Lisa making shapes at The Kube
Letterkenny-based artist Lisa Bond found the striking Kube building in Letterkenny a good fit for her work. With its mix of curved and straight surfaces, the office and retail building gave her the freedom to explore texture and opposition, two ongoing themes in her art.
“There is the roughness with the smoothness that’s in all our lives,” Lisa said.
Lisa received a commission to provide canvas pieces and murals for the building, which is set on Thorn Road, just off the Ramelton road. Her work was commissioned by Brendan Gildea of Brendan Gildea Construction, who built The Kube.
“I came in and met him and he showed me the building,” Lisa said. “I mainly listened to him and his ideas.” Though she described Brendan as “very ideas-driven,” she said he was also very much “a people person.”
He has been “so good to artists, so encouraging to artists,” she said.
Lisa’s work can be found throughout the building, from textured canvases in the reception area to bold but still whimsical murals in the rooms.
Lisa works in her open Bond with Art Studio at 22 The Croft, Letterkenny. Born in Ballyshannon she now lives in Letterkenny with her husband and two children, and has exhibited her work around the northwest. Lisa (nee Caughlin) also facilitates art groups and delivers workshops to children, students and adults, as well as to Health Service Executive clients.
“It’s great to be doing something you love,” she said. Lisa grew up in a creative household and still finds a source of inspiration in the sea, from her time on Donegal and Sligo beaches as a child and later as a lifeguard.
In approaching The Kube commission, Lisa tailored her work to the different spaces. For example, in ground floor rooms with glass exterior walls, she created murals that would draw the eye back into the room. In a meeting room, she created her murals with the thought of the business people who would be working around a conference table in the space.
“I’m thinking of all those things when I’m working,” she said. In one of the larger rooms she worked on scaffolding to create images 10 feet up on the walls, an approach she said “was new for me.”
Images of Lisa’s work are available at her web site, www.bondwithart.com.
Lisa is working toward a solo exhibition at the Abbey Arts Centre in her Ballyshannon home town, an exhibition inspired in part by the work of local 19th-century poet William Allingham.
“You always go back in art to your childhood,” she said.
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