Lisa Stonham is a visual artist based on unceded Gadigal Land. In 2025, she completed her MFA at the National Art School, receiving the Standish & Co. Scholarship, the Prix Yves Hernot Award of Merit, and the Harvey Galleries National Art School Exhibition Prize.
Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in photography, exploring the interaction of space, light, and time. Navigating photography into sculpture, video, and installation, Lisa blurs boundaries between mediums, inviting hybridisations and slippages.
Collaborating with sunlight over time, she captures its seasonal and daily movements across interior architectural spaces. These durational processes reveal temporal rhythms shaped by natural cycles and weather patterns. Time here is not fixed or linear but expanding and unfolding; it reverberates with temporal complexities.
Treating the site of display as active and evolving her work invites the viewer to engage not just visually but also through spatial awareness and bodily movement. Reflective surfaces refract the present moment, allowing multiple compositions, perspectives, and viewpoints - interacting with the environment and implicating the viewer as a refracted double.
Each image and reflective surface becomes a temporal negotiation—where presence is unstable, and engagement emerges slowly, through return and re-perception.
Recent solo exhibitions include Inside the Empty Interval (2026) at Photo-Access, in Canberra, Everyday Wonder (2024) at Five Walls Project Space, Melbourne; Looking Forward, Looking Through … Future Perfect (2023) at Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne; Conversations with My-Self and Others (2022) at M16 Artspace, Canberra.
In 2024, Lisa was awarded the Perth Centre for Photography's Contemporary Landscape in Photography Prize. In 2025 she was a finalist in the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize and the Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize. Previously she has been selected for the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, the Hurford Portrait Award, the Iris Award, the Head On Mobile Award, and the KAAF Art Prize.
Her work has been profiled in The Sydney Morning Herald, reviewed in The Canberra Times, and held in private collections across Australia.