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Lisa Neighbour's body of electric light sculpture originated in the late eighties -a time of social and economic dislocation. Drawing on the influence of Mexican and Portuguese festival decoration and inspired by sources as diverse as Sufism, animism, the art of divination and macramé, Neighbour's work embraces high and low art as a talisman against future shock and an expression of contemporary cultural hybridization.
She is a visual artist who lives and works in Toronto. Her interests range from printmaking andmixed-media works, to installation sculpture, things that glow in the dark, knots, growing potatoes and water dowsing.
Recent exhibitions include "The Home Show" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba, "Grope For Luna" at 64 Steps in Toronto and Persona Cantare, in Toronto. In her recent work, Neighbour uses macrame and knots to fabricate large scale models of jewellery, monsters, electrical circuits and plant forms. Along with electrical wire, she uses plastic beads,plugs, sockets, bulbs and switches to create the pieces, in which an important element is the electricity which runs through the wires and illuminates the work.
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