Exploring moments when time and space feel unsettled, recursive and open-ended, Lisa Stonham investigates how photography might suspend, fracture, or reconfigure temporal experience.

Through installation and sculpture, she challenges the boundaries of photography into physical space, blurring the parameters between viewer, artwork, and environment. Examining light, space, perception, and time as active materials to rethink the photograph as continuous and unfolding.

Reconfiguring photography as a spatial and durational practice, her work considers the materiality of light, the plasticity of time, and the invisible presences that shape experience. Artworks become fields—where perception becomes elastic, and the viewer is implicated in a fragile perceptual offering.

In 2025, Lisa completed her MFA at the National Art School, where she was awarded the Standish & Co. Scholarship, Prix Yves Hernot Award of Merit, and the Harvey Galleries National Art School (group) Exhibition Prize.

Solo exhibitions include Everyday Wonder (2024), Looking Forward, Looking Through … Future Perfect (2023) at Five Walls Gallery and Project Space, Melbourne; and Conversations with My-Self and Others (2022) at M16 Artspace, Canberra. In 2026, she will be exhibiting “Inside the Empty Interval” at Photo-Access in Canberra.

In 2024, she won the Perth Centre for Photography’s Contemporary Landscape in Photography Prize. Additional finalist selections include: the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Hurford Portrait Award, and the PCP Iris Award.