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

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.

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

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.

Summer’s here and Space Station Sixty-Five has wander lust.
We're packing up our booths and sideshows and heading east. Following us in their caravans are assorted freaks, bozos, glomming geeks, punks and bearded ladies. We're pleased to introduce you to- Dominic Allan, Zoë Brown, Marisa Carnesky, Jo David, Charlie Fox, Rachael House, Sarah Jones, Lady Lucy, Mark McGowan, Alex Michon, Cathie Pilkington and WebsterGotts.

"Nothing turns heads quite like a funfair. Whether you spy the procession of lorries and caravans arriving in town or simply stumble across the riggers setting up on the common you are compelled to stop and stare. Once the fair is operating the desire to look is even stronger. The strange extreme architecture and that special glow from the lights draws you closer, to where the sounds and smells hit you. Rock ‘n’ roll and fried onions, screaming girls and diesel fumes.

The basics have really not changed in generations, but they don’t need to. The fairground plays with every sense, as the rides turn your stomach and the unusual landscape overwhelms you with a mix of excitement, fear and notions of romance. Nowhere else can we expect the chance of a quick snog, a mouthful of candy floss and the real danger of fisticuffs for some perceived minor infraction. The thrill of the ride is just a bonus.

Bringing all the fun of the fair (as well as some of the darkness) to this gallery within an east London school, Space Station Sixty-Five have picked the finest freaks, carnies and ride operators in the UK art world to spin the Waltzers and run the sideshows. Ghost Train doyenne Marisa Carnesky is on hand with the plans for her dark ride and Tim Hunkin transports the mundane to new heights for his Ride of Life, which posits the domestic setting as theme park. Alex Michon hails Billy Fury’s fleeting appearance in funfair movie That’ll Be The Day for her film loop piece Stormy’s Temporal Tempest.

Zoë Brown’s study of acrobats brings the circus sideshow into the equation, as does Charlie Fox’s bear performances, while Mark McGowan’s attempt to break a world record brings to mind that carny standard, the freak show. Both Jo David and WebsterGotts show video work that reflects the sense of fun to be had in the ridiculous and overblown atmosphere of the fairground. Meanwhile, Dominic Allan brings playful interaction to the school environment by making a model of a googly-eyed child in the Morpeth School uniform.

No trip to the fair is complete without shooting, throwing or kicking your way to some kind of sideshow prize, with the sculpture of Cathie Pilkington and Sarah Jones reflecting the bizarre items you may take home. Lady Lucy takes the role of the sideshow sketch artist and Rachael House invites visitors to sketch a clown, with both sets of work making up part of the exhibition." Iain Aitch

Iain Aitch writes for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Art World. He is also the author of A Fête Worse Than Death and We’re British, Innit (which will be published by Collins on 1 September). He grew up near to the Dreamland amusement park in Margate, Kent.

Carny Town is a Space Station Sixty-Five curation by Rachael House and Jo David at Portman Gallery. For more info go to
Space Station Sixty-Five

Space Station Sixty-Five is one of the very few genuinely independent art spaces in London which has consistently positioned itself alongside the most engaged, exciting and radical contemporary practice. Long may it last!
Dave Beech, artist and critic

Space Station Sixty-Five
an artist-run space in south-east london.

65 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET

w www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
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Keynote to Life and It's Insperable Works Watercolour on Wall 2008

Diary Drawing:
Gabrielle Bell David Blandy Oliver East Alex Fox Miriam Katin Sarah Lightman Lady Lucy
Mio Matsumoto Rutu Modan Ariel Schrag Rebecca Swindell

The Centre for Recent Drawing 2-4 Highbury Station Road LONDON N1 1SB
Wed-Fri 12-6 (Highbury/Islington tube/rail) www.c4rd.org.uk+ 44(0)2032396836

The Centre for Recent Drawing presents Diary Drawing, an exhibition curated by Sarah Lightman. Diary Drawing brings together disparate types of visual journals and autobiographical graphic novels to examine drawing and diary making as process of thinking and acting, fundamental to human experience. Diary Drawing explores the application of line as a means of documenting, rendering and transcribing intimate and individual histories to a public audience.
Lightman has included artists who use conventional idioms of comic-making as well as more exploratory employments of materials: cigarette paper drawings, sketch books and an online blog. The artworks show diary drawing as a method of documenting performance, journeys, romantic disappointments and the survival of the Nazi Holocaust and cancer. This exhibition also includes artworks that use diary drawing as a method of pursuing fictitious autobiographies.
This show will tour to The School of the Arts, Northampton University, for the month of June 2008 for the conference Paraliterary Narratives; Reassessing the Graphic Novel (6-7th June 2008).
A panel discussion with Paul Gravett and exhibiting artists: 6.15-7pm, 8 May 2008. Press enquiries please contact Sarah Lightman 07811394315
The exhibition will coincide with the presentation as part of C4RD's online residency programme of published entries of the diary of artist Daphne Warburg Astor, who has kept a visual and written diary for forty years.
C4RD is not-for-profit, and is staffed and supported by the generosity of individuals and corporate donors. We would specifically like to thank for this exhibition ARTUPDATE.COM/.

