Lise Temple
My art practice encompasses a diverse range of subjects, but I am best known for my abstract landscapes, a series inspired by the colours, contrasting light and broad shapes of the South Australian agricultural landscape.
These paintings investigate the temporal experience of viewing the landscape. The progress of the seasons and the agricultural processes on the land create a series of transient views. The paintings portray the movement of light over land, the cycle of growth in plants and soil, the flamboyant persistence of roadside weeds. The textures, colours and patterns, undergoing daily changes. The shifting nature is heightened by the experience of driving, moving through the view, watching shapes shift with changing perspective. During the painting process, grasses or branches become gestures, roads are made into formal borders between shapes, skies are fragmented and used as tonal intrusions. Relationships between landscape elements are shifted as happens when the viewer moves through the landscape. When produced in this way, the paintings become landscape journeys exploring the passage of time.
In addition to these lyrical abstract landscapes I have been developing a range of abstracted interiors, made with a collage methodology.
1994 RMIT, Melbourne. Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting) 1st Year.
1998 UNE, Armidale. Bachelor of Science 1st Year.
2001 RMIT, Melbourne. School of Landscape Architecture, Garden Design Certificate
Selected Awards
2023 Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW.
2021 Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW.
2020 Finalist Lethbridge Art Prize, Brisbane, QLD.
2018 Finalist Heysen Prize, Hahndorf, SA.
2017 Finalist Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania.
2017 Finalist Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, SA.
2017 Finalist Tatiara Art Prize, Bordertown, SA.
2017 Finalist Emma Hack Art Prize, Adelaide, SA.
2015 Finalist Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW.
2015 Finalist Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, SA.
2015 Finalist Selected for top 30, Saatchi Art, Painted World Showdown .
2014 Finalist Waterhouse Natural History Prize, SA Museum, Adelaide, SA.
2013 Winner City of BurnsideArt Prize, SA.
2013 Winner Watershed Art Prize, SA.
2013 Finalist Whyalla Art Prize, Whyalla, SA.
2011 Winner Barossa VintageArt Prize, SA.
2011 Finalist Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, Fleurieu Vistas Prize, McLaren Vale, SA.
2008 Finalist Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, Fleurieu Vistas Prize, McLaren Vale, SA.
2007 Winner Best Regional Artist, Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape, Hahndorf, SA
2005 Winner Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape, Hahndorf, SA.
2005 Highly Commended, Waterhouse Natural History Prize, SA Museum, Adelaide, SA.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Recent Work, Art Images Gallery, Norwood, SA.
2019 Moving Lands, South Coast Regional Art Centre, Goolwa, SA.
2017 Light Valleys, Adelaide City Library, SA.
2014 Back Roads, Hahndorf Academy, SA.
2011 The Road to Here, Barossa Regional Gallery, Tanunda, SA.
2009 The Way Home, Bird in Hand Gallery, Woodside, SA.
2008 Rural Developments, Burra Regional Gallery, Burra, SA.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Landscapes, Michael Reid Studio Direct, Surry Hills, Sydney.
2016 Little Boxes, Adelaide Town Hall.
2015 Imago Mundi, international touring exhibition, curated by Benneton Foundation.
2012 Riverton Connections, Riverton Light Gallery, Riverton, SA.
2010 Director’s Choice, Greenhill Galleries @ the Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, SA.
2010 The Heysen Trail, (6 venues) Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA.
2010 Australia Day, Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA.
2009 Form Shift, New Land Gallery, Country Arts SA, Port Adelaide, SA.