beingll.com is the website for London and Bristol based artist Lady Lucy, including the web archive of Being Lady Lucy a sketchbook portrait project that the artist pursued from 2000 - 2008.
An exhibition of many items from this work were included in Being Lady Lucy, Drawings and Sketchbooks at Unit 2 Gallery, London in Spring 2007.
Lady Lucy's CV
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 LucyÕs inspirations, tools and materials include: Feminism, pop music, internet, radio, fanzines, film culture, characters, performance and interviewing. The artist is constantly in the process of producing an extraordinary range of drawn artworks taken from real life and from the drawn page. She always has her sketchbook and drawing materials with her, endlessly creating her portrait series, Being Lady Lucy . She was for a time involved in the running and programming of Cube Cinema, alternative and imaginative artists run cinema in Bristol. Her most recent projects include a film documenting female D.JÕs and McÕs with the same moniker as the artist supported by Picture This Moving Image and Drawing Exchange a social drawing event , a collaboration with Kayle Brandon. In 2004 she was commissioned by Media Art Bath to produce a book, Movie Memories which was constructed around interviews with individuals at Age Concern North East Somerset. It has been described as Ôa heart warming and delicious little bookÕ. 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. Lady Lucy is currently studying for MAFA at Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Education
2008 MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
1996 BA Fine Art ( hons) University of Plymouth, Exteter College of Art and Design.
1993 Foundation, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone.

Forthcoming
MA Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Ladies, All The Ladies Picture This Atellier Space, Bristol

2008
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, London and Northampton University curated by Sarah Lightman.
The Marquis of Camberwelll, 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, London.
2007
LadyLucyÕs 10th Anniversary Sale, Spike Island Studios, Bristol
Plan 9 Contemporary Art Auction, Bristol.
Drawing 2007, BiennialFundraiser, Drawing Room, London.
Transistor, South Bank Centre, London
Spike Island Open, Bristol.
Botanical Drawing, Exchange, Spike Island, Bristol.
Being Lady Lucy Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004 -2006 Unit 2 Gallery, London ( solo)
Winner, of Best Female Character Award, Halloween Short Film Festival, London.
2006
Nominated for Drawing Links, Drawing Room, London, touring to International 3 Manchester, and Outpost Gallery, London.
For Peel, curated by Harry Pye, No More Grey Gallery, London
Printmaking Residency, Spike Island, Bristol.
Destination Blatz, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
2005
Selected for Small Wonders artistÕs film and video scheme, Picture This Bristol.
Being Lady Lucy On The Waterfront, commissioned by Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
Poster Show, Lot Gallery.
2004
Movie Memories Artist publication and event commissioned by Media Art, Bath.
I am afraid of Andy Warhol, I am a friend of Andy Warhol, artists exhibition, event and publication Ilbordello, Bristol

Artist Talks and work presented.

2008
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.
ArtistÕs residency talk, Spike Island printmakers, Bristol.
2005
Independent Heroines on tour, Prologue New Feminism, Cornerhouse, Manchester.

Curatorial and artist led activities

Ongoing from 2006 Various Drawing Exchange Events, Bristol, London and Suffolk.
2001 Ð 2006 Director, Cube Cinema, Bristol.
2005, 2003, Curator Independent Heroines Film Festival.
2003 Curator, Comic Book Queens, Spike Island, Bristol
2003 Organiser Ladyfest Bristol.

Awards

AHRC Postgraduate Award, Professional Preparation ( 2008)
Grants For The Arts ( 2007)
Film Council, South West Screen ( 2005)
Feminist Review Trust ( 2005)
Arts Council Research and Development ( 2004)

Bibliography and publications

ThereÕs A Lady On The Phone For You, by Lucy Byatt,
The Importance Of Being Lady Lucy by Eddie Chambers.
Drawing Links Catalogue , published by Drawing Room 2006
The Arty Book, published by Transition Editions 2004
Movie Memories published by Media Art, Bath 2004.
Ô Young Pretty ThingsÕ The Times, April 2006.
'Cube Culture' Ben Slater, Variant Magazine 2002