Lisa Younger

Lisa says of her work “My artworks are sliced and assembled by hand using an assortment of papers, watercolour pencils and wood glue. Paper is a versatile and accessible material which offers me a wide range of possibility when I make. My process combines theatrical model making techniques with improvisation. By adding and removing pieces of paper around and around, upside down, inside out and back to front, I actively ‘don’t know’ where I am going to allow interesting ideas and relationships to emerge. A dog is an autobiographical character that sometimes appears in my artworks as the narrator of my own thoughts and feelings, alongside emotional and messy landscapes of sorrow filled mangroves, aloe witches and viscous feral grasses. As I meticulously arrange and re-arrange pieces of paper into their perfect positions, I stubbornly stop to linger on the well-trodden path back towards my divinity. I feel the boundaries of my shape. Chaos contained within the crisply cut outline of my body. The others have left me behind. I am alone with the warm sun curling my thoughts and memories like the lowveld winter grasses, me within the world and the world within me.”