Collection: Lisa Bate

Lisa Anne Bate is a British born glass and ceramic artist, currently working from her studio on the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand.

Achieving First Class Honours from a BA in Contemporary Crafts in 2010, from Falmouth University, where she specialised in kiln formed cast glass. She later went on to hold a position as Senior Glass Technician, completing her teachers qualification in a Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Higher Education in 2014.

Her cast glass and mixed media sculptures have been shortlisted for the national Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize in 2020 and 2021. Most recently she was invited to exhibit at Glasstage 2020 in Zwiesel, Germany. Her kinetic glass work received an Honorary Diploma from the Jutta Cuny-Franz foundation (Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf) in 2011. 

Lisa was awarded a placement on the first metal and glass casting residency between North Lands Creative Glass and Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Work has been featured in the publication Neues Glass magazine. Most recent award is she won an Excellence Award for the Cleveland National Art Awards in Otago. 

Works are exhibited regularly around New Zealand, she has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Lisa’s work is held in both private and permanent collections in New Zealand and overseas.