Samantha Lissette’s work is primarily focused on abstraction. It explores the relationship between ‘designed’ elements in the natural world and human adaptation of them – merging organic and constructed ideas, and exposing an innate link between the two. There is a strong narrative quality to her sculpture, questioning aspects of the human condition; often employing humour or irony, bringing a sense of playfulness and delicacy to a medium traditionally associated with weight and substance.

The diversity and design within nature provides Samantha with an infinite source of ideas. There are endless correlations of nature’s design principals within human-made objects. These abstractions offer inspiration for new object making. Combining natural forms with human-made forms offers a new way to see objects and a new way to tell a story or imbue an object with meaning.

Samantha exhibits regularly throughout New Zealand and internationally. Her work is in public and private collections across New Zealand and China. Samantha is a member of the New Zealand medal makers group MANZ and exhibits regularly with FIDEM International Medal Makers Congress. She has a degree in philosophy from The University of Auckland.

Samantha most recent public commission is the Little Blue Penguin Project at Campbell’s Bay Beach on Auckland’s North Shore. She works extensively in all scales of the bronze medium, from the monument to the miniature.

For more info about Samantha:
https://www.instagram.com/samanthalissettesculptor/
http://samanthalissette.co.nz/