Collection: Lisa Bate

Lisa Bate is a British born glass and mixed media artist, working from her home studio located by the Taihiki River, Auckland, New Zealand.

Lisa achieved First Class Honours from a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Crafts in 2010 from Falmouth University, UK, where she specialised in kiln formed cast glass. She went on to teach as Senior Glass Technician, completing her Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2014.

Her cast glass and mixed media works have received multiple awards of critical recognition, most recently shortlisted as a finalist in the RT Nelson Sculpture Awards 2025. She was the recipient of First Place at the 17th Estuary Art and Ecology Award 2023. Her glass art received an

Excellence Award at the 2021 Cleveland National Art Awards in Otago, and has been a finalist in the national Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize in 2022, 2021 and 2020. She was invited to exhibit at Zwieseler Glasstage 2020 in Germany.

Lisa was awarded a placement on the first metal and glass casting residency between North Lands Creative Glass and Scottish Sculpture Workshop 2011. Her kinetic glass gained recognition in an Honorary Diploma from the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation (Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf) in 2011 and featured in the publication Neues Glass magazine.

Her work is held in both private and permanent collections in New Zealand and overseas.