The National Art School acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners on whose lands, water and skies we meet and share.

unfold, unfolded, unfolding (gallery installation)

NFS

installation - photo-media, existing architecture, space, light


Dimensions

362 x 295 cm

Lisa Stonham

Lisa Stonham

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 boundaries between viewer, artwork, and environment. Stonham examines light, space, perception, and time as active materials, reconsidering the photograph as a continuum that unfolds through embodied experience. Reconfiguring photography as a spatial and durational practice, her work searches for the materiality of light, the plasticity of time, and the invisible presences that shape experience. Her artworks are not answers, but fields—where perception becomes elastic, and the viewer is implicated in a fragile perceptual offering. 

Stonham was the recipient of the Standish & Co. Scholarship 2025.