Lisa Carter Grist

Lisa Carter Grist's paintings appear abstract but infer fragments of landscape and figuration. She concentrates on looking and recognising evidence of spontaniety rather than determining subject matter, each mark, texture and colour treated as found. ‘I am fascinated by the endless associativity that painted and drawn marks evoke. The paintings are often found in and out of frustration and destruction and in this way some paintings hold a number of other paintings under their skin and others just arrive as if they made themselves'.

Lisa Carter Grist (b.1972, Cardiff) lives and works in North Wales. She graduated from Central Saint Martin’s, London (1994). Her paintings have been selected for the Beep Painting Biennale, 2020 and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019, 2015. She has exhibited at Somerset House, Utopia, 2016, MOSTYN, 2016 and The National Eisteddfod of Wales, 2019, 2013 and 2009. She has recieved two grants from Arts Council Wales.

Recent exhibitions include: Wish You Were Here, Terrace Gallery, London, 2022, Works on Paper and Small Paintings, Oriel Davies, 2022, Hastings Contemporary, A Generous Space, 2021, (group show curated by Matthew Burrows MBE), Terrace Gallery, London, Flirting With The Border Guards, 2021, Safle Celf, Caernarfon, Booklungs, Scenes and Sketches, 2021 and Oriel Ffin Y Parc, North Wales, 2021. (Both solo presentations).