Lisa Sorgini (b. 1980) is an Australian artist currently residing in northern New South Wales (Bundjalung Country). Her practice engages with the relationship between mother and child, family and community, and interrogates existing societal constructs and archetypes that are often vastly at odds with the lived experience. She is deeply interested in the way our familial relationships, particularly the mother role look and change over time. In 2021 she has had works selected as the winner of the Lucie Awards Portrait Project and CCP Ilford Salon for ‘Most Critically Engaged’ image, been selected to have work exhibited in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize(UK), as well as being shortlisted for the National Portrait Prize (Aus), the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (Aus) and nominated to participate in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. In 2020 she was selected as the winner of the Lens Culture Critics Choice award for her portraiture series ‘Behind Glass’ and had work shortlisted for a number of other national and international awards including the 2020 CLIP Award, 2020 Australian Photography Awards, and the Head On Portrait Prize. Previously she has also been a finalist in the Olive Cotton (2019) and Iris Awards (2019) as well as a semi-finalist in the Head On portrait prize (2019) Her work has been exhibited within Australia and internationally as well as being published extensively worldwide, with recent interviews and features in The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, Creative Review, and National Geographic.
