Lucy is an Artist-Curator based between Coventry and Birmingham.
Her current research explores the idea of rehearsal in curatorial practices - looking at José
Esteban Muñoz's acknowledgment that the “stage is a space of potentiality”. A space where
we can rehearse our future-selves, where we can mess up, re-try and practise different ways
of being. Opening up ‘rehearsal’ as an alternate curatorial methodology which surrounds
drawing, architectural practice, and imagination.
Lucy is also slowly-thinking about Claude Cahuns photography archive of stones. Thinking
about these stones as thought-objects, a holding space, positions, prototypes, and planets
which could be used for build(ing) and hold(ing) onto another, other, existence.
CURRENTLY
August 2023 - ongoing March 2025. Artist-Curator Trainee, Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
January 2023 – ongoing January 2025. Research Associate, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland
EXPERIENCE
January – July 2023. Library and Information Assistant, Coventry City Council, Coventry
May - June 2023. Build Assistant, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford
March 2023. Visiting Tutor (reading groups + cross group crits), Coventry University
November 2022 - February 2023. Art Technician trainee programme, supported by Coventry University x ArtTechSpace x West Midlands Combined Authority.
October – November 2022. Visiting Tutor (cross-group crits), Coventry University
July 2022. Art and Labour Graduate Research Programme, Paul Mellon Centre, London
June – September 2021. Information Assistant, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
January – May 2021. Studio Research Assistant to Lucy Tomlins (Pangaea Sculpture Centre)
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2023. prototype projects, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry [artist-curator]
2022. it’s a conversation, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford [artist-curator]
2022. Short and Suite, Flatpack Festival, Centrala Space, Birmingham. Curated by IYP. [artist]
2021. A4, Oddball Space, Birmingham [artist]
2021. Degree show, Coventry School of Art and Design [artist-curator]
2021. Ikon for Artists, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham [artist]
2021. 365 STATES OF A RESERVOIR, Arcadia Gallery, Coventry. [artist-curator]
2020. The One-Pagers, Houseguest Gallery, Louisville. [artist]
2020. Medium Condition, Graham Sutherland Building, Coventry [artist-curator]
2019. The Bollards Project, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham [artist]
2019. Level one show, Graham Sutherland Building, Coventry [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. 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. 'Mountainside Dance', The Press, The Good Press, Glasgow.
July 2021. 'Opening Speech' Ikon Youth Programme Publication.
November 2020. ‘Unknowable Occurrences : Presence’ published online by Must Use Critical Knowledge (MUCK).
November 2020. Hidden Talent Magazine. The Arches Project, Birmingham (Page 5)
July 2020. 'Shadows' published online by Positive Youth Foundation, Unplugged Series.
June 2020. 'Terraform' published online by Houseguest Gallery, Louisville, The One-Pagers: a pandemic anthology. Page, 21.
OTHER
July 2023 - ongoing. flatGROUND. A diy curatorial project existing within and between structures, doors, windows, gas pipes, and drains.
February 2022. ONLINE Artist Conversation, Oddball Space, Birmingham
September 2021. Education Explorer guides KS1,2,3, for Mit Jai In, and Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon exhibition period, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
July 2019 - September 2021. Member of Ikon Youth Programme (IYP), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
July 2021. PING PONG publication and online workshops. Ikon Youth Programme x Black Hole Club collaboration, launch event 22 July 2021.
November 2020. Voice Over (on YouTube) for Krištof Kintera Exhibition Learning Tour, Ikon Gallery.
February 2020. Emerge Symposium, Coventry University. [convened]
EDUCATION
2021 - 2022. MFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University (Brasenose College)
2018 - 2021. BA Fine Art, Coventry University