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.
Selected Exhibitions:
2023
2019
Solo exhibition LAND, at StateoftheART Cape Town2018Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS) in New York
2017SAADA art show with Holden Manz
Group Exhibition:
'UNITLED|SPRING' at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape Town
2016SAADA 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
2015Solo Exhibition: ‘Nothing in India’ at Studio Dylan Thomas, Cape Town
Solo Exhibition:
‘Love they Neighbour’ at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape TownArt and antique expo at the Look Out, W&A Waterfront
2014Group Exhibition: ‘Ladies First’, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany
Solo Exhibition:
'A Reflection Of Us' at StateoftheART Gallery, Cape TownSolo 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.
2013Solo exhibition: An honest day’s work, Studio Tonic, Cape Town
2012Part of the Art week in Observatory and Woodstock , resulting in an ongoing relationship with the Jeanneta Blignaut Art Consultancy, Spier.
2011Group exhibition: Pin Hole at Haas, Cape Town
