Biography
Lisa was born in New Zealand, is of Mexican and New Zealand heritage. She has lived in London for two decades. She studied painting at Unitec School of Architecture and Design in Auckland New Zealand.
Lisa has exhibited her paintings frequently in the UK and in Europe and New Zealand. Currently a collection of ten of her paintings are being exhibited with Little Van Gogh as part of temporary exhibitions in corporate spaces. Recently she exhibited her work at Elms Gallery, Applecart Arts, Tower Gallery, Hoxton Gallery, Surgery.Gallery London, Five Years Gallery, Gallery46, and Red Door Studios. She was awarded an artist commission in 2021 as part of Nine Elms Advent Calendar Art Trail. Additionally in 2021 she was selected for ArtHelix - Life Interrupted. In 2007 she was selected for Jerwood Contemporary Painters and Bow Arts Open, 2012. Her work has been covered in The Sunday Tribune, Trebuchet Magazine, AN Magazine and The Times. She has exhibited both in the UK and abroad. Some of her curated projects include: Obsolete Desire (2016), Hey Days (2014), Candy Mountains (2011), In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly (2011). Her work has been collected as part of the James Wallace Collection (NZ).
Lisa has exhibited her paintings frequently in the UK and in Europe and New Zealand. Currently a collection of ten of her paintings are being exhibited with Little Van Gogh as part of temporary exhibitions in corporate spaces. Recently she exhibited her work at Elms Gallery, Applecart Arts, Tower Gallery, Hoxton Gallery, Surgery.Gallery London, Five Years Gallery, Gallery46, and Red Door Studios. She was awarded an artist commission in 2021 as part of Nine Elms Advent Calendar Art Trail. Additionally in 2021 she was selected for ArtHelix - Life Interrupted. In 2007 she was selected for Jerwood Contemporary Painters and Bow Arts Open, 2012. Her work has been covered in The Sunday Tribune, Trebuchet Magazine, AN Magazine and The Times. She has exhibited both in the UK and abroad. Some of her curated projects include: Obsolete Desire (2016), Hey Days (2014), Candy Mountains (2011), In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly (2011). Her work has been collected as part of the James Wallace Collection (NZ).
EXHIBITIONS
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2015
2012
2007-2011
BayArt, Cardiff
The Lowry, Salford Quays
Competitions, prizes and awards:
2014 East London Painting Prize, first round
2012 Bay Art Gallery, Arts Council funding, Needles Eye
2007 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London
https://jerwoodarts.org/programme/jerwood-contemporary-painters-2007/
Residencies and Talks:
2019 Passaggiatina, Atina, Italy. Residency, performance and exhibition
2013 Culturanze, Salento, Italy, artist talk and presentation of music videos
2012 Fowle Hall Features Artist Residency and Exhibition, Paddock Wood, UK
2012 Franko B, Salon, Bow Arts Trust, artist talk and presentation
2010 St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls, artist talk and workshop
Performances
2012 Goldsmiths Relay, Performance Group Research Group
2012 Goldsmiths Relay stage, Listen Lisse musical performance with live projection by Constance Whiston
2012 Studio 1:1, Pact, Performance Group Research Group
2011 Servant Jazz Quarters, In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly
Curated exhibitions
2016 Obsolete Desire, London
2014 Hey Days, Bermondsey Project
2011 Candy Mountains, Arbeit, London
2011 In An Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly, Servant Jazz Quarters, London
Publications and Interviews:
2022 Social Convention
2021 Unseen! New Words and Visuals
2020 The Sunday Tribune
2012 The Artpoint interview with Phillip F Clarke, New York
2012 Trebuchet Magazine, Transition Gallery's First Thursdays
2007 Jerwood Contemporary Painters Catalogue 2007
2007 AN Magazine – Jerwood Painters show
2007 The Times – Jerwood Painters
Collections:
James Wallace Collection (NZ)
Education:
2018; Bachelor of Arts, Couns - Glasgow Caledonian University
1998 Bachelor of Design – Painting, Unitec, School of Architecture and Design, Auckland, New Zealand
1994 Foundation - Painting, drawing, set design, professional practice, TV and video, School of Architecture and Design, Auckland, New Zealand
Downloads:
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007 catalogue
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
2024
- Big, Tower Gallery, E13, Group Exhibition
- 16-24 March, Elms Gallery
- Little Van Gogh, Exhibition of ten paintings in Situ
2023
- Tower Gallery, Summer Exhibition
- Applecart Arts, Newham Kaleidoscope, London Festival of Architecture 2023 (L.F.A.)
