Roberts, Lisa (1949 - )

Roberts is an exhibiting artist, community artist and interactive publisher. She has created films and animations, produced exhibitions, and been involved in several performances over a long career beginning in the early 1970s.

Roberts completed her Dip. Art, Dip. Ed, Grad. Dip. Film & TV, and M.A. Animation and Interactive Media. Most of her studies were undertaken in Melbourne.

Over the course of her career Roberts has received several grants, prizes and scholarships, including the National Gallery Drawing Prize (1971); three Australian Film Commission grants (1981, 1991, 1994); and the Melbourne Fringe Festival Special Commendation Award for New Short Works (1995).

Roberts has received funding from the Australia Council to produce art work for exhibition. She has also worked as a lecturer, animator, illustrator, judge in film awards, assessor, curator and artist in residence (Manangatang, 1992, Wesley College, 1994, Scotch Oakburn College, 1997, Launceston College, 1998, and on the Aurora Australis, V7, to Davis and Mawson, Antarctica, 2000). During January and Feburary 2002 she completed a residency in Antarctica, as part of the Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Programme, developing material to build an interactive CDROM and other art work.

Roberts' work is held by the University of Melbourne, the State bank of Victoria, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Wesley College (Melbourne), Queensland University of Technology, the Victorian College of the Arts, and Launceston General Hospital. She is currently a member of the Launceston General Hospital Visual Arts Committee.

Books

• Johanna Exiner and Denis Kelynack with Naomi Aitchison and Jenny Czulak ; illustrations by Lisa Roberts, Dance therapy redefined : a body approach to therapeutic dance, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, U.S.A., c1994, 99 pp. [ Details... ]
• S. Jane and M. Darby, Art Is, Jacaranda-Wiley, Australia, 1996. [ Details... ]
• Tony Scanlon ; illustrated by Lisa Roberts, Joey's egg-shell people, Oxford University Press, Melbourne. [ Details... ]

Catalogues

• Lisa Roberts, 1994 Next Wave Art and Technology Catalogue, 1994. [ Details... ]
• Lisa Roberts, Australian Contemporary Art Fair Catalogue, 1994. [ Details... ]
• Lisa Roberts, Beware of Pedestrians, 1995. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Lisa Roberts, ''Portrait of Carmel Bird (1990)'', Island, Jan-Feb, 1994. [ Details... ]

See also

• Germaine, Max, A dictionary of women artists of Australia, Tortola, BVI : Craftsman House BVI, Roseville East, NSW, c.1991, 486 pp. [ Details... ]
• Janet McKenzie, Drawing in Australia : contemporary images and ideas, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1986, 178 pp. [ Details... ]
• Julie Rollinson, Sue Melville, Australian art and artists, Science Press, Marrickville, N.S.W., 1996, 448 pp. [ Details... ]