Collection: Samantha Lissette

Samantha Lissette exhibits regularly throughout New Zealand and internationally. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide. Samantha became a member of the New Zealand medal maker group MANZ in 2000 and exhibits regularly with FIDEM International Medal Makers Congress. She has a degree in philosophy.

Lissette has received public and corporate commissions for her work, most notably for Auckland City Council to Guanghou, China; Auckland Botanic Gardens, and Auckland University. She works extensively in all scales of the bronze medium, from the monument to the miniature.

Lissette’s work explores the relationship between ‘designed’ elements in the natural world and man’s adaptation of them – merging organic and contructed ideas, 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.