Lisa Earley

Lisa joined Solent University in 2013 following a year spent as an artist in residence with the University through the AA2A scheme. Initially teaching digital skills to fashion design students, she now teaches on a range of design foundation courses where she is also fashion tutor.

Lisa’s archival research frequently informs her practice as an artist and resulting commissions.

These include:

• Threads of Narrative, commissioned by the Dorset History Centre as lead artist, responding to archival material of the Bankes’ family whose home was Kingston Lacy house.
• Hyde 900 where work was made in response to the healing properties of plants used by Benedictine Monks.
• The Nature of Mending and Mending revisited were commissions by Walford Crafts, where Lisa responded to archival material from the Jewish Museum and Weiner Library about the experiences of the Kinder transport refugees.

Lisa's work Vanitas was shortlisted for the John Ruskin prize in 2019.

Lisa is a member of the exhibiting group Studio21textileart, whose next exhibition 'Addressing Space' uses 'What3words' algorithms as a starting point to define three words that inhabit a significant personal location. Lisa's words are fashion, according, and stitching, words that meld her academic and practice interests, resulting in a series of stitched fashion illustrations.