Lisa Bird 

Lisa Bird is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brecon, Wales, working across video, performance, socially engaged practice and printmaking. She holds a BA in Fine Art: New Media from Winchester School of Art, a Postgraduate Certificate in Fine Art from Aberystwyth University, and is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art with Hereford College of Arts. Although her artistic career began with moving image and performance, her practice has evolved to encompass collaborative and community-based projects that explore contemporary social issues.

Lisa's work is rooted in challenging inequality and examines themes including gender inequality, power, and the relationship between personal experience and wider social and political structures. Through performance and video, she uses identity as a site of enquiry, exploring tensions between visibility and erasure, agency and vulnerability. Alongside this, her socially engaged practice creates spaces for collective creativity, reflection and dialogue, often working with women and marginalised voices. Central to her work is a commitment to care, shared authorship and the belief that creative practice can be a tool for empowerment and social change.

Lisa has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at The Art Club London, The National Open Art Competition, Pallant House Gallery, The Crypt Gallery, Hay Castle Gallery, and the Cairo Video Festival. In 2009, she was awarded a place on Tropical Lab, an international art camp at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. She received the Young Artists Endowment Fund Award through the National Open Art Competition.

More recently, Lisa has returned to exhibiting through video installation and socially engaged practice. Her current project has been developed in collaboration with survivors from New Pathways across Wales, exploring social attitudes towards gender-based violence through collective mask-making, participation and public engagement. Through her practice, Lisa seeks to create work that encourages reflection, connection and meaningful social dialogue.