Being Lady Lucy

I will be showing some new work Musicals and S D E B ( An epic redaction) at Prop.

http://propshow.wordpress.com
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Room 13 Hareclive presents
‘One day in a life of…’

In 2009, Shani Ali and Paul Bradley invited five artists to visit Room 13 Hareclive (an independent artists’ studio for young people run by young people
http://www.room13hareclive.org.uk to work with us to create artworks and generate ideas for our concept book. Their names were: David Blandy, Lady Lucy, Rhys Coren, Hannah James and Aaron Sewards. They did a marvellous job. With their artwork and some of our own, we put together a booklet called Room 13 Hareclive presents, ‘One Day in the Life Of…’.
Copies available from the shop at http://www.room13scotland.com
Designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio
http://pleasedonotbend.co.uk/work/one-day-life/
My Name is Courtney drawings on Flickr

The Court Portraits (2010)
Lady Lucy's Portrait Studio

For Spacex Random Acts of Art
http://www.spacex.co.uk

The Court Portraits

Lady Lucy has an ongoing interest in the every day and a self proclaimed fascination with other people's lives. For Random acts of Art she sent invitations to the residents of nearby housing estates Mermaid Court, Neptune Court and Wheatley Court to sit with her at her mobile portrait studio and be painted. The Court Portraits are a result of the encounters that ensued.

Snippets of conversations that took place during the painting sessions are written around the edge of the canvases, offering us some insight into the story of each sitter.

Lady Lucy's social portraiture lies somewhere between social practice and object making. On this occasion the artist will be redistributing the paintings to the sitters at the close of the exhibition. This radical gesture emphasis that the overriding value of an artwork can lie as much in the process of making as a physical body of work.

Musicals 

New Drawings / collages. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladylucy/sets/72157622559485285/

6 March - 1 May 2010

Random Acts of Art

Since the ‘relational aesthetics’ of the Nineties, a new wave of collaborative art practices has been raising questions about art, community and collective agency. Artists are increasingly seeking to involve audiences in the process of artistic production as well as its reception.

In line with this shift towards process as-art and co-authorship, Spacex is commissioning three UK artists to create new work responding to the independent spirit of Exeter’s West Quarter, where the gallery is located. The artists will be facilitating collaborative encounters and conversations beyond the walls of the gallery.

From 6 March–23 April the gallery will be closed whilst artists Amy Feneck, Lady Lucy and Volkhardt Müller take up residency at Spacex. They will use this time to develop a project with people who live and work in Fore Street and the surrounding area.

Amy Feneck will interview people about the notion of ‘independent spirit’, in order to develop a script for her new work. Lady Lucy will operate from her mobile portrait studio, documenting encounters with local residents. Her painted portraits will be viewable from the street as they accumulate in the front gallery space. Volkhardt Müller will work with people in the West Quarter to create a series of performed actions to be recorded on video.

From 24 April–1 May the gallery spaces will be open to the public for an exhibition of all the work produced and a series of events lead by the artists-in-residence and local artist collectives. The week will end with a celebratory May Day tea party.

http://www.spacex.co.uk

Cine Revue no 5 - Let us l isten to the soundtrack together

Photos

Cine Revue no 5 - Let us listen to the soundtrack together.

28th September 2009 Islington Mill, Salford

Performance
Around 10 minutes in duration.
my copy of Cine Revue no 5, record player, amp, speakers, table, piano stall and light.

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Sunday 27th September
Islington Mill Salford 8pm

an evening of food film and performance with works by Aline Bouvy and John Gillis,
Liz Bowley, Lady Lucy, and Andrew Mania

plus Jenny Lawson will be baking 50 cakes for September!!

the evening will include a three course dinner served for £10 per head
hosted by Lucy Drane, Lucy Keany and Laura Mansfield
http://www.islingtonmill.com/events.php

I have made a new portfolio over on Flickr where you can see images of my work.

http://bit.ly/ladylucy

I will be giving an artist talk on Sat 19th September 2PM in response to this exhibition. It is free and all are welcome.

The End of The Line

Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RL

All are wellcome

Chutney Preserves
I put together Sisters of Lady a Pamphlet for Chutney Preserves.
It was supported by Camberwell Arts week and Space Station Sixty Five.

It features the artwork , writing and thoughts of

Jennie Hogan, Laura Mansfield, Hayley Lock, Flora Whiteley, Sister Margarett Birkett and Hilda Smith, Rachael House, Sinead Wheeler, Jessica Marlowe and Sarah Sparkes and myself.

Sisters of Lady is a creative order of a collaborative kind. Artist Lady Lucy is forming a loose collective of women interested inbecoming part of this sisterhood. The sisterhoods mission is an investigation into feminist theology with a focus on radical religious figures and communities past and present and the relationship to radical feminist activism. Sisters of Lady will form a community and catalyst for a series of research, events and artwork.

I was Commissioned by Room 13 Hareclive to produce an artwork for a book they are publishing called A Day In The Life. My project was to find out what the most popular name in the school which was Courtney and then I invited the Courtneys to have their portraits drawn.
I used Lyra colour pencils that were materials from Room 13.
The book will be published in the next few months and will include artwork by David Blandy, Rhys Coren, Hannah James and Aaron Sewards and myself.

Here is a preview of two of The Courtney drawings for the book.

Commission to design a temporary Tattoo for Wellcome Trust Midsummer picnic through General Public Agency.

See a video made about the Picnic here

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/press/2009/WTX054166.htm

http://www.generalpublicagency.com/

Wellcome Midsummer Picnic
21 June 2009
Produced by General Public Agency for the Wellcome Collection
In partnership with West Euston Time Bank

Stalls and activities by Juneau Projects
Tattoos and portraits by Lady Lucy
Commissioned by General Public Agency and Wellcome Collection

Images courtesy General Public Agency

Club Shepway have produced a publication of their Vernacular Spectacular programme

Drawing Exchange is delighted to be in the artist pages.

http://gogowhippet.blogspot.com/2009/05/vernacular-spectacular.html

The Drawing Exchanges Festival
24 April - 04 May 2008
Spike Island, Gallery 2 & other venues

Kayle Brandon and Lady Lucy present: The Drawing Exchanges Festival with Alice Forward, Anna Lucas, Andrew Mania, Aaron Sewards, Aviv Kruglansk & Vahida Ramujkic, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Emma Bush & Pete Harrison, Goodiepal, Heath Bunting, Laura Oldfield Ford, Lady Stubbs, Marcia Farquhar, Patricia Jordan and Rebecca Swindell Daniel Rush.

Artists Kayle Brandon (Bristol) and Lady Lucy (London) have been collaborating for three years on 'The Drawing Exchange', a social platform for drawing-led events. The Drawing Exchange sets up situations where the amateur and the expert, the drawn and the drawer, a night out down the pub and a traditional drawing class, merge and loose their distinction. Exchanges take place in public locations with each event having its own subject and series of experimental drawing exercises. The events encourage both individual and collective activity with drawings swapped and exchanged at the end of each session.

This on-going project has expanded in 2009 to become The Drawing Exchanges Festival which will manifest from 24 April – 04 May as a series of events across arts institutions – Spike Island, Animate Projects with Picture This, Arnolfini, Museum, Station, the Cube cinema and public spaces - Leigh Woods, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Renatos, Stokes Croft and more.

Anyone may participate: none of the events require any specific drawing ability nor are they conventional drawing lessons. Instead The Drawing Exchanges Festival manifests as celebratory, wayward, imaginative, challenging and experimental drawing experiences.

To date Kayle Brandon and Lady Lucy have invited eighteen artists from an eclectic range of arts practices to respond to The Drawing Exchange format. Examples of Exchanges confirmed to date include: Network artist and Irationalist Heath Bunting presents his project Day Planner; Goodiepal, the infamous electronic musician, hacker and philosopher from the Faroe Islands will invite you to collaborate on a 'school book' composition project to make music  channeling non human life forms.; Patricia Jordan will work with a still life from her own personal taxidermy collection; Andrew Mania invites you to a Drawing Feast; Laura Oldfield Ford will take you on an Urban Drift; Vahida Ramujkic and Aviv Kruglanski will embroiderer on the streets of Stokes Croft.

The Drawing Exchanges Festival will end with The Grand Finale Drawing Exchange where all drawings produced will be viewed and then swapped, bought or bartered. This free event with live music will take place at Spike Island, Gallery 2 on Monday 04 May as part of the annual Spike Island Open Studios (Fri May 01- Mon 04). Spike Island is the main hub and sponsor for The Drawing Exchanges Festival.

For information on previous past Drawing Exchange Events and future plans please see:

http://www.irational.org/drawing_exchange and
http://www.myspace.com/drawingexchange
Full Programme to be posted on-line by end of March.

To find out more about The Drawing Exchanges Festival, please e-mail: drawing_exchange@irational.org

Spike Island http://www.spikeisland.org.uk

http://ladyinthelibrary.blogspot.com
http://propellerisland.blogspot.com

Ladies, All the Ladies

Ladies, All the Ladies

a film; event; exhibition and DVD

by Lady Lucy at Picture This, Bristol.
26 � 29 November 2008

As a visual artist Lucy Woollett has chosen �Lady Lucy� as an alter ego to work under. In urban music circles this use of the word �Lady� is a re-occurring theme and Ladies, All the Ladies is results of Lady Lucy�s self-imposed search to meet other �ladies�.

Lady Lucy�s film and events produce an inspiring portrait of women MCs, DJs, producers and performers involved in Urban music; Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, Garage, Reggae, Dance Hall, R and B, House and Grime from Bristol, UK and internationally, all of whom use the prefix �Lady�.
Featuring Diss Miss (Dutty Girl, Girl Wonder), Laydee Bird, Lady Free, Lady K & Lady Maximum, Lady Paradox, Lady Raz.

Events

Saturday 29 November 2008

2pm

Ladies, All the Ladies

panel discussion

Lady Lucy in conversation with some of the ladies who participated in the film chaired by Bridget Crone, Director Media Art Bath.

Admission Free

8-12pm

Ladies, All the Ladies

club night

A night of music from some of the ladies featured in the film: Lady Free - drum �n bass from Hackney, Lady K and Lady Maximum - the UK�s only mother and daughter DJ/MC duo, Laydee Bird and Dutty Girl DJ�s.

Admission �5/�3 conc on the door
For more information about the events see picture-this.org.uk

Ladies, All The Ladies is available as a limited edition DVD published by Picture This.
Ladies, All the Ladies was supported by Picture This� Small Wonders development scheme, funded by The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation; and received funding from Arts Council England Grants for Arts. Live events in partnership with Invader Records.

DVD

Ladies, All The Ladies is available as DVD published by Picture This in a limited edition of 250 copies. Priced at �10 Ladies, All The Ladies is available at Picture This and online through Cornerhouse www.cornerhouse.org/books
Essay

A commissioned essay accompanies the project written by Lucy O�Brien. Lucy O�Brien is the author of She-Bop

has been writing on music, feminism and popular culture, for publications including NME, the Guardian, Q and Mojo.

http://www.picture-this.org.uk/eventsexhibitions/atelier-exhibitions/2008/ladies-all-the-ladies

I am delighted to invite you to our Fine Art MA show at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

If you would like a card invite please send me your address.

Hope you will be able to make it

All the best

Lady Lucy

The staff and students of MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design are very pleased to invite you to :

Chelsea MA Fine Art 2008

Adriana Rivera . Amruta Shah . Amy Stephens . Anahita Rezvanirad . Arina Gordienko . Catherina Turk . Charlie Franklin . David Wojtowycz . Dimitrios Ameladiotis. Flora Whiteley . Harry Chrystall . Hun Kim . Hyung-Min Yoon . Ildikó Buckley . James Noble . Jamie Christian Dyson . Jarrod Sanderson . Jeanne Gargam . Joana Bastos . Jonathan Hood . Kate Brigden . Keiko Takahashi and Adam Smith . Lady Lucy . Lynn Kelly . Manuela Gernedel . Maria Lynch . Martin Lofty . Michael Benjamin Brown . Nana Sachini . Nicole Shimonek . Ope Lori . Pariya Kanasen . peiyuan jiang . Pippa Gatty . Shiho Sakaki . Shikiko Aoyama . Shintaro Yamakawa . Suki Chan . Susie Green . Tyler Bright Hilton . Yuhsuan Yao . Mike Brown . Sylvia Matas .

Private View
Please note : You must have a card invitation or print out this one.

Wednesday 17 September, 6pm - 9pm

Show Open Thursday 18 September 2008, 10am - 8pm
Friday 19 September 2008 10am - 5pm
Saturday 20 September 2008, 10am - 4pm
Sunday 21 September 2008, 10am - 4pm

Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU

For More information on the artists :
http://www.chelseama2008.co.uk

http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Large Scale Text Piece
Watercolour on 79 sheets of paper.

I was asked by Lucy Harrison to to paint some people who were using Stratford Underground Station.
These Portraits were published in The Statford Grapevine

You can download a copy of The Stratford Grapevine from here.