Lisa Carter Grist b. 1972, Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom

Lisa Carter Grist lives and works in North Wales. She intuitively reflects on the movement she experiences in both nature and her imagination through painting and drawing. Working often from impulse and tension she is fascinated by the emotional power and associativity that painted and drawn marks can evoke. Her forms can appear non-representational or suggest the body, moments in nature and specific details within a place. Her marks move between immediate and calligraphic to layered robust applications removed and reworked over long periods of time.

“Carter Grist is engaged in a kind of theatre, with no coincidence that she studied theatre design. Also she draws on text, poetry and an archive of material accumulated by her photojournalist father. Given this, I would like to suggest her approach is a complex triangular relationship between the abstract, the figurative and the photograph”. Anders Pleass

Carter Grist holds a BA Hons in Theatre and Performance Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, 1995. She has received two Arts Council of Wales Awards. Her works have been exhibited in the National Eisteddfod of Wales, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Somerset House, London, Oriel Davies and Oriel Mostyn, Wales and are held in private collections world wide. In 2025 Carter Grist was commissioned by CELF, The National Museums of Wales to create a permanent installation in the grounds of Ruthin Craft Centre. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Unquiet Conversation Lisa Carter Grist and Graham Sutherland, CELF, National Musuems of Wales, Ruthin Centre for the Applied Arts, Wales, United Kingdom (2026), Agor, The Full Moon Gallery, Dresden, Germany (2026), LIDO Stores Open Margate, United Kingdom, (2025), Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod, (2024), It Rose and It Fell, Terrace Gallery, London (2024).

Public Collections ‍ ‍

MAGGIE’s Cancer Care Centre Collection, 2026, United Kingdom.

Commissions

CELF National Museum of Wales Permanent Artwork Banners, 2025

Artichoke 14-18 Now, 2018.

Books and Catalogues ‍

Women Making History produced by arts charity Artichoke and commissioned by 14 -18 Now. Profile Editions, 2020 ISBN 9781788165457