Lisa Stonham
Time Fold
Edition 1/3 
16 x 20 inch
 
Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art 
 
$145 AUD 
Includes GST & postage within Australia 
 
Bio
Lisa Stonham is a visual artist and MFA candidate living and working on unceded Gadigal Land.
 
Exploring moments when time and space feel unsettled, recursive and open-ended, Stonham investigates how photography might suspend, fracture, or reconfigure temporal experience. Through installation and sculpture, she challenges the boundaries of photography into physical space, blurring the boundaries between viewer, artwork, and environment. Stonham examines light, space, perception, and time as active materials to reconsider the photograph as a continuum that unfolds through embodied experience.
 
Reconfiguring photography as a spatial and durational practice, her work considers the materiality of light, the plasticity of time, and the invisible presences that shape experience. Artworks are not answers, but fields—where perception becomes elastic, and the viewer is implicated in a fragile perceptual offering. 
 
Recent solo exhibitions include Everyday Wonder (2024) at Five Walls Project Space, Melbourne; Looking Forward, Looking Through … Future Perfect (2023) at Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne; Conversations with My-Self and Others (2022) at M16 Artspace, Canberra and Perfect Moment … Right Now (2021), curated by Head-On festival, at 107 Projects, Sydney.
 
In 2025, she received the Standish & Co. Scholarship from the National Art School for Master of Fine Art study and in 2024, was awarded the Perth Centre for Photography's Contemporary Landscape in Photography Prize. Stonham has recently been a finalist in the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, the Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, the Hurford Portrait Award, the Iris Award, the Head On Mobile Award, and the KAAF Art Prize.
 
Her work has been profiled in The Sydney Morning Herald, reviewed in The Canberra Times, and held in private collections across Australia.
 
Statement
"Time Fold" (2025) choreographs multiple angles of sunlight, captured over an extended period, into a single work. Collaborating with space, light, and time, I tracked the shifting angle of the sun projected through architectural apertures—a window and a door—revealing temporal rhythms shaped by seasonal cycles and weather. This durational process of tracing the movement of the sun across interior space underscores my interest in light as a subject and structuring force that authors angles, reflections, and shadows.
While long exposure photography compresses an interval of time into a single image, this work seeks the inverse; to collapse time into a series of instances, to open a dialogue about the space and rhythm inside duration. Every year at the same time, the sun, collaborating with weather conditions, potentially illuminates the same shape through a window or skylight. My intention with "Time Fold" is to open time outward, allowing perception to dilate and re-engage.