Lady Lucy is 10 !

To celebrate this the artist is selling some of her work. Some things that are a bit like the B sides OR DVD extra's to the main features. Others are classics.
You will find all of these things in Lady Lucy's 10th anniversary sale. A RARE opportunity to buy drawings. prints and illustrations direct from the artist.

EVENT !
Saturday 8th December from 12- 5 pm
Unit 19, Spike Island Sculpture
Everything must go.

ONLINE !

From 1st till the 18th December.

Here on Facebook and on Flickr, Livejournal and Myspace too.

If you like the look of something please email me or message me at ladylucy.art@gmail.com
and I will forward payment and delivery instructions

Look out over the next few days for items being posted.

Link to sale items

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladylucy/sets/72157603209402137/

Lady Lucy Links

http://www.beingll.com

http://www.myspace.com/a_project_by_ladylucy
http://www.unit2.co.uk/lucy/index.html

Excerpt from The Importance Of Being Lady Lucy written by Eddie Chambers
The text was published in the catalogue for the solo show Being Lady Lucy, Drawings and Sketchbooks at Unit 2 Gallery

There is something that is almost primeval about Lady Lucy�s drawings. Though she is a highly skilled and highly trained artist, her sketches might at first appear to be the product of an untrained hand and an untutored mind. Almost as if they are latter-day versions of early cave paintings. She cares little (indeed, she cares not at all) for the niceties and conventions of scale, perspective and other dictates that we might associate with the well-drawn image. There is nothing correct about her drawings. Instead, they embody what might at first appear to be a roughness and a crudeness that emphasizes the urgency of her need to draw. Her need to get down on paper that which puzzles, intrigues, charms, or interests her, leads to the creation of images that, in a multiplicity of ways, speak of and to the mixed upness, the bizarreness, the complexity, of modern life. I do of course use words such as roughness and crudeness advisedly. Lady Lucy�s drawings are after all sophisticated multi-layered and highly skillful renderings that succeed in obliging us to consider all manner of relationships and engagement that we might have with each other and with the world around us.

This exhibition features Lady Lucy�s acclaimed body of work, produced 2005-6, based on an obscure publication that she found in some or other charity shop. The World Filmography 1968 is a fascinating comprehensive guide to the thousands of feature films released around the world during that year. Using its assorted entries, Lady Lucy has produced a cacophony of imaginative, witty and thoroughly engaging drawings. Individually and collectively, these drawings tell us much about the human condition of people throughout the world in this most turbulent and seismic of years. Not from the problematic point of view of �fact�, or of supposedly objective observation, but from the infinitely richer and more textured perspective of the story-maker. Looking at and engaging with this series of work, we get an uncommon and truly wonderful sense of the human experience and the human potential, to oscillating degrees. Mystery, intrigue, suspense, comedy, pathos, almost as many varieties of relationships as we can comprehend, the triumph over adversity. Within Book of Books, all human life is well and truly here. And in considering the artist�s rendering of all human life, this work prompts us to reexamine and reconsider our own personal stories and histories, in the context of an endless assortment of other people�s stories, both real and imagined, released to the world in 1968. 1968! The year in which student and worker revolts almost toppled the French government of Charles de Gaulle, US troops massacred civilians in Vietnamese My Lai, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert Kennedy too was assassinated, and of course Jacqui Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. 1968. The year of Hey Jude, Mrs. Robinson, All Along the Watchtower, Born to Be Wild, Hello I Love You, and Sittin' on The Dock of the Bay. A definitive year. An intriguing year, made all the more so by Lady Lucy�s extraordinary document.

Lady Lucy�s drawings, together with the text that sometimes accompanies them, tell of a thousand and one conversations held, poignant or significant snippets of which have been committed to the pages of the artist�s sketchbooks, or on larger (or indeed, smaller) pieces of paper. At a time when process is often disparaged or set aside in favour of other ways of working, Lady Lucy�s practice represents a fresh and bold body of work that is, nevertheless (and perhaps surprisingly) very contemporary in its explorations of history, identity and culture. Drawing is, it seems, essential to her very life, existence and creativity. As she herself declares, �Drawing has become an essential ritual in my existence.� It�s rare indeed for an artist to openly declare such vulnerability and that it is this need to draw that lies behind the creating of such extraordinary bodies of work. We have much to thank Her Ladyship for.

The full version of the above text was published in the brochure to accompany the exhibition 'Being Lady Lucy. Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004-6�, by Bristol-based artist Lady Lucy. The exhibition was at Unit 2 Gallery, London, January 20 � March 10, 2007.