Biography
Lucy is an artist, curator and mentor. She recently completed the Turps Offsite Programme. She achieved an MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School with Distinction in 2023. As well as her recent London solo 'Dancing to a Mirror' at Fitzrovia Gallery in September 2024 she has exhibited with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Liliya Gallery and Terrace Gallery in group shows across London and was selected for a number of awards including the Jackson's Painting Prize 2022. After receiving ACE funding in 2021 to explore her lived experience of Postnatal Psychosis through painting, she has focused on this area since: she uses film stories through painting to enact and heal from psychosis, and has worked with the charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis.
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Lives and works in Rutland, near Peterborough, UK.
Education:
Turps Offsite Programme, 2023-4; MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School, 2022-23 (Distinction); Turps Correspondence Course 2021-22; PGCE, Cambridge, 2012-3; BA Hons Art History/Classics, University of Oxford, 2003-2006 (2:1)
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo:
2024: Dancing to a Mirror, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2023: View of the Screen, Gemini Cinema, London (Dark Yellow Dot)
2022: Disrupted Icons (The Maternal Gaze), with soundscape by Eleanor Turner, The Crypt Gallery, London
2021: The Supposition of Her Existence, Stamford Contemporary Arts
Group:
2025: The Sound of Form (Rise Art), Montcalm Hotel, London; Group Show of artists affected by postpartum psychosis, Company Four Dance Company, Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester; A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck, Sheffield; Quiet. Bright, Terrace Gallery, London
2024: Rise Art x Glennfiddich, 24 Mortimer Street, London, and online; Within, Bloc Project Space, Sheffield; In Search of Lost Time, Liliya Gallery; Hard Candy, Transition Gallery at Space Studios pop up gallery; It Rose and It Fell, Terrace Gallery at Patchworks; A Room of One's Own, Irving Gallery; Finding Places, Ancient Priory, Crawley
2023: Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, Gathering, London and online; Cynthia Corbett Gallery @ The Exhibitionist Hotel; Under Their Skin, One Paved Court, Richmond; Mother Of All, Blue On The Hill Gallery, Highgate, London; Wells Art Contemporary 2023, Wells Cathedral, Somerset; Spaces, Places, an all-female group exhibition where I showed my sculpture/painting installation ‘The Consultation’; Artist/Parent, AIR Gallery, Manchester ; Stretch, Somers Gallery, London (sculpture and paintings)
2022: ; Cartography of Care, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh [group]; Group Exhibition, Liliya Art Gallery, Putney, London; I Felt That, The Tub, Hackney, London
2021: A Room of Her Own, Irving Contemporary, Oxford and online [group]; acting balance[d], Spilt Milk Gallery, online [group]; No Reserve, group show with InFems Art Collective at Leicester Contemporary; Euphoric (online) curated by Josephine May Bailey
2020: Alone, Together online, curated by Shannon Skye Robinson; Spring Awakening online, London Paint Club
2009 – 2019: During this period I was unable to work due to being in and out of hospital with acute Postnatal Psychosis and related illnesses
2008: OBSessions, Modern Art Oxford ; The Young Ones, Said Business School, Oxford
2007: Metamorphosis, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2005: ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Residencies:
2022: Hotel Alphabet Residency (with InFems Collective), Marsciano, Perugia, Italy
2021: Artist-in-residence, Leicester Contemporary
Curation:
2023: Under Their Skin; Stretch (co-curator)
2022: Material Presence, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Teaching:
2024 -: Lecturer, Feminist Art History Lecture Programme
2023: Collage. Paint. Destress. (Workshop) at AIR Gallery, Manchester
2022 - present: Artist Mentor for Spilt Milk Gallery Mentoring Programme, Edinburgh, working with artist-mothers
2015 –: Private tutor in a variety of subjects
Awards:
2022: CuratorSpace Bursary #18; The Eaton Fund; The Whitebread Trust; Charlotte Bonham-Carter Award; Jackson’s Painting Prize 2022 (shortlisted)
2021: Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England Project: ‘The wounded oyster turns grit into pearl: processing trauma through painting’; The Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2021 (shortlisted)
2005: ING Discerning Eye 2005, Purchase Prize (John Orbell); The Big Art Challenge, five TV (semi-finalist)
Publications:
2024: Arty magazine Tennessee Williams special edition, May 2024
2023: ‘Against Confinement’ article and images about Postnatal Psychosis in the I Felt That issue ACHE magazine (publication dedicated to the subject of pain). I Felt That was a collective of womxn artists set up in 2022 by Josephine May Bailey to address the complex issue of gendered pain and the gender pain gap that included meetings, knowledge-sharing, seminars, and an exhibition.