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About

Lucy Nelson (b.1983, Shropshire) is a visual artist based in Nottingham, UK. Lucy joins a material-driven practice with concerns around woman/nature stereotypes, disconnection from nature and the experience of maternal loss. Working primarily with sculpture, Lucy moves between synthetic and natural materials to create ambiguous forms. The medical and museum specimen is often referenced through clinical staging whilst interweaving ideas of absence, growth, fragility and interrupted processes. Lucy studied a MFA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Her work has been exhibited across Nottingham, including Nottingham Contemporary and venues in Cambridge and Sheffield.

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EDUCATION

2022 – 2024                            MFA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University

2002 – 2005                            BA (hons) Fine Art, Staffordshire University

EXHIBITIONS

Nov 2024                                Escape Simplicity | Surface Gallery | Nottingham 

Oct 2024                                 Ilkeston Contemporary Arts x Cosimo x Imprimo | Ilkon | Ilkeston 

July-Aug 2024                        Backlit Gallery Members Show | Backlit Gallery | Nottingham

May 2024                                Ta-Da! | Backlit Project Space | Nottingham

Mar 2024                                 Wherever You May Wander | Surface Gallery |  Nottingham

Feb-Mar 2024                         Tiny Plants | Fronteer Gallery | Sheffield

Oct 2023                                 Beginnings and Endings, online and zine | Haus-a-rest

July 2023                                 The Tradition of Nonsense | Backlit – The Main Gallery | Nottingham

June 2023                               Resonance and Wonder Pop-Up | Zion Baptist Church and Stork Crypt | Cambridge

Mar – Apr 2023                       Portalis | Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham

Feb 2023                                 Re.View | Backlit - The Project Gallery | Nottingham

2005                                         Graduate Degree Show | Staffordshire University | Stoke-On-Trent

2003                                         Girls and Boys | Staffordshire University | Stoke-On-Trent

RESIDENCIES + PLACEMENTS

2024                                        EM24 | Surface Gallery 

2022 – 2023                            Catalyst – collaborative exhibition placement | Nottingham Contemporary

Nov 2022                                Human Nature Connect with Intercultural Roots | Ingleton, Yorkshire

                   

WORKSHOPS + PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Nov 2024                                Artist Talk | EM24 | Surface Gallery

2024                                        Shells, stones, bones and seeds | Surface Gallery

2024                                        Artist Talk | Island Festival | Surface Gallery

2023                                        Micro Discovery | Nottingham Contemporary                                          

2023                                        Pecha Kucha | Nottingham Trent University

2023                                        Professional Practice Guest Speaker for FDA Fine Art | Nottingham College

2022                                        Pecha Kucha | Nottingham Trent University

2005  - 2006                            Belmont Arts Centre | Shrewsbury

2005                                        Walton Youth Club | Stafford 

2003                                        Stage Coach Theatre Arts School | Shrewsbury

                                               

WRITING

Apr 2024                                Musings for a work in progress: When the grass is free, it dies |

                                               Motherlore Magazine Issue 2 Roots

ACHIEVEMENTS

2022                                       Vieunite X NTU Biophilia Finalist 

PRESS

2024                                       EM24: Spotlight on Lucy Nelson, Interview for EM24 Residency by Charlotte Pimm-Smith

2024                                       Graduate Festival 24Nottingham School of Art and Design Masters Showcase

2023                                       Portalis Interview for Nottingham Contemporary 

2023                                       We Are Creatives, Nottingham School of Art and Design Masters Showcase

 

ARTIST MEMBER / COLLECTIVES

Lumina Collective

Backlit, Nottingham

Vieunite Artist Community 

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