Lissa-Jane de Sailles | Curriculum Vitae
Lissa-Jane de Sailles- Curriculum Vitae
Education
2004-2009Bachelor of Arts-English Literature and History-University of Wollongong
2023- present Bachelor Visual Arts Studio Practice-University Southern Queensland-Currently completing
Awards and Grants
2012-Shoalhaven Women’s Conference Personal Development Grant
2014-15-Craft NSW Emerging Artist Award finalist
2015-Veolia Mulwaree Trust Scholarship
2018-National Basketry Organisation (USA) 2019 Congress Scholarship
2019-Veolia Mulwaree Creative Arts Scholarship
2022-Paper On Skin-Wearable Paper Art, Burnie Arts Council, Tasmania, Runner Up
Residencies
2023-Georges River AIR Feb/March, Georges River Council, Sydney
Solo shows
2014-‘Seeking the Silence’-Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery,
2017-‘Coast to Coast’- Art Bar Kiama
2018-‘Wanderlust’, Milton Work Hub
2019-Inner Landscapes, In Transit, North Sydney
2019-Reinvented-Reimagined, Spiral Gallery, Bega
2020-Meditations on Containment, Gallery 76, Sydney Embroiderers Guild, Concord West
2023-A Homage to the Goddess of the Suburban Backyard, Hurstville Museum and Gallery
2023-Down the Rabbit Hole, Timeless Textiles, Newcastle
2024-Sensing the Sacred, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
Group shows
2021- ‘Sojourn’, with Nicole Berlach, Gosford Regional Art gallery
2021- ‘Synchronicity, with Kylie Douglas, Art Bar Kiama
2021- ‘Interwoven’, (group show), Belconnen Arts Centre
2023-Redefining the Basket, Gallery 76 Concord West, Sydney
2023-Florescence, Sturt Craft Gallery, Mittagong
2023-Craft and Design Canberra, Members exhibition
2024-Sounds Sites Textures-Timeless Textiles Newcastle
2025-The 4th International Micro Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
2025-The 4th International Mini Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
Teaching
2024-BARN Bainbridge Island, Columbia Basin Basketry Retreat Oregon, Los Angeles Basketry Guild, Misti Washington Basketry Guild-San Diego, Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Fibre Arts on 4th-Albuquerque
2024-Fibre Arts Australia Ballarat, Victoria
2024-Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2024-Liz Jeneid’s Mt Kembla Studio, Wollongong
2024-Bainbridge BARN-Bainbridge Island, Washington State, USA
2024-Columbia Basin Basketry Guild CBBG Annual Retreat-Featured Teacher-Rockaway Beach, Oregon, USA
2024-Los Angeles Basketry Guild LABG-Coiled and Twined Basketry. Los Angeles, USA
2024-Misti Washington Basketry Guild, Twining and natural basketry, Sandiego, USA
2024-Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Coiled basketry, Cincinnati, USA
2024-Fibre Arts on Fourth, Coiled Basketry, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
