Lisa Della Chiesa

Experience

Lir Academy Training

• MFA Stage Design (Costume Design) - 2025

Other Experience

Lisa Della Chiesa is a Textile Artist and Costume Designer with a First Class Honours degree in Applied Materials, specialising in Textile Art and Artefact, from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She further enriched her expertise with a semester at MOME University in Budapest, focusing on Textile and Fashion Design.

Currently based between Dublin and the West of Ireland, Lisa is a concept-driven artist dedicated to zero-waste cutting techniques and the use of second-hand or locally sourced materials. Her artistic approach revolves around constructing narratives through textiles, utilising the body as a canvas for exploration. She has designed and made wearable sculptures in response to themes such as body dysmorphia, consumption and climate change.

Lisa has been privileged to work with designer Lucinda Graham, contributing to notable projects like Kathryn Ferguson’s Nothing Compares documentary. Her credits also include greenskeeper work for Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season Two TV series and she did her first costume design for a short Irish independent film, Over The Moon, directed by Rory Fitzpatrick and funded by Screen Ireland.

Passionate about electronic music, contemporary dance, and performance art, Lisa will travel to Japan next year on a research trip in Textiles and Theatre, funded by the Arts Council Ireland. She is especially drawn to designing for stage and screen, fascinated by how costumes contribute to a performer’s immersion and transformation. Currently pursuing an MFA in Stage Design at The Lir Academy, with a focus on Costume Design, Lisa is committed to developing her skills further to create costumes that ethically and artistically enrich the narratives they inhabit.

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