Danish-born Lise Marker is the perfect example of someone for whom a heirarchy between art and craft is an anachronisitic irrelevance. With work spanning fashion, film, theatre, fine art, music and more, she is a designer, conceptualist and maker, who constantly recontextualises the familiar and makes it strange. Over on the Bruichladdich site, Joe Muggs finds out more.
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