2017
Bath Society of Artists 2018 (Prize Winner)
Wells Art Contemporary 2018
Aberdeen Artists 2020