About
the practice

Lisa Croudace is a Sydney-based artist, working predominantly in acrylic on canvas.

The early body of work — Bondi Midnight, Misty Reverie, Repose in Abstraction, From Dusk Till Dawn — sits in atmospheric abstraction. Quiet fields of colour and texture, built up in layers until the surface reads as its own place.

A parallel thread runs through the practice in mixed-media assemblage and sculptural panels — often built from materials with a prior life. Offcuts from a fluted bedhead, felt from an abandoned project, clay left over from a piece made by someone close. A strand of the artist's work is rooted in reuse: canvases reworked, fabrics recovered, remainders given a second reading.

The artist explores duality as a recurring theme through the work — calm and chaos, stillness and motion, quiet surface and insistent detail. A morning ride and the spring magpie season. A boulder tethered, and a girl in flight. A grid of twenty cells, and twenty materials that have no business sitting together.

The calm and the chaos aren’t separate readings. They’re the same piece, at different distances.

The studio is in Sydney. Viewings by appointment.