Commissions | Projects
Artist Lisa Waup created this new work for West Gate Freeway. Titled pathed between, it speaks to the interconnecting roads that carry us through life.
Created from interlocking panels and laser-cut in multiple layers to signify both a sense of landscape alongside family connections, this large-scale work sits within the heart of DLA’s new offices in Melbourne.
Introducing Continuum, a digital collaboration between mixed cultural First Peoples maker and artist Lisa Waup and Western Australian digital artist Sam Price.
This project presents the second collaboration between award-winning Gunditjmara and Torres Strait Islander artist Lisa Waup and Melbourne based fashion designer Ingrid Verner to create a collection of garments and accessories entitled JOURNEYS. This is the second collection for Waup and Verner who first debuted at Melbourne Fashion Week in 2017. At its core this new collection represent JOURNEYS through history, family and friendship and the connection to country, to past, present and future and the connections between us all.
Commissioned for Deloitte’s new offices in Melbourne, this work explored hidden meaning and connections between family and community.
Exhibitions
Gertrude's annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in the organisation's 16 studios and celebrates the site as a conduit for dialogue and making.
Current features newly commissioned and recent work by three First Nations artists, Gail Mabo (Meriam), Lisa Waup (Gunditjmara/Torres Strait Islands), Dominic White (Palawa/Trawlwoolway)
New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design is a major touring exhibition project reflecting on current directions in textile practice through art, design and fashion.
4 makers from Aotearoa NZ (McDonald, McIntosh, Moa and Panther), and 4 makers based in Naarm/Melbourne (McArdle, Johnson, Kiuru and Waup), whose practices involve a deep and holistic engagement with materiality and process, within a context of working in Aotearoa NZ and Australia, within Moana Oceania.
In a world where art often reflects on convergent themes, the 2023 Paul Selzer Exhibition and Prize, on display at the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery – stands as a testament to the power of diversity and individual perspectives. Lisa Waup was awarded the 2023 Paul Seller Prize.
Lisa Waup (Gunditjmara/Torres Strait/Italian) is asking us to rethink how we search for and engage with objects in space and in particular what floats above us.
In the work of artists in Adopted, a range of complex narratives emerge: of marginalisation – of the ongoing challenge in piecing together Lost, Stolen and Hidden intergenerational stories that have been intentionally and forcibly silenced through the processes of colonisation.
earth:Country – from the ground to the sky is an exhibition of female First Nations ceramicists, presented in conjunction with Apmere Mparntwe, 16th Australian Ceramics Triennale curated by Lisa Waup.
seaing Country
Front Beach Back Beach Festival