Alisa grew up in the Solomon Islands but she comes from a long and mixed lineage of Polynesian and Melanesian artisans from the Lau Province of the Fiji Islands.
Alisa has participated in many group exhibitions and has worked, to date, on private commissions as a source of income.
Much of her work explores social issues that are most important to her. Alisa is a self-taught painter who draws inspiration from her surrounding and from the people around her.
Living between Fiji and the Solomon Islands, Alisa is a multi-media artist, exploring painting, Fabric Printing/Designing, Interior Designing, dance and creative writing.
Alisa is currently working on private commissions in the Solomon Islands.

Exhibitions

2008 Dreaming Festival, Brisbane, Australia
2007 Tamavua Homestay Art Gallery Opening, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 Kahawa Café, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 Tamavua Homestay Art Gallery, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 ANZ sponsored Fiji Arts Club Art Exhibition, Playhouse, Suva. Fiji Islands
2007 Alliance Francaise 20^th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Alliance Francaise , Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 ROC Mart, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 Save the Children's Fund Market, Suva, Fiji Island
2007 Oceania Arts Center, ‘10^th Anniversary Exhibition,' Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 European Union 40^th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, USP, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 Suva Civic Center, ‘United Nation's Gender and HIV Awareness Expo,' Suva, Fiji Islands
2006 Suva Civic Center, ‘Melanesian Arts Festival,' Suva, Fiji Islands
2005 Alliance Francaise, ‘Open Exhibition,' Suva, Fiji Islands
2005 Oceania Arts Center, ‘Red Wave Exhibition,' Suva, Fiji Islands
2003 King Solomon Hotel, Honiara, Solomon Islands

Commissions

2007 SSED Department of the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 Commissioned by Adi Litia to do a series of paintings for her, Suva, Fiji Islands
2007 UNICEF, Suva, Fiji Islands
2004 King Solomon Hotel, Honiara, Solomon Islands

Others

2007
- Artist in residence at the ‘Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture' of the University of the South Pacific.
- Body Painting
- Teaching Art
- Selling paintings via internet
-Took part in a Dance Production of the ‘Oceania Centre for Art and Culture' titled, "The Portal of Life"

2006
- Hand painted flowers on my friends' wedding gown and her bridesmaid' dress

2004
- Sketched for Annual Plan Publication and Website of the Secretariat of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Honiara, Solomon Islands

2003
- Freelanced for King Solomon Hotel, Honiara, Solomon Islands, by:
- Designing the HIV AIDS Awareness Beauty Pageant's dresses and stage
- Designing the Hotel's Bar and Restaurants' interior

1999
- Wearable Arts Competition, Whangarei Girls High School, Whangarei, New Zealand

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