I am currently working on a project focused on the women leaders shaping 21st-century glass, which aims to identify at least 25 important women leaders shaping the contemporary glass landscape, and to examine how their roles, contributions, and activities are influencing glass. I have been chipping away at this project since 2024 and its official launch took place in Fall 2025, when the Glass Art Society selected my panel proposal for the June 2026 Conference at Corning Museum of Glass. There, I will moderate a discussion on the subject with three contemporary women leaders in glass: Tami Landis, Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, Brandi Clark, Executive Director of GAS, and Dr. Jessamy Kelly, Head of Design and Senior Lecturer in Glass and Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). In the meantime, I am sifting through literature and collecting data through a survey linked through my website.
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Current work includes exploring processes for interpreting landscape in glass.
Recently collaborated on a series of sculptures in collaboration with Joy Parker, using found metal and mosaic and kiln formed glass.
I like to experiment mixing techniques especially fused glass, painting and stained glass
Making copper wire structures to suspend and slump her glass through. Louise manipulates her kiln programs to create her sculptures and vessels
The process of making is intrinsic to my practice and I am fascinated by the interface created when glass is used in conjunction with other processes and techniques, for example photography, printmaking and textiles. The endless sculptural possibilities that glass offers, and the diverse range of contradictions inherent within the material fascinate me.
In 2018-19 Lisa was artist in residence at Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey where she followed ESA’s Euclid Mission and developed work responding to theories related to dark matter in the universe. In February 2022 her glass and thread microgravity sculpture Verdant was sent to the International Space Station as part of the Moon Gallery ISS test Mission. She participated in the Crafts Council’s Collect Open in 2022 and teaches Sculptural Slumping Masterclasses from her studio in Surrey.
My current fused glass work references Birling Gap and The Seven Sisters Country Park near Eastbourne. The coastline is constantly eroding and several of the cliff top cottages have over many years fallen onto the beach below. Evidence of this habitation can be found in fragments of these structures to be found above and below the timeline. The powerful currents, sandbanks and rocks have resulted in several shipwrecks and interesting artefacts can sometimes be found on the shore in addition to fossils from the cliff erosion. My current fused glass work reflects the sea and land around the Seven Sisters and that associated fragmentation.