Lisa Fenton O'Brien
- Work
- Biography
My current work focusses on drawing and painting but I have a multidisciplinary practice which over the years has included sound, music composition, video and installation. There are both figurative and abstract aspects to my recent work and it is heavily influenced by the dramatic weather and wild landscape of the remote North West Highlands where I have lived for the past 20 years. The gestures I use in my work are instinctive responses to what I see and hear and also expressions of an inner emotional landscape and I am currently experimenting with ways of physically incorporating the weather conditions over a period of time into my work. I often make the work outside using found materials.
Education
2007 MFA Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
2005 PG Dip Fine Art, Psalter Lane, Sheffield Hallam University
1993 PGCE Music and Fine Art. Manchester Met University
1989 Ba(Hons) Fine Art and Music, Brighton University
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Upcoming Solo Show Gairloch Museum / NW Highlands
2024 SSA Treasures, Gairloch Museum
2024 VAS Centenary Show RSA, Edinburgh
2024 RSW 143rd Annual Open RSA, Edinburgh
2023 SSA Annual Exhibition, MacLaurin Gallery, Ayrshire
2023 Dockside Gallery Winter Show – group, Berwick Upon Tweed
2019 Inverewe Gardens, National Trust Scotland – Group Show
2014 Remote Performances on Resonance FM with London Fieldworks.
2013 Solo Show, Rhue Art / Ullapool
2011 Solo Show / Left Bank Gallery Aberdeenshire.
2011 Sublime Film Festival IOTA / , Inverness
2011 Heartwood Group Show/ Blairgowrie, Perthshire
2010 Launch Collaborative, Group Show /(OVADA )/ Oxford 2009 Artist’s residency Sound Scotland Festival, Aberdeen.
2008 Nexus Group Show/ residency, An Tobar/ Mull.
2007 Leeds International Film Festival 07. Pavillion / Leeds.
2006-8 New Media Scotland. Upgrade! International Festival / Belgrade / Boston / Vancouver / Toronto / Paris / Melbourne / CCA, Glasgow.
2006-7 Disturbance. Installation. An Tuireann Gallery/ Scotland / France / Denmark /Japan
Awards
2006 & 11 Artists Award. Hi-arts. For research and development of new work.
2007 Visiting Artist Japan for JIPB cube.
2006 Selected for Open Frequency on Axis and Axis Audio.
2006 Scottish Arts Council. Artist of the Month.
2005-7 AHRC Bursary –MFA postgraduate study.
1992 Princes Trust European Vision – national winner of young composers award.
Publications
Essay 'In Search of Silence' and 'On Remoteness' published in Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture edited by Gilchrist, Jolson and Warr. 2015. ISBN978-1-4727-5391-4
2007 MFA Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
2005 PG Dip Fine Art, Psalter Lane, Sheffield Hallam University
1993 PGCE Music and Fine Art. Manchester Met University
1989 Ba(Hons) Fine Art and Music, Brighton University
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Upcoming Solo Show Gairloch Museum / NW Highlands
2024 SSA Treasures, Gairloch Museum
2024 VAS Centenary Show RSA, Edinburgh
2024 RSW 143rd Annual Open RSA, Edinburgh
2023 SSA Annual Exhibition, MacLaurin Gallery, Ayrshire
2023 Dockside Gallery Winter Show – group, Berwick Upon Tweed
2019 Inverewe Gardens, National Trust Scotland – Group Show
2014 Remote Performances on Resonance FM with London Fieldworks.
2013 Solo Show, Rhue Art / Ullapool
2011 Solo Show / Left Bank Gallery Aberdeenshire.
2011 Sublime Film Festival IOTA / , Inverness
2011 Heartwood Group Show/ Blairgowrie, Perthshire
2010 Launch Collaborative, Group Show /(OVADA )/ Oxford 2009 Artist’s residency Sound Scotland Festival, Aberdeen.
2008 Nexus Group Show/ residency, An Tobar/ Mull.
2007 Leeds International Film Festival 07. Pavillion / Leeds.
2006-8 New Media Scotland. Upgrade! International Festival / Belgrade / Boston / Vancouver / Toronto / Paris / Melbourne / CCA, Glasgow.
2006-7 Disturbance. Installation. An Tuireann Gallery/ Scotland / France / Denmark /Japan
Awards
2006 & 11 Artists Award. Hi-arts. For research and development of new work.
2007 Visiting Artist Japan for JIPB cube.
2006 Selected for Open Frequency on Axis and Axis Audio.
2006 Scottish Arts Council. Artist of the Month.
2005-7 AHRC Bursary –MFA postgraduate study.
1992 Princes Trust European Vision – national winner of young composers award.
Publications
Essay 'In Search of Silence' and 'On Remoteness' published in Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture edited by Gilchrist, Jolson and Warr. 2015. ISBN978-1-4727-5391-4
Collections
- 2023
- Lisa Fenton O'Brien
- Peat, Ice and Ink
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