Lisa Black is a Sculptor, Jeweller and Artist based in Auckland, New Zealand, born in Australia in 1982.

Her love of animals and their form, combined with a preoccupation with an imminent future where technology and biology are intimately combined, led her to create her ongoing series of modified animals. Her works have been featured in Wired.com, BoingBoing.net, Notcot.org, Treehugger.com, Pilot Magazine, Marie Claire as well as a myriad of other prominent blogs and publications.

Her work is a reflection of our undeniable technological progression; seeing animals with carefully integrated mechanical additions encourages us to reassess how we define "natural".

By creating beauty within this supposed paradox, she challenges the concept of a world separated into the 'sacrosanct' natural and 'vulgar' industrial.

Exhibitions:
2009 & 2010: Century Guild Gallery - San Diego Comic Con, San Diego, USA.
2008: Suter Art Gallery, Creature discomforts, New Zealand
2008: The New Zealand Jewellery Show
2007: Satellite gallery, New Zealand

Her jewelery range can be seen at www.gildedbutterflies.com.

• www.lisablackcreations.com
• Gilded Butterflies
• Notcot.org
• Wired
• Craft magazine
• Make
• Gizmodo
• Format Magazine
• Warren Ellis.com
• Le Trash
• Metro.co.uk
• Instructables
• Neatorama
• Complex.com
• Trendhunter