Inside the Empty Interval:
Lisa Stonham

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Lisa Stonham, Interior Fractures, 2025 Install View

Inside the Empty Interval investigates the potential of photography to move beyond the “decisive moment” and convey experiences that unfold over time. The work reinterprets the photograph as a sculptural image-object that traverses ideas of permanence and instability.

Considering the exhibition site as active and unfolding, photo-objects are layered and re-situated into an installation that echoes with temporal complexity. Reflective surfaces capture the present moment, multiplying perspectives and implicating the viewer as a refracted double—inviting engagement through spatial awareness and bodily movement. The photograph emerges not as a fixed record of the past, but as a site of temporal negotiation—where time opens and perception slows.

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Exhibition artist

Lisa Stonham

Exploring moments when time and space feel unsettled, recursive and open-ended, Lisa Stonham investigates how photography might suspend, fracture, or reconfigure temporal experience. Rethinking the photograph as continuous and unfolding, her work considers the materiality of light, the plasticity of time, and the invisible presences that shape experience.

In 2025, she completed her MFA at the National Art School, where she was awarded the Standish & Co. Scholarship. In 2024, Lisa won the Perth Centre for Photography’s Contemporary Landscape in Photography Prize. Recent exhibitions include Everyday Wonder (2024) and Looking Forward, Looking Through … Future Perfect  (2023) at Five Walls gallery and project space in Melbourne.

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