Lisette Forsyth

Cape Town | 37 artworks for sale

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Rokken
34 x 47 cm
R16 500
Port Nolloth
34 x 47 cm
R16 500
Open Road
34 x 47 cm
R16 500
African Life
57 x 76 cm
R38 000
Family Ties
110 x 82 cm
R55 000
And The Tide Will Tern
112 x 79 cm
R55 000
Tuck Shop
82 x 105 cm
R55 000
Seveweeksportpas
89 x 68 cm
R50 000
Hope
111 x 92 cm
R55 000
One Side Of A Square ed.3/5
140 x 106 cm
R25 000
Eva
30 x 42 cm
R4 000
Outside Prince Albert
125 x 80 cm
R59 500
Harbour Lights
42 x 30 cm
R9 750
Social & Personal Intimacy
51 x 67 cm
R9 000
Staking A Claim
30 x 42 cm
R4 000
Bär and Ivy
107 x 77 cm
R18 400
Bird Island
107 x 77 cm
R25 000
Trade With Mozambique
52 x 38 cm
R6 000
Famous Amateurs
52 x 72 cm
R9 000
Dream Work
110 x 76 cm
R18 400
Homeland
105 x 75 cm
R18 400
World Games
110 x 76 cm
R18 400
Fun
106 x 77 cm
R18 400
Cuba
120 x 75 cm
R18 400
Clothing
30 x 42 cm
R4 000
Chamais Bay To Port Nolloth
104 x 80 cm
R18 400
A Piece Of Ground
29 x 42 cm
R4 000
Official Handbook
29 x 42 cm
R4 000
Cellphone Banking
29 x 42 cm
R4 000
Dog Tickets
29 x 42 cm
R4 000
A Sentiment Of Sorrow
51 x 62 cm
R8 000
Bachelors & Spinsters
59 x 74 cm
R9 000
Milk Mad
52 x 72 cm
R9 000
Trader
30 x 42 cm
R4 000
Port St. John
30 x 42 cm
R4 000
Entrance
91 x 59 cm
R6 000
Crime And Punishment
52 x 72 cm
R11 000

Polcadot
88 x 64 cm
Lockdown Blues
25 x 32 cm
Stripes
101 x 76 cm
Lopende Wegen
34 x 47 cm
Irrespective Of Age
30 x 42 cm
Heavy Goods
34 x 47 cm
Electric Telegraph
34 x 47 cm
Moon Change
34 x 47 cm
Two Parcels
34 x 47 cm
Brothers In Arms
34 x 47 cm
Griqua Town
34 x 47 cm
Karoo Poppy
34 x 47 cm
Trading
30 x 42 cm
Water Supply
29 x 42 cm
Game
30 x 42 cm
Black Gold
119 x 95 cm
Waiting Room
30 x 42 cm
Mule
34 x 47 cm
Mule Or Ass
34 x 47 cm
Lwandle
70 x 101 cm
Smoke
34 x 47 cm
Coach
108 x 78 cm
Camps Bay
59 x 77 cm
Highest Spot
64 x 84 cm
Cape Agulhas Light
34 x 47 cm
Sitting On A Cloud
38 x 29 cm
Loving Subjects
34 x 47 cm
Lovely Llandudno
61 x 76 cm
Kei Mouth River
33 x 46 cm
H2 Ous
33 x 46 cm
Zone R
69 x 73 cm
Across Africa
105 x 137 cm
Four-Wheeled Vehicle
33 x 46 cm
Be Kind
34 x 37 cm
Rivers
34 x 47 cm
Building The Future
115 x 92 cm
Kei Mouth
34 x 47 cm
Under My Hand
34 x 48 cm
Sunlight
57 x 76 cm
Essential Worker
34 x 46 cm
Native Curios
57 x 75 cm
King
34 x 47 cm
Essence
63 x 78 cm
12 Year Old
35 x 48 cm
Kings Will Dream
35 x 48 cm
Dark Eyes
35 x 48 cm
Wheeling
35 x 48 cm
Fire Wood
35 x 48 cm
Piece Of Africa
119 x 94 cm
Prepare
56 x 76 cm
Deep Low
39 x 30 cm
Interior
39 x 30 cm
Formally Separated
35 x 48 cm
Ist Day
35 x 48 cm
Mother's Love
35 x 48 cm
Snell
35 x 48 cm
Lady Atlas
122 x 205 cm
BAZAAR
35 x 48 cm
Religious Communication
35 x 48 cm
Forgive
35 x 48 cm
Guardian
35 x 48 cm
Trade With Mozambique
57 x 42 cm
Other Vehicle
35 x 48 cm
Payday (Betaal)
35 x 48 cm
Purity
59 x 78 cm
Homeland
110 x 80 cm
Schulphoek/The Deal
145 x 87 cm
One Side Of A Square
145 x 109 cm
Wheat Free
33 x 46 cm
Africa My Love
120 x 96 cm

Lisette Bambine Forsyth (b. 1968) is a Cape Town based artist. The city and its residents, the people as well as the fauna and flora, are the inspiration for the artworks she creates.

