About

Lisa Colpaert is a collagist and an interdisciplinary researcher working between costume, fashion, and film history. 

Lisa’s work in fashion, visual art and practice-based research is defined by cut-and-paste. She is fascinated by the craft of patternmaking and makes handmade collages, which characterize her digitally printed textiles. She had a small fashion label (2011-2015) and I’ll keep it with mine was her line of silk scarves. 

She is currently completing a PhD at the University of the Arts London/London College of fashion, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is the co-author of The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir, Gothic Melodramas, and Ghost Stories of the 1940s and 1950s (Gent: AraMer, 2013, with Steven Jacobs) and Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, with Steven Jacobs, Susan Felleman and Vito Adriaensens) and has published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Fashion Theory.