Lisa Pettersson
BA Fine Art, University of Wales
Lisa’s paintings concern very intimately familiar, domestic spaces. By painting domestic objects and patterns, she aims to say something about our need to ‘make a home’, however fleeting, and how we place our marks on our surroundings in a ‘nest making’ -like process.
Pettersson grew... More»
Pettersson grew... More»
Lisa’s paintings concern very intimately familiar, domestic spaces. By painting domestic objects and patterns, she aims to say something about our need to ‘make a home’, however fleeting, and how we place our marks on our surroundings in a ‘nest making’ -like process.
Pettersson grew up in Sweden but has since 1995 spent most of her time living, studying and working in the UK. She is currently living in Edinburgh where she works as an artist and graphic designer. She exhibits regularly around the country and beyond.
The work on this site is gathered from various ongoing and completed projects. “The ‘summer’ theme is something I have worked on for the last year or so. In this series of work I attempt to evoke feelings of holiday nostalgia, and of a ‘common past’ many of us seem to share. With subject matter drawn from yellowing, dated family photographs, seaside postcards and other remnants from the past, it is a portrait of warm, pastel-coloured summers – homely and acutely recognisable, yet unreal, clichéd and sentimental.’
Selected Past Exhibitions
2010 ‘A suitcase full of sand’ Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable (Solo)
2010 ‘Spring Show’ Scotland Art, Edinburgh
2010 ‘Spring Show’ Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2010 ‘Flight’ Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable
2009 ‘Christmas show’, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 ‘Pettersson och Liden’ Vanersborgs Konsthall, Vanersborg, Sweden (with Thomas Liden)
2009 ‘Festival’ Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 ‘Affordable Arts Fair’ with Scotland Art, London
2008 ‘Christmas Shows’ Scotland Art Gallery, Edinburgh and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2008 ‘Hemlängtan’ Galleri Art On, Gothenburgh, Sweden (Solo)
2008 ‘Figuratively Speaking’ Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
2008 ‘Affordable Arts Fair Amsterdam’ with Scotland Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2008 ‘Summer Show’ at Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2008 ‘Six Figures’ at Scotland Art, Edinburgh
2008 ‘Nyskapat’ at Taby Art Society (Taby Konst Vanner), Sweden
2008 ‘Affordable Arts Fair’ with Scotland Art, London
2007 ‘Pettersson and Takagi’ at Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv
2007 ‘Booby Birds’ Charity Exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
2006 ‘Tourist’, Blue Space Gallery, Saigon (Solo)
2006 ‘Lan mall’, with Shan Gallery, Hong Kong
2006 ‘No place like home’, Spice Festival, Hackney, London
2004 ‘Affordable Arts Fair’ with WallCandy Galleries, Battersea Park, London
2003 ‘In Residence’, Queens Hall, Edinburgh
2003 ‘No Place Like Home’, Filmhouse, Edinburgh (Solo)
2001 ‘Christmas Exhibition’, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 ‘Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition’, Nexus Gallery, Edinburgh
Paintings in private collections in the UK, Sweden, Holland, France, USA, Vietnam, Australia and Hong Kong
Pettersson grew up in Sweden but has since 1995 spent most of her time living, studying and working in the UK. She is currently living in Edinburgh where she works as an artist and graphic designer. She exhibits regularly around the country and beyond.
The work on this site is gathered from various ongoing and completed projects. “The ‘summer’ theme is something I have worked on for the last year or so. In this series of work I attempt to evoke feelings of holiday nostalgia, and of a ‘common past’ many of us seem to share. With subject matter drawn from yellowing, dated family photographs, seaside postcards and other remnants from the past, it is a portrait of warm, pastel-coloured summers – homely and acutely recognisable, yet unreal, clichéd and sentimental.’
Selected Past Exhibitions
2010 ‘A suitcase full of sand’ Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable (Solo)
2010 ‘Spring Show’ Scotland Art, Edinburgh
2010 ‘Spring Show’ Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2010 ‘Flight’ Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable
2009 ‘Christmas show’, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 ‘Pettersson och Liden’ Vanersborgs Konsthall, Vanersborg, Sweden (with Thomas Liden)
2009 ‘Festival’ Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 ‘Affordable Arts Fair’ with Scotland Art, London
2008 ‘Christmas Shows’ Scotland Art Gallery, Edinburgh and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2008 ‘Hemlängtan’ Galleri Art On, Gothenburgh, Sweden (Solo)
2008 ‘Figuratively Speaking’ Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
2008 ‘Affordable Arts Fair Amsterdam’ with Scotland Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2008 ‘Summer Show’ at Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2008 ‘Six Figures’ at Scotland Art, Edinburgh
2008 ‘Nyskapat’ at Taby Art Society (Taby Konst Vanner), Sweden
2008 ‘Affordable Arts Fair’ with Scotland Art, London
2007 ‘Pettersson and Takagi’ at Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv
2007 ‘Booby Birds’ Charity Exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
2006 ‘Tourist’, Blue Space Gallery, Saigon (Solo)
2006 ‘Lan mall’, with Shan Gallery, Hong Kong
2006 ‘No place like home’, Spice Festival, Hackney, London
2004 ‘Affordable Arts Fair’ with WallCandy Galleries, Battersea Park, London
2003 ‘In Residence’, Queens Hall, Edinburgh
2003 ‘No Place Like Home’, Filmhouse, Edinburgh (Solo)
2001 ‘Christmas Exhibition’, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 ‘Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition’, Nexus Gallery, Edinburgh
Paintings in private collections in the UK, Sweden, Holland, France, USA, Vietnam, Australia and Hong Kong
Artwork sold by Lisa Pettersson
Laundry
Pigeon Pair (on paper)
Businessmen
'Lamb II'
'Fan'
'Tree on Wallpaper Sky I'
Lambs
Archipelago
Buffalo
Bonsai
Chicken
'Lamb I'
Northern Lights
Bird
Shell
'Tree on Wallpaper Sky IV'
Pho
Bonsai on Bonsai