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Lisa Collyer

Quick Response Artist-in-Residence

Quick Response Artist-in-Residence

During her residency at PICA, poet Lisa Collyer will develop The Holes in the Bones, an interdisciplinary project that draws inspiration from other art forms. 

This will be Collyer’s third poetry collection and will draw inspiration from PICA’s exhibitions program, exploring healing, reinvention and transcendence in the spirit of art as play. The collection will centre around artistic process, drawing inspiration from artists in other genres to play with experimental techniques to develop lyric poetry.  

About the artist

Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo. She is the author of the poetry collection, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, 2023 (short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award) and has published with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. Her personal essay, Prolonged Exposure, is published in the anthology, Women of a Certain Courage, with Fremantle Press (2025). Collyer recently won an artist residence at Bundanon Art Museum for 2025 where she will create new work on climate grief. Her second poetry collection, Gold Digger, will be published in 2025 with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. 

 

Supporters

PICA’s Studio Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors.