In a past career Lucy worked in waste management promoting waste reduction systems and sustainability. Within her practice she focuses on a premise of defying obsolescence. While embracing lifestyle changing technological innovation, she mourns the things that get left behind; the discarded piles of functional, yet technologically obsolete, products.
Through rigorous transformative processes the innate beauty, fragility and worth of the materials is exposed, defyingy that these materials are obsolete and useless. Valuing them as any other precious resource in making wearable works of art. The materials she works with include celluloid film, pages from Encyclopaedias and typewriter manuals, typewriter ribbon, floppy discs, audio and video tape, television screen and Hessian sacking.
Check out what Lucy's been up to lately at her new studio space, the Leftfield Cabin.
Through rigorous transformative processes the innate beauty, fragility and worth of the materials is exposed, defyingy that these materials are obsolete and useless. Valuing them as any other precious resource in making wearable works of art. The materials she works with include celluloid film, pages from Encyclopaedias and typewriter manuals, typewriter ribbon, floppy discs, audio and video tape, television screen and Hessian sacking.
Check out what Lucy's been up to lately at her new studio space, the Leftfield Cabin.
2007 DVA Graduating Show, Opanuku Studio, Corbans Arts Centre
2008 Post Stitch, Lopdell House
2009 Native Flora, MIT/Newcastle University collaboration
The NZ Jewellery Show, Auckland
"Token Effort" at Mura o te ahi/The heat of the fire, Te Tuhi Art Gallery
2010 Weeds, MIT/Canberra Collaboration
2010 Grad show, MSVA
Pop Culture in Contemporary Craft, Masterworks
2011 Best in Show 2011, Objectspace
Neckware 8, Masterworks
A Yarborough Hand, Jewellery Box Graduate Award Exhibition, Masterworks
The NZ Jewellery Show, Wellington
Objective Art Awards, Mangare Art Centre, Auckland
Materially Concerned, Corbans Arts Centre, Auckland
2012 Ludditesque, The Curiosity Cabinet, Lopdell House, Auckland
