ABOUT
Artist & Costume Designer
Currently based between Dublin and the West of Ireland. Lisa’s work explores storytelling through textiles, using the body as a canvas. She creates wearable sculptures inspired by themes like body dysmorphia, consumption, and climate change. She has a main focus for Costume Breakdown and Textile Painting/Dyeing. Lisa has worked for designer Lucinda Graham on projects such as ‘Nothing Compares’. She was Costume Designer for Screen Ireland-funded short films ‘Over The Moon’ and ‘Bump’.
Passionate about electronic music, dance, and performance art, Lisa loves designing for stage and screen.
She also freelances as a sculptural/performance artist and is very open to collaborations.
EDUCATION
-The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity College Dublin - MFA Stage/Costume Design- Part Time - 2023 to 2025
-National College of Art and Design - BA International Applied Materials - 2018 to 2022
-Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design- BA Fashion & Textiles Design- 2021
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
-Awarded Design Mentorship by ISPD. Funded by Arts Council Ireland - 2025
-Awarded The Agily Award from Arts Council Ireland -2024
-Scholarship Holder of European Forum Alpbach -2023
-Shortlisted for Future Makers - Issued by DCCI - 2022
-Awarded for Best Critical Cultures Research Essay in The Edward Murphy Library;
“Ask Before You Buy” - Is there adequate education for Junior Cycle students on the topic of fast fashion? - 2022
WORKS
- ‘Gundog’ By Simon Longman, The Lir Academy Gradfest 2025, Costume Designer, Directed by Kate Russell-2025
- ‘Bump’ By Sadhbh Malin, Short Film, Costume Designer, Directed by Pippa Moloney - 2025
- ’Go West!’, Scene and Heard Festival of New Work, Costume Designer, Directed by Aoife Cronin and Lucy Bracken -2025
-‘Over The Moon’, Short Film, Costume Designer, Directed by Rory Fitzpatrick, funded by Screen Ireland - 2024
-‘The Lost Land’, textile art installation with performance, Clancy Quay Studio - March 2024
-‘Cloak Of Renewal’, Performance Art, Gort - February 2024
https://www.creativeireland.gov.ie/en/event/herself-brigid-cloak-of-renewal/
-‘The Eco Showboat’, Human Lab, Electric Picnic - September 2022
-‘Biosphere’, The NCAD Gallery - June 2022
-‘Solastalgia’, NCAD Degree Show - June 2022
-‘The Boudoir Collection’, Emerge Art - March 2021
-‘Creation In Solitude’, KAVA Courthouse - September 2020
-‘Soon Is Now’, The Guinness Storehouse - July 2020
-‘The Mask Project’, The Curators - July 2020
PUBLICATIONS/FEATURES
-‘Stitched With Lisa Della Chiesa’, Void Magazine - 2023
https://void.ie/stitched-with-lisa-della-chiesa/
-Irish Arts Review, New Generation Gallery - 2022
-‘The White Cube Theory and the power of the artwork inside and outside of the museum’.
Published at mome.hu - March 2021-May 2021
-Glitch Magazine, December Issue - 2021
OTHER EXPERIENCE
-‘Le Misanthrope’ by Martin Crimp 2025 - The Lir Academy- Costume Designer Assistant for Mae Leahy, Directed by Eoghan Carrick.
-Mayfair Witches Season Two TV Series 2024/25 - Greenskeeper Trainee- Taltos Productions- Directed by Logan Kibens.
-Horst Festival 2024 - Scenographer Assistant - Phaedra Meyers.
-‘Spirits Unsurrendered’ 2024 - RIAM Opera & Then This Theatre - Costume Designer Assistant for Clodagh Deegan- Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks.
- ‘Herself’ 2023 Film - Costume Designer - Directed by Jill Beadsworth & Shona MacGillivray.
- ‘Nothing Compares’ 2022 Film - Costume Designer Intern for Lucinda Graham - Directed by Kathryn Ferguson.
- Galway International Arts Festival 2020-23 - Visual Art Intern for the Main Festival Gallery.