- February, Immortal Week, Hoxton Gallery London, Group Show
- Little Van Gogh, Exhibition of ten paintings in Situ
2022
- Saints of the Machine, Surgery.Gallery, Solo Show, New works by Lisa McKendrik
- Symbols of the Supernatural, Five Years Gallery, Group Show
- We're Back, The Gate Library
- Newham Artists Group Show, Red Door Studios
- Little Van Gogh, Exhibition of ten paintings in Situ
2021
- Alchemist, Embassy Gardens, Nine Elms Advent Calendar Art Trail
- Gallery 46, Can We Ever Know the Meaning of These Objects
- Artsy - ArtHelix - Life Interrupted - Painting During the Pandemic - Shim Art Network
- Stratosphere - Digital Art Week, Beijing
- Newham Lockdown Window Art Trail
2020
- Hoxton Gallery, Mystery Cult No.5
- Hart Lane Gallery, Atina Artist Residency Group Show, Jan 25
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - Centrica PLC, Windsor
- Artists Responding To. Online Gallery
- Cantanone, Atina, Artist Residency group exhibition, 29 & 30 August
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - Gherkin Building London
- No Format Gallery, London, live performance
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - Napp, Cambridge
- Gallery 46, Bethnal Green London, LIMINALITY
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - Gherkin Building, London
- IKLECTIK, Beyond the Mask, Works on Paper
- Modern Panic, Apiary Studios, Performance
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - Carswell Gould, Southampton
- Obsolete Desire - Group Show, 11 Market Way
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - Pinsent Masons, Birmingham / Interel, London / Meggitt PLC
- View of Delft - New Court Gallery, Repton
- Studio 1:1, Art Converters
- AVDepot2, Video and live cctv installation, ExFed
2015
- Little Van Gogh, Work in Situ - EY, Canary Wharf
- Heads - Group Exhibition, Studio One Gallery
- Pancakes and Booze Art Show, Studio Spaces
- Hey Days! Bermondsey Project, London
- Xylonite Arts, Open, London
- Red Xmas, Studio 1:1, London
- Art Converters, Studio 1:1, London
- Needle's Eye, New Court Gallery, Repton
2012
- Bow Arts Open, Bermondsey Project, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith, Skye Sherwin (Arts writer, Guardian), Emilie Faure (White Cube) and Rosamond Murdoch (The Nunnery).
- Day of the Dead, Vyner St, London
- Needle's Eye, BayArt, Cardiff
- Fowle Hall Features Artist Residency and Exhibition, Paddock Wood
- BAT Pack III, Mile End Art Pavilion
- Needle's Eye, Transition Gallery
- Islington Arts Factory, Fundraising Exhibition, London
- Equinox, Transition Gallery, London
2007-2011
- Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition 2007
BayArt, Cardiff
The Lowry, Salford Quays
- In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly, Servant Jazz Quarters
- Auratica Fantastica, New Zealand
- Candy Mountains, Arbeit
- Little Benefits, Vyner St, London
- Open Open, Swiss Cottage Library, London
- The Illusion of Art, Courtyard Theatre, London
- Bat Pack I, Mile End Arts Pavilion
- P1 Space, Bow Arts Trust Open Studios, London
- ICA Nash Room, Going Postal Auction, London
- St Mary’s Church, London, Music and art exhibition, London
- Accident and Emergence, The Flea Pitt Gallery, London
- Bow Arts Trust, P1 Exhibition, London
- Fieldwork Artists, Arch 635, The Big Day, London
- Cafe Gallery Southwark Park, Annual Exhibition, London
- 101, Bedroom Conundrum, London
- Portman Gallery, Hung Drawn Quasi Stellar Object, group show, London
- The Nunnery, Disposable Fetish, group Show, London
Competitions, prizes and awards:
2014 East London Painting Prize, first round
2012 Bay Art Gallery, Arts Council funding, Needles Eye
2007 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London
https://jerwoodarts.org/programme/jerwood-contemporary-painters-2007/
Residencies and Talks:
2019 Passaggiatina, Atina, Italy. Residency, performance and exhibition
2013 Culturanze, Salento, Italy, artist talk and presentation of music videos
2012 Fowle Hall Features Artist Residency and Exhibition, Paddock Wood, UK
2012 Franko B, Salon, Bow Arts Trust, artist talk and presentation
2010 St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls, artist talk and workshop
Performances
2012 Goldsmiths Relay, Performance Group Research Group
2012 Goldsmiths Relay stage, Listen Lisse musical performance with live projection by Constance Whiston
2012 Studio 1:1, Pact, Performance Group Research Group
2011 Servant Jazz Quarters, In an Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly
Curated exhibitions
2016 Obsolete Desire, London
2014 Hey Days, Bermondsey Project
2011 Candy Mountains, Arbeit, London
2011 In An Age of Aeroplanes, You May Fly, Servant Jazz Quarters, London
Publications and Interviews:
2022 Social Convention
2021 Unseen! New Words and Visuals
2020 The Sunday Tribune
2012 The Artpoint interview with Phillip F Clarke, New York
2012 Trebuchet Magazine, Transition Gallery's First Thursdays
2007 Jerwood Contemporary Painters Catalogue 2007
2007 AN Magazine – Jerwood Painters show
2007 The Times – Jerwood Painters
Collections:
James Wallace Collection (NZ)
Education:
2018; Bachelor of Arts, Couns - Glasgow Caledonian University
1998 Bachelor of Design – Painting, Unitec, School of Architecture and Design, Auckland, New Zealand
1994 Foundation - Painting, drawing, set design, professional practice, TV and video, School of Architecture and Design, Auckland, New Zealand
Downloads:
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2007 catalogue
| jcp_catalogue.pdf |
