Lucy is a current postgraduate student at Nottingham Trent University studying an MFA in Fine Art and is based at Backlit Studios. She has exhibited work in Cambridge, Sheffield and various venues in Nottinghamshire including Nottingham Contemporary.
Statement
I am a visual artist who joins a material-driven practice with concerns around woman/nature stereotypes, disconnection from nature and the experience of maternal loss. Working primarily with sculpture, I move between synthetic and natural materials to create ambiguous forms. The medical specimen is often referenced through clinical staging whilst interweaving ideas of absence, growth, fragility and interrupted processes.
EDUCATION
2022 – Current MFA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
2002 – 2005 BA (hons) Fine Art, Staffordshire University
EXHIBITIONS
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, Group Show | Backlit – The Main Gallery | Nottingham
June 2023 Resonance and Wonder Pop-Up | Zion Baptist Church and Stork Crypt | Cambridge
Mar – Apr 2023 Portalis, Group Show | Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham
Feb 2023 Re.View, Group Show | 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
2022 – 2023 Catalyst – collaborative exhibition placement | Nottingham Contemporary
Nov 2022 Human Nature Connect with Intercultural Roots | Ingleton, Yorkshire
WORKSHOPS + PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
2024 Artist Talk | 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
2023 Selected for Issue 42: Beginnings and Endings online zine | Haus-a-rest 2022 Vieunite X NTU Biophilia Finalist
ARTIST MEMBER
Backlit Studios, Nottingham
Vieunite Artist Community