Lisa Sammut is an artist based in Sydney. She explores cosmic-oriented philosophies of being and belonging through material production including kinetic and prop-like woodwork sculpture, video art and immersive model-based installation. With a focus on the nonhuman, her practice is interested in re-examining anthropocentric thought.
She has exhibited nationally, with recent solo and group exhibitions at Artbank, Bus Projects, Darren Knight Gallery, Firstdraft, Moana Project Space, QUT Art Museum, Verge Gallery and Visual Bulk. In 2017, she received a Sainsbury Sculpture Grant to collect research material in southern Italy’s active volcanic region and undertake an intensive woodcarving course at the Geisler-Moroder Schnitz und Bildhauerschule in Tirol, Austria reflecting a developing interest in wood and timber as a conceptual and material dynamic. Lisa is currently completing her MFA by Research at UNSW Art & Design and is a resident artist at Parramatta Artist Studios.
