Lady Lucy CV
LADY LUCY CV
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Biography
Born in Birmingham 1974, Lucy Woollett aka Lady Lucy lives and works in London. Her innovative projects, which are often collaborations are characterised by a Do It Your self accessibility. Lady Lucy’s inspirations, tools and materials include: Feminism, pop music, internet, radio, fanzines, archives, portraiture, characters, drawing, watercolour, performance and interviewing. The artist is constantly in the process of producing an extraordinary range of drawn and painted artworks taken from real life and from the drawn page. From 2000 – 2008 she produced Being Lady Lucy, thousands of drawings of her friends, family and the people she came across in her sketchbooks. In 2006 She was nominated and included in Drawing Links at The Drawing Room, London, also touring to International 3, Manchester and Outpost Gallery, Norwich. In early 2007 a large collection of the artists drawing work was show in her first major solo show Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University. Her most recent projects are Ladies, All The Ladies (2008) a video documenting female DJs and MCs with the same moniker as the artist supported by Picture This Moving Image and Drawing Exchanges 2009 with Kayle Brandon a city wide participatory Drawing festival and exhibition at Spike Island, Bristol. Lady Lucy completed her MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2008.
Education
2008 MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
1996 BA Fine Art ( hons) University of Plymouth, Exeter College of Art and Design.
1993 Foundation, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone.
Solo Exhibitions and projects
2008 Ladies, All The Ladies Picture This Atelier Space, Bristol
2007 Being Lady Lucy Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004 -2006 Unit 2 Gallery, London.
2004 Movie Memories, Media Art Bath.
Selected Group exhibitions and projects.
2009
Drawing Exchange Festival, Spike Island, Bristol.
A Day in The Life Commissioned by Room 13, Hareclive.
Wellcome Trust Tattoo commissioned by General Public Agency, London
Chutney Preserves, Camberwell Arts Week, London.
Propeller Island, Upstairs at The Bear, Camberwell,London
Propeller Island, 29 Thurloe Place, London.
Zine Fest, Women's Library, London
2008
Awopbopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London
MA Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Brand New, Your Retro Cube Cinema, Bristol.
The Stratford Grapevine contributor, Platform For Art, London
Carny Town, a Space Station 65 Curation, Portman Gallery, London
MA Interim Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
Condensation, Decima Gallery, London.
The Chutney Preserves, Camberwell Green, London
Arts Monday, The Arts Club, Mayfair, London
Diary Drawing, The Centre for Recent Drawing and Nottingham University curated by Sarah Lightman.
The Marquis of Camberwell, Sun and Doves Pub, London curated by Space Station Sixty Five
Ladies, All The Ladies, Artists event, Cube Cinema Bristol, supported by Picture This and Arts Council England.
Bristol Meth, at London Short Film Festival, ICA London.
2007
Winner, of Best Female Character Award, Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London.
Lady Lucy’s 10th Anniversary Sale, Spike Island Studios, Bristol
Plan 9 Contemporary Art Auction. Plan 9, Bristol.
How To Draw Collaborating Artist with Anna Lucas, Chisenhale Gallery Education.
Drawing 2007, Biennial Fundraiser, Drawing Room, London.
Transistor, South Bank Centre, London
Spike Island Open, Bristol.
Botanical Drawing, Exchange, Spike Island, Bristol.
Bildweschel screening, CCA, Glasgow.
Screening, Ladyfest Berlin
Sparror Screenings, Artist Television Access Space, San Francisco, U.S.A
2006
Drawing Links Drawing Room, London, touring to International 3 Manchester, and Outpost Gallery, Norwich.
Printmaking Residency, Spike Island, Bristol.
The Great Art Quest, Arts and Kids, Arnolfini Education Bristol.
For Peel curated by Harry Pye, No More Grey Gallery, London
2005
Selected for Small Wonders artist’s film and video scheme, Picture This Bristol.
Being Lady Lucy on the Waterfront, commissioned by Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
Poster Show, Lot Gallery, Bristol.
Artist Talks and work presented.
2009
Artist talk End of The Line Attitudes in Drawing Hayward Touring Bristol City Museum
10,000 Drawings, Drawing Exchage Festival , Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
2008
BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Ladies, all The Ladies Panel discussion, chaired by Bridget Crone, Picture This, Bristol.
Panel discussion with Paul Gravett, Diary Drawing Centre for Recent
Drawing, London.
2007
Cube Cinema Tour, Arnolfini Port City, Bristol.
Lady Lucy in Conversation with Eddie Chambers, Unit 2 Gallery, London.
2006
In Conversation at The Drawing Room with Lucy Byatt, Lynda Morris and the artists.
Artist’s residency talk, Spike Island printmakers, Bristol.
2005
Independent Heroines on tour, Prologue New Feminism, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
Teaching, professional, curatorial and artist led activities
2009 Visiting lecturer, BA Fine Art, University of Plymouth.
2008 BA Fine Art shadow tutoring scheme Chelsea College of Art and Design
Ongoing from 2006 Drawing Exchange festival and events
2004 – 2006 Interpretation Group Spike Island, Bristol
2001 – 2006 Director, Cube Cinema, Bristol.
2005, 2003, Curator Independent Heroines Film Festival.
Awards
Shortlsted Red Mansion Art Prize ( 2009)
AHRC Postgraduate Award, Professional Preparation ( 2008)
Arts Council Grants For The Arts ( 2009, 2007, 2004 )
Film Council, South West Screen ( 2005)
Feminist Review Trust ( 2005)
Selected bibliography and publications
Drawing Everybody to Drawing' Sarah Lightman. Art Rabbit Feature April 2009.
Vernacular Spectacular, published by Club Shepway
Ladies, All The Ladies DVD Essay by Lucy O Brien published by Picture This 2008
‘The Importance of being Lady Lucy’ by Eddie Chambers and Unit 2 catalouge 2007
'Young Pretty Things' The Times 2006.
‘There’s A Lady On The Phone For You’ by Lucy Byatt, Drawing Links Catalogue, published by Drawing Room 2006
The Arty Book, published by Transition Editions 2004
Movie Memories published by Media Art, Bath 2004.