| thank you! |
[May. 4th, 2008|09:49 pm] |
It's nice to know somebody is still reading !!
thank you!
Body:
hey lady lucy,
I dunno if oyu remember me.......im nosh, coral's good friend & partner in crime this side of the atlantic??
aaanyhoo, im also an artist and i hadn't done anything personal in about 7 years - just exploring other forms. i habitually check out other artists who draw/do similar hings and i started to read your various blogs.
the short version is that i bought the brushpen that you recommended and its TOTALLY got me back on track. I would sell that pen, every single stroke is perfection.
so i thank you form the bottom of my heart for sharing the knowledge.
*i may sound a bit ike a wingnut but i had gotton so bad that i felt i had 'forgotton' to draw cos i used the computer so much. shocking state of affairs.
I hope the MA year goes fantastically
in solidarity!
nosh ;-) |
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| Diary Drawing |
[May. 1st, 2008|11:15 am] |
Hope you can make it. All the best LL xx
Diary Drawing:
Gabrielle Bell
David Blandy
Oliver East
Alex Fox
Miriam Katin
Sarah Lightman
Lady Lucy
Mio Matsumoto
Rutu Modan
Ariel Schrag
Rebecca Swindell
Private view: 7-9pm, 8 May 2008
Open: 8-23 May 2008 Wed - Fri 12- 6pm
A Panel discussion with Paul Gravett and exhibiting artists: 6.15-7pm, 8 May 2008.
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 possess’ of thinking and acting fundamental to human experience. Diary Drawing explores the application of line as a means of documenting or transcribing intimate and individual histories to a public audience.
Lightman has included artists who use conventional idioms of comic making alongside more exploratory employment of materials: cigarettes are drawn on as well as sketch books and an online blog. The artworks included show diary drawing as a method of documenting performance, journeys, romantic disappointments, 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 Paraliterary Narratives; Reassessing the ‘Graphic Novel’ 6-7th June 2008
Acknowledged by The Times as "the greatest living historian of the comics and graphic novel form in this country", Paul Gravett is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster about international comics and director of the Comica festival at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 2008, he curated Manhua! China Comics Now, the first exhibition of contemporary Chinese comics in the UK, part of the China Now festival. His latest books with Peter Stanbury are The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics (Robinson) and the forthcoming Incredibly Strange Comics (Aurum). www.paulgravett.com
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.
Press enquiries please contact Sarah Lightman 07811394315 |
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| Plan 9 Auction Friday 21st September |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|06:47 pm] |
PLAN 9 CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION
FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2007
Champagne & Chocolate Preview 6-7pm
Auction starts at 7pm
Church of St Thomas, St Thomas Street, Bristol, BS1 6QR
Plan 9 is offering a unique opportunity to buy contemporary art work from
established UK and emerging Bristol-based artists at our Contemporary Art
Auction.
Artists include Claire Barclay, Marcus Coates, Ruth Claxton, Sue Tompkins,
Hayley Tompkins, Harrison & Wood, as well as work from emerging Bristol-based
artists.
A special champagne and chocolate preview will enable potential buyers to view
the work and chat to the artists before the auction gets underway.
The work can be viewed two weeks before the auction on the Plan 9 website
http://www.plan9.org.uk, where viewers will be able to place bids in advance
and read more about the artists and their work.
All the work on sale has been donated and all proceeds will go toward Plan 9’s
future programme.
For further information please contact info@plan9.org.uk or Tel: 07813 728674
Artists:
Can Altay, Claire Barclay, Catherine Barclay, Chris Barr, Richard Box, Kieran
Brown, Ryan Brown, Julian Claxton, Ruth Claxton, Nimjo Chung, Marcus Coates,
Karen Di Franco, Anton Goldenstein, Colin Higginson, Toby Huddlestone, Marcus
Jefferies, Tom Johnson, Lady Lucy, John Lawrence, Dillan Marsh, Sophie Mellor,
Jack Newling, Eamon O’Kane, Mahali O’Hare, Annabel Other, Ben Pollock, John
Pym, Will Rounce, Ben Rowe, Mark Samsworth, Angus Sanders-Dunnachie, Lisa
Scantlebury, Elin Thomas, Sue Tompkins, Hayley Tompkins, Sophie Warren &
Jonathan Mosley, