BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Woolfe is a painter and printmaker based in Sydney, Australia.
Lisa studied drawing, painting and printmaking at Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank (Dip Fine Arts), College of Fine Arts, UNSW (BFA). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Sydney and has been a finalist in numerous art awards including the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Burnie Print Prize and Mosman Art Prize. In 2008 she received the Works on Paper award at the Waverley Art Prize and in 2011 received Highly Commended in the CPM National Print Awards as well as the Earle Backen Award for Printmaking from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Lisa's main interest is the landscape and her current project is a folio of large scale etchings and drawings based on her wanderings through the Manly Dam catchment area.
As well as her art practice, Lisa teaches art to children and adults in Sydney’s Inner West at Art Est Art School and Northern Beaches at Little Easels Art School.
Lisa Woolfe is a painter and printmaker based in Sydney, Australia.
Lisa studied drawing, painting and printmaking at Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank (Dip Fine Arts), College of Fine Arts, UNSW (BFA). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Sydney and has been a finalist in numerous art awards including the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Burnie Print Prize and Mosman Art Prize. In 2008 she received the Works on Paper award at the Waverley Art Prize and in 2011 received Highly Commended in the CPM National Print Awards as well as the Earle Backen Award for Printmaking from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Lisa's main interest is the landscape and her current project is a folio of large scale etchings and drawings based on her wanderings through the Manly Dam catchment area.
As well as her art practice, Lisa teaches art to children and adults in Sydney’s Inner West at Art Est Art School and Northern Beaches at Little Easels Art School.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 COFA Annual (Graduate exhibition)
2011 Intermission, Art Est. Gallery, Leichhardt
2011 Flux (Density), Dirty Hands Print Collective, The Papermill, Angel Place, Sydney
2011 Finalist Warringah Art Prize
2011 Finalist Calleen Art Awards, Cowra Regional Gallery
2011 Finalist CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery
2011 Finalist Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery
2010 'a picture show', Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain
2010 Greenway Art Exhibition, Leichhardt
2010 Sophia Art Exchange, Kudos Gallery, Paddington
2010 Marrickville Women's Salon, ESP Gallery, Marrickville
2010 Finalist Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Association Scholarship
2010 Finalist Warringah Art Prize
2010 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize
2010 Shortlisted Mount Eyre Vineyards Art Prize
2010 Finalist Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2009 Balmain Art & Craft Exhibition, Balmain
2009 Finalist Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award
2009 Finalist Mosman Art Prize
2009 Sydney Royal Easter Show Art Exhibition
2009 Art 55, Manly Selective Campus, Manly
2008 Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day, Hardware Gallery, Enmore
2008 Finalist Waverley Art Prize
2008 'nxnw', Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
2007 'Journeys to' - Watch House Gallery, Balmain
2006 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize
2001 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize
AWARDS
2011 Earle Backen Award for Printmaking, College of Fine Arts
2011 Highly Commended, CPM National Print Awards
2008 Works on Paper Award, Waverley Art Prize
EDUCATION
Current Bachelor Fine Arts COFA
2008 Diploma Fine Arts, Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank TAFE (Major Painting & Printmaking)
2003-04 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
2003 Art History and Theory (Western Art), Sydney University
2011 COFA Annual (Graduate exhibition)
2011 Intermission, Art Est. Gallery, Leichhardt
2011 Flux (Density), Dirty Hands Print Collective, The Papermill, Angel Place, Sydney
2011 Finalist Warringah Art Prize
2011 Finalist Calleen Art Awards, Cowra Regional Gallery
2011 Finalist CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery
2011 Finalist Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery
2010 'a picture show', Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain
2010 Greenway Art Exhibition, Leichhardt
2010 Sophia Art Exchange, Kudos Gallery, Paddington
2010 Marrickville Women's Salon, ESP Gallery, Marrickville
2010 Finalist Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Association Scholarship
2010 Finalist Warringah Art Prize
2010 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize
2010 Shortlisted Mount Eyre Vineyards Art Prize
2010 Finalist Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing
2009 Balmain Art & Craft Exhibition, Balmain
2009 Finalist Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award
2009 Finalist Mosman Art Prize
2009 Sydney Royal Easter Show Art Exhibition
2009 Art 55, Manly Selective Campus, Manly
2008 Even a Stopped Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day, Hardware Gallery, Enmore
2008 Finalist Waverley Art Prize
2008 'nxnw', Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
2007 'Journeys to' - Watch House Gallery, Balmain
2006 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize
2001 Finalist Hunters Hill Art Prize
AWARDS
2011 Earle Backen Award for Printmaking, College of Fine Arts
2011 Highly Commended, CPM National Print Awards
2008 Works on Paper Award, Waverley Art Prize
EDUCATION
Current Bachelor Fine Arts COFA
2008 Diploma Fine Arts, Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank TAFE (Major Painting & Printmaking)
2003-04 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
2003 Art History and Theory (Western Art), Sydney University