We Made It: Set and Costume Designer Lise Marker

A multidisciplinary artist and Matthew Barney collaborator explains her craft

by TheartsdeskSaturday, 14 February 2015

Danish-born Lise Marker is the perfect example of someone for whom a heirarchy between art and craft is an anachronisitic irrelevance. With work spanning fashion, film, theatre, fine art, music and more, she is a designer, conceptualist and maker, who constantly recontextualises the familiar and makes it strange.

Over on the Bruichladdich site, Joe Muggs finds out more.

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