Exhibitions

Resurfacing | Susan Thomas & Lisa Bate Public Record | Auckland 2024
The Ultimate Showcase Otago Art Society | Dunedin 2024
NZSAG Online Members Exhibition 2024 NZSAG.com | members exhibition 2024
Art Glass 23 New Zealand Glassworks - Te Whare Tūhua O Te Ao | Whanganui 2023
Estuary Art & Ecology Award 2023 Malcolm Smith Gallery | Uxbridge Arts & Culture 2023
Expanding Boundaries Contemporary Glass Society - CGS | UK 2023
Members Show 2022 | NZSAG Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua - Object Space | Whanganui 2022
Small Sculpture Prize 2022 Waiheke Community Art Gallery | Waiheke Island 2022
R T Nelson Awards for Sculpture 2022 TSB Arena Wellington 2022
Art Glass 21 New Zealand Glassworks - Te Whare Tūhua O Te Ao | Whanganui 2021
The Cleveland National Art Awards 2021 Otago Art Society | Dunedin 2021
Small Sculpture Prize 2021 Waiheke Community Art Gallery | Waiheke Island 2021
Focus on Glass Estuary Arts Centre | Auckland 2020
High Jinx | Lisa Bate & Kirsty Black Railway St Gallery | Auckland 2020
Zwieseler Glastage 2020 | Around the World in 80 Days Waldmuseum Zwiesel | Germany 2020
Small Sculpture Prize 2020 Waiheke Community Art Gallery | Waiheke Island 2020
2020 Members Show | NZSAG New Zealand Glassworks | Whanganui 2020
CoLab Conference Exhibition | Ausglass & NZSAG Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua - Object Space | Whanganui 2019
NZ Sculpture OnShore Fort Takapuna | Auckland 2018
Summer Show | NZSAG New Zealand Glassworks, Whanganui 2018
Light & Form | NZSAG The Arts House Trust - Pah Homestead | Auckland & Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville 2016
Unfold | Waitakere Printers Ink & Studio Printmakers Depot Artspace, Auckland 2016
NZ Sculpture OnShore Fort Takapuna, Auckland 2016
Ice Carving | Teble Cone Ski Treble Cone Ski Area, Wanaka 2014
Oh My Glass Red House Glass Cone, Stourbridge 2013
Cornish Glass Malcolm Sutcliffe Glass Gallery, Penryn 2013
Anniversary Collection L’Artishe Gallery & Studio, Swanage 2012
Artists in Residence 2011 Scottish Sculpture Workshop 2012
North Lands Creative Glass Nomenclature NS83 & Nomenclature NS12 2011
Young & Loving S12 Gallery, Og Verksted, Norway 2011
Wild Dreams Zwieseler Kolbl, Germany 2011
Museums at Night | A Book of the Night Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange Gallery, Penzance 2011
Out of Hand Appledore Arts Festival, Devon 2010
British Glass Biennale The Ruskin Glass Centre 2010
New Designers Islington, London 2010
The Royal Cornwall Museum Minerals Collection, Truro 2010
Contemporary Crafts Graduate Show Falmouth University 2010
The Shape of Things to Come Falmouth Poly 2009
You Are Here National Trust, Trelissick Gardens 2009

Awards & Publications

Bate’s work wins at Estuary Art and Ecology Awards Times Online | July 2023
First Prize | Estuary Art & Ecology Award 2023 Malcolm Smith Gallery - Uxbridge Art & Culture, Auckland
Merit Award | New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass Members Show 2022 | Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui
Whanganui Chronicle | NZ Herald Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery hosts national glass art exhibition
Finalist in the R T Nelson Awards for Sculpture 2022 TSB Arena | Wellington
Finalist in the Small Sculpture Prize 2022 Waiheke Community Art Gallery | Waiheke Island
Excellence Award | Cleveland National Art Awards 2021 Otago Art Society | Dunedin Railway Station
Finalist in the Small Sculpture Prize 2021 Waiheke Community Art Gallery | Waiheke Island
The Edit | Newmarket High Jinx | Railway St Gallery | Aug 2020
Canvas | NZ Herald Take me to... High Jinx new works by Lisa Bate & Kirsty Black | Aug 2020
Finalist in the Small Sculpture Prize 2020 Waiheke Community Art Gallery | Waiheke Island
Metal and Glass Casting Residency North Lands Creative Glass & Scottish Sculpture Workshop
Urban Glass | Glass Quarterly German and British glass artists dominate prestigious Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Awards
Honorary Diploma Jutta Cuny-Franz Award 2011 | Museum Kunstpalast Dusseldorf
Nominated in the Hans Godo Frabel Novice Awards Glass Art 2009
Neues Glass Magazine Fall 2011