Between 1992 and 1994, she completed an internship at Mechanical Graphics at the Bayerische Rundfunk, Germany - she then studied graphic design at the Cape Technicon, majoring in photography and printing in 1999. Lisette has exhibited nationally and internationally and was a Vuleka finalist in 2007. The artist’s national as well as international recognition and success are a testament to her ruthless dedication and boundless imaginative capacity.

Lisette has exhibited across Southern Africa and internationally with galleries in New York, Portugal and Munich. Her work is ever changing and adapting to the social, political and cultural climate of the time, and is perhaps the reason why she is able to not only reach, but touch such a vast audience.

In February 2022, Lisette and StateoftheART took part in the International Public Art Festival (or IPAF) in Cape Town, with the artist painting a temporary mural on the Gallery windows.

Selected Exhibitions:

2023
Time & Tide Wait For No Man - group exhibition at StateoftheART, Cape Town

2021
Solo exhibition INTIMACY, at StateoftheART, Cape Town

2019
Solo exhibition LAND, at StateoftheART Cape Town

2018
Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) in New York

2017
SAADA art show with Holden Manz
Group Exhibition: 'UNITLED|SPRING' at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town

2016
SAADA art show with Holden Manz
Group Exhibition: 'Poudly South African' at Studio Dylan Thomas, Cape Town
Group Exhibition with East Side Studios, Cape Town
BRKLYN Spring Exhibition, Cape Town

2015
Solo Exhibition: ‘Nothing in India’ at Studio Dylan Thomas, Cape Town
Solo Exhibition: ‘Love they Neighbour’ at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town
Art and antique expo at the Look Out, W&A Waterfront

2014
Group Exhibition: ‘Ladies First’, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany
Solo Exhibition: 'A Reflection Of Us' at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town
Solo Exhibition: ‘Who’s looking at who’ at Rust and Vrede Gallery
Group Exhibition: ‘Music and Lyrics’ at Rust and Vrede

Works donated for Ukuthemba Child foundation are auctioned by Graham Norton, resulting in sales to Mr Norton.

2013
Solo exhibition: An honest day’s work, Studio Tonic, Cape Town

2012
Part of the Art week in Observatory and Woodstock , resulting in an ongoing relationship with the Jeanneta Blignaut Art Consultancy, Spier.

2011
Group exhibition: Pin Hole at Haas, Cape Town

What is your favourite film of all time?
Each decade has it’s own film: the 80s The Outsiders; 90s Jesus of Motreal; 00s Little Miss Sunshine; and 2010 District 9.

What music are you currently listening to and why?
Bon Ivor because its easy listening and beautiful. When I am in the studio I listen to Fine Music radio, it is relaxing , undemanding has very little advertising. The long pieces help sustain a train of thought and it is also a way to keep in touch with what is going on culturally.
Most recently Listening to YO YO MAR and LP .

Which living artists do you most admire and why?
Paul Edmunds, his work is clever and original.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?
Brett Whitely because of his loose style and innovative use of materials.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?
Harry Wichat at the Smelik Stokking Galleries in Amsterdam. I loved his loose brush stroke and use of colour – it could also have been the hash chocolate.
Most recent exhibition that made an impact was work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in Munich, her use of colour. Stone cold sober.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?
Question I get asked most is where do I find my surfaces. I scavenge.

What/ who inspired you to be an artist?
My Father, when I asked what I should do after leaving school he suggested I do what makes me happy.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what, if any, the significance this location has.
I have a studio in Woodstock, an industrial part of Cape Town. I feel a sense of productivity in the air. I also find the people that live and work here have a style and grace despite their limited resources,every move languid and rhythmic. The weathered and graffitied buildings are also an ever changing inspiration.

What do you like most about being an artist?
To have an outlet for my creative energy.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?
Seeing a commission piece bring tears of joy.

Lisette Forsyth

Cape Town | 37 artworks for sale

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