Lucy is an Artist-Curator based between Coventry and Birmingham.
CURRENTLY
Artist-Curator Trainee, Eastside Projects, Birmingham. August 2023 - ongoing.
Research Associate, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, NI. January 2023 – ongoing.
WORK
Library and Information Assistant, Coventry City Council, Coventry. January – July 2023.
Build Assistant, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. 29 May - 2 June 2023.
Visiting Tutor, Coventry University. March / October / November 2023.
Information Assistant, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. June – September 2021.
Studio Research Assistant to Lucy Tomlins, Pangaea Sculpture Centre. January – May 2021.
RESEARCH
Research Barrier Fund recipient, British Artist Network. September 2024.
Art and Labour Graduate Researcher, Paul Mellon Centre, London. July 2022.
EDUCATION
Art Technician Trainee Programme, Coventry University. November 2022 - February 2023.
MFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford. 2021 - 2022.
BA Fine Art, Coventry University. 2018 - 2021.
OTHER
Art Grunts, Co-organiser, Birmingham August 2024 - ongoing.
Art Grunts is a space in the West Midlands for early-career art workers in galleries and art spaces to connect, share, care, and grunt together.
flatGROUND, Curator July 2023 - ongoing.
flatGROUND is a D.I.Y curatorial project existing within and between structures, doors, and windows.
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
Forthcoming 08 March - 05 July, 2025. [...] the library is all of these, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, and Central Library, Coventry [artist-curator]
05 October - 05 November, 2024. REHEARSING BODIES, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland [artist-curator]
2023. prototype projects, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry [artist]
2022. Short and Suite, Flatpack Festival, Centrala Space, Birmingham. Curated by IYP. [artist]
2021. A4, Oddball Space, Birmingham [artist]
2021. 365 STATES OF A RESERVOIR, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry. [artist-curator]
2020. Medium Condition, Graham Sutherland Building, Coventry [artist-curator]
2019. The Bollards Project, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham [artist]
WRITING / PUBLICATION / CONVERSATIONS (selected)
July 2024. [workshop] Curating the City, with Ikon Youth Programme, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
March 2024. [workshop] speculative drawing / public space / and an orange, with Ikon Youth Programme, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
February 2024. DRRAAWINGGGG(drawing). CCA Derry~Londonderry.
February 2024. [speaker] What We Do. Ruskin School of Art, Oxford.
January 2024. Curation Talk (+ Tutorials). Coventry University.
March 2023. What's Already Going On. Katrina Palmer Exhibition Review, Warwick Art Centre.
February 2023. [speaker] MAKING IT HAPPEN: The Art Technician Symposium, Coventry University.
November 2022. OTHER FORMS TAKE HOLD, Art Review Oxford. Autumn Issue 05.
February 2022. ONLINE Artist Conversation, Oddball Space, Birmingham.
February 2022. [writing] Mountainside Dance, The Press, The Good Press, Glasgow.
September 2021. [workshop writing] Education Explorer guides KS1,2,3, for Mit Jai In, and Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
November 2020. Unknowable Occurrences : Presence published online by Must Use Critical Knowledge (MUCK).
November 2020. Krištof Kintera Exhibition Learning Tour, Ikon Gallery.