Born in 1972 in Lusaka, Zambia
Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa
Lisa Younger is a designer and artist who wears many design hats, and has helped to create the visual worlds for numerous live performance pieces, television programmes, and various built environments.
Lisa creates her artworks in the same way that she builds her theatre models - by using sliced and layered paper, all cut and assembled by hand, she creates intricate scenes of feral grasslands and indigenous flora, through which she explores themes around memory, senescence, trekking and temperature.
Lisa spent two years with the improvisation group: Causing a Scene where she learnt how to play again, and three years attending open studio classes at The Fine Arts Workshop; both of which were major catalysts towards her starting to seriously develop her body of papercut artworks in 2021. Since 2021 Lisa has completed three self-funded, six month residencies at August House and participated in several group exhibitions as well as Open Studios Joburg 2021 - 2023 and The Contra Fair Joburg 2024. In 2021, her papercut titled: waiting for the rain was acquired by The Art Bank of South Africa. In 2024, her papercut titled: trying to place it was selected as one of the Top 137 Finalists in the Sasol New Signatures Competition.
