LISA SEWARDS | ABOUT

I would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land on which my much loved studio stands. I pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.

LISA SEWARDS
Printmaker | Artist
Naarm | Melbourne | Australia

Represented by GALLERYSMITH

Lisa Sewards is a Melbourne based multidisciplinary artist who paints, creates sculptural works, and has a key focus on works on paper. She has followed traditional printmaking techniques for over a decade including the use of acids, drypoint, copper and zinc plates. Today Sewards works with non-toxic light sensitive polymer gravure etching plates. Images are hand drawn and etched onto metal backed plates. Her favoured Charbonnel inks of blacks and prussian blue are hand wiped onto the plate that is pulled through an etching press. Sewards has mastered creating luminous backgrounds to her works, many of which include human figure silhouettes and themes of displacement. The parachute is also a pivotal object in Lisa’s practice with its imagery in her works “a universal symbol of hope, survival and strength”.

She has worked under mentors and fellow Printmakers and Australian Artists such as Tim Jones, Marco Luccio, Sarah Tomasetti, and Prudence Flint. Global Artists that inspire her work include Italian Photographer Frank Dituri, and Printmakers Jim Dine and William Kentridge. The words of Australian short story writers and Poets have influenced Sewards artworks and one of her works was recently acquired by the State Library of Victoria. Holding place in shortlists for multiple acquisitive art awards, and recipient of a City of Melbourne Arts Grant, Sewards has exhibited solo and group exhibitions since 2012 many of which were hosted by fortyfivedownstairs and TACIT galleries. In 2022 she signed to begin her representation and partnership with Gallerysmith in Prahran in Victoria, Australia.

ESSAYS
Short Stories Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Loni Jeffs, Arts Writer and Editor 2021 pdf essay file [click here]
Featured Artist in Editions Exhibition, Catalogue Essay Spun Stories by Keith Lawrence, Director 2019 pdf essay file [click here]
White Parachute Exhibition Catalogue Essay by Dr Julie Cotter 2013 juliecotter.com/articles-essays pdf essay file [click here]

CURRICULUM VITAE
Lisa Sewards Curriculum Vitae 2026 [click here]