Lisa Swerling
Lisa was born in Cape Town, moved to London as a teenager and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University followed by Art at Central St. Martins in London. In 2003, an architect friend gave her a chewed-up miniature figurine, who she carefully placed in a wooden box. In that moment, life was breathed into that tiny careworn man, he had a home. A new world had been created and the Glass Cathedrals concept was born. Pursuing this unusual hobby in a low-key way, her work was discovered at an art market in Spitalfields, East London. Glass Cathedrals began to be sold with MLIA Gallery on the London Art Fair circuit from 2008. In 2010 just as her art was becoming quite well known in the UK, Lisa moved with her family to Marin County, California. “Having done things in my own, seemingly small way, I’ve never really sought a place in the establishment art world. (But) If I know one thing by now, it’s that the difference between small and big is only a matter of perspective.”
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