About

Bio

Lucie (b.1995, London) uses drawing, print and sculpture to create landscapes and dreamscapes which activate discursive non-linear temporalities. She graduated with an MA in Print from The Royal College of Art in 2023. Lucie also holds a BA (hons) in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art where she received the Royal Glasgow Institute Graduate Award.

Lucie has exhibited in a variety of galleries and project spaces in London and Glasgow, most recently at Southwark Park Galleries, The Pump House Gallery and The Truman Brewery.

Statement

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful and everything conceals something else.”

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

I have recurring dreams about walking in circles, with no destination, through the heath behind the house I grew up in. I am trying to trace connections between past, present and future in places where the air is thick and heavy with memories. Spaces that reverberate with lived histories and potential futures all inextricably wrapped up in each other fascinate me. These landscapes have their own temporal climate which makes room for drifting and daydreaming as subtle forms of resistance to corporate, ahistorical approaches to urban space. I photograph these places as I encounter them in my every-day life, from the concrete ghosts of modernist projects to liminal borderlands where the city dissolves into canals, heaths and other untamed spaces. Images from this photographic archive are recreated through a forensic process of drawing. Repetitive, laborious approaches to mark making lengthen and pay homage to ephemeral and profound experiences of the overlooked.  

Screen-printing enables drawings to migrate from image to object, taking on fresh associations as they engage with a diverse array of surfaces. Seemingly ubiquitous urban objects are warped and transfigured, rebuilt in steel, copper, clay and wood. This uncanny transmutation emphasises the unfixed, malleable nature of the spaces they originate from. Layered images and unexpected material fusions create hybrid landscapes, operating as archaeological sites, where histories both personal and collective are built and buried.