Lady Lucy
Moiré Found Places / Gifts Display Shop
Asylum Studios, Building E2 Bentwaters Parks, Rendlesham, Suffolk IP12 2TW
September 6th – 14th Open Weekends 11- 4pm
Preview: 1-4 pm Saturday 6th September
Moiré Found Places / Gifts Display Shop is an exhibition intertwining two bodies of
work by artist Lady Lucy. Her collaged and painted wall hangings, utilise the surfaces
of found fabric materials, layering these with tinted acrylic gesso, water-based oils
and cut fabric to discover real or imagined places through gesture and process.
The installation of painted wall hangings echo the interconnections
between the design of Moiré fabric and sea, forest, radio waves
at the gallery site. Asylum is situated on a former RAF Station active between WW2
and the Cold War – in proximity to the Suffolk coast and surrounded by Rendlesham Forest.
The Gifts series are painted objects using product packaging accumulated from the
artist’s life: containers for stock cubes, avocados, iphones, chocolates,
antidepressants, asthma inhalers, tea, dates, painkillers, satsumas, tomatoes, ice
cream, granola, biscuits and bleach. The Gifts are priced using an analogue
algorithm which offers a range of affordable artworks and prompts questions about
the value of the art object.