Irish artist Anne Carlisle studied painting at the Ulster College of Art, Belfast, and Chelsea College of Art, London. Carlisle has served on the management committee of Art and Research Exchange and is a founder member of the Artists Collective of Northern Ireland. She received a Bowen Mullally Award in 1982 and the Guinness Peat Aviation Award in 1983. Carlisle’s work is represented in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.