Lisa Bate[12]
Lisa Anne Bate is a British born glass and ceramic artist, currently working from her studio on the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand.
Achieving First Class Honours from a BA in Contemporary Crafts in 2010, from Falmouth University, where she specialised in kiln formed cast glass. She later went on to hold a position as Senior Glass Technician, completing her teachers qualification in a Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Higher Education in 2014.
Her cast glass and mixed media sculptures have been shortlisted for the national Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize in 2020 and 2021. Most recently she was invited to exhibit at Glasstage 2020 in Zwiesel, Germany. Her kinetic glass work received an Honorary Diploma from the Jutta Cuny-Franz foundation (Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf) in 2011.
Lisa was awarded a placement on the first metal and glass casting residency between North Lands Creative Glass and Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Work has been featured in the publication Neues Glass magazine. Most recent award is she won an Excellence Award for the Cleveland National Art Awards in Otago.
Works are exhibited regularly around New Zealand, she has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Lisa’s work is held in both private and permanent collections in New Zealand and overseas.
Artist Statement:
My making practice focuses on kiln cast glass and mixed media. Contemporary sculptural works are predominantly made in cast glass using the lost wax technique, making refractory moulds and kiln firing the crystal glass.
Using deconstruction and reconstruction methods to change the objects' original appearance for the lost wax cast glass technique. Glass sculptures play on narrative, ideas explore human interference in biology, developments in science and how industry transforms our world.
Current work explores the connection between two kiln heated materials, glass and ceramic. Combining wheel throwing techniques to produce smaller forms which are then joined to construct a whole final piece, connecting to the glass. The theme of the work is concerned with expressing movement and growth, sculptures that can move or are interchangeable.
