Lisa Reid

Lisa Reid (born in 1975 in Melbourne) is an Australian artist, known primarily for her highly detailed figurative works in a variety of mediums.

"[4] More positive experiences are present in Reid's autobiographical opus – chiefly her talent for swimming (she has been a competitor and finalist in the Special Olympics since the age of fifteen) and art.

During the formative early years of residency at the studio, her paintings and drawings presented muted, monochromatic, anonymous figures, sourced from magazines and newspapers.

[5] Reid's work has remained primarily figurative throughout her career, and has become recognisable by the "highly detailed" and "intricate" style of art-making she has adopted across a range of mediums including painting, printmaking, ceramics and digital media, with subject matter sourced from personal photographs, life drawing and images from popular culture.

[4] The flattening of pictorial space in Reid's painting has also led Rainforth to compare her work and to that of early Modernists such as Paul Cézanne and Georges Braque.