Lisa Ray | Alter

Alter Lisa Ray

7 - 13 September 2026

Alter To 'alter' is to change. An 'altar' is a place where we honour what we hold sacred. Alter exists between these two meanings, where transformation becomes both a physical and spiritual experience.

Through flowers, portraiture and elemental forms, the works explore moments suspended between dissolution and emergence. Light resembles fire, water becomes atmosphere, and organic forms drift between the familiar and the imagined.

Rather than documenting nature, these works draw upon it as a language through which transformation, surrender and renewal can be felt rather than explained.

Created through a slow and intuitive process, each work occupies a threshold where nothing is fixed. Flowers bloom, fade and transform. The human figure appears not as a portrait of identity, but as another vessel within the same cycle of change. Light becomes both subject and material, revealing transformation as something quiet, continual and sacred.

Alter invites viewers into a contemplative space, one that asks what we choose to hold, what we are willing to release, and how moments of quiet attention can become sites of transformation.

- Lisa Ray

The sacred current #1, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 63 x 43 cm (Framed Painted White Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $1,200

The sacred current #2, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 63 x 43 cm (Framed Painted Black Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $1,200

A delicate strength, 2021 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2,600

Altar, 2016 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 64 x 94 cm (Framed Painted Black Victorian Ash) Ed 1/3 $2,600

Between worlds, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 64 x 94 cm (Framed Painted Black Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2,600

Blue Lotus - Gather, 2022 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 2/20 $1,900

Dream state, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Walnut Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2,600

Elemental, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Walnut Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2600

Emergence, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2,600

On the pisces moon, 2023 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/3 $2,600

Submerged, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 64 x 94 cm (Framed Painted Black Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2600

The dance between, 2021 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 94 x 64 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $2,600

Alchemy, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $3,500

Burning grace, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Walnut Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $3,500

Her Hibiscus - Beauty, 2022 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 2/20 $2,500

King Protea - Resilience, 2022 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/20 $2,500

Pink tulips - Dream, 2022 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/20 $2,500

Purple hyacinth - Integrate, 2022 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 1/20 $2,500

Realms of expansion, 2026 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Walnut Victorian Ash) Ed 1/5 $3,500

Yellow Orchard - Body, 2022 Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 124 x 84 cm (Framed Natural Victorian Ash) Ed 3/20 $2,500

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