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        LISA WOOLFE  - ARTIST STATEMENT  & CURRICULUM VITAE          
  
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Group Exhibitions

2008 NxNW, Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle
2008 Finalist, Waverley Art Prize
2008 MCAAA, See Street Gallery, Meadowbank
2008 'The Instruction Show' See Street Gallery, Sydney Gallery School
2007 POSIE Group: 'Journeys to...’ Watch House Gallery, Balmain
2007 'One up’ See Street Gallery, Sydney Gallery School
2006 Finalist, Hunters Hill Art Prize
2006 'One up’ See Street Gallery, Sydney Gallery School
2005 ‘Corridor’ Sydney Gallery School
2001 Finalist, Hunters Hill Art Prize
1999 Finalist, Lane Cove Art Prize

Prizes
2008 First Prize 'Works on Paper Award' - Waverley Art Prize

Teaching
Children's Art Workshops Little Easels Art School North Balgowlah
ArtIM Bear Cottage Manly
Art Est Art School Leichhardt
Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre WERRP Programme

Qualifications
2007/8 Diploma of Fine Arts, Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank TAFE (Majors Painting & Printmaking)
2005/6 Certificate IV Fine Arts, Sydney Gallery School Meadowbank TAFE
2003/4 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
2003 Art History and Theory (Western Art), Sydney University
1971 Born Sydney


Lisa Woolfe has a studio at Art Est Art Studio in Leichhardt. Her current work is influenced by
the urban industrial landscape.

Her work is held in private collections in Sydney and the UK.


NEW PAINTINGS AROUND WHITE BAY

White Bay has been integral part of Sydney's working harbour and a hub of activity day and
night. White Bay is also the location of the old power station and White Bay Hotel, both
standing disused since 1983. The two steel stacks of the power station rise high above the
surrounding buildings and are easily seen from a distance, making the old power station and
White Bay Hotel landmarks for those travelling on Victoria Road.
These works represent 12 months of exploration of White Bay, during which the artist built a
strange allegiance with the subject. The paintings and prints for this exhibition explore: the
silhouette of power station against the horizon; the strong shapes and decaying textures of the
cladding of the power station as well as the surrounding urban landscape of the shipping lanes,
wharves and rail yards.
The historic White Bay Hotel was destroyed by fire in September 2008 after the completion of
many of these works. Over the next few years, the wharves will close as shipping relocates
north and south. A number of development proposals have been submitted for redevelopment
of the power station site.
Exhibiting regularly in Sydney, Lisa Woolfe is primarily a painter and printmaker with a studio
in Leichhardt. She received the Works on Paper prize at the 2008 Waverley Art Prize.

FREEWAY SERIES

The Freeway Series is a new body of works in progress.

As a child we made many trips to Bathurst to visit my Grandmother. I remember wishing that
the journeys would never end. I loved the speeding along and spent nearly the whole trip
staring out the window. I still do this on road trips and before I know it hours have passed in a
flash. Sometimes I'm sorting through my own thoughts, but usually I'm trying to take in the
glimpses of a world going by.

In these works I am trying to capture glimpses from road trips.

Whilst working through I've noticed that I'm drawn to endless lines of telegraph poles, lamp
posts and electricity wires disappearing into the distance keeping the destination just out of reach.
The compositions are also quite solitary.