Lisa Munnelly is a Wellington-based artist whose practice is positioned at the boundary of drawing and performance. In presenting the drawing process live to gallery audiences as well as on stage, she transforms the typically private act of drawing into a public event.
Lisa ’s drawing performances are devised to operate as a stage upon which materials are called upon to act, continuing the trajectory of her focus on the enactment, analysis and celebration of materials’ capacity to both perform and transform.
Her work has been exhibited nationally at Pataka, Hirschfeld, Toi Poneke and Te Tuhi galleries, and internationally at; ‘SATELLITE Project’ (Shanghai), ‘Draft’ First Site Gallery (Melbourne) and ‘Draw to Perform’ Fabrica Centre for Contemporary Art (Brighton).
Her academic research on drawing has been presented at symposia including; Drawing||Phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing. (University of Loughborough, UK), Performing Writing Symposium, (Massey University Wellington), Drawing Out (RMIT University Melbourne), International Performance Design Symposium (Danish Institute, Rome).
Munnelly’s writing on drawing is published in a number of notable journals including; Performance Research; On Writing and Performance, IDEA Journal: DARK SPACE: the interior. Studies in Material Thinking, Volume 4, and she is the author of the book chapter Drawing upon the Aesthetics of Immersion published in ‘Performance Design’ Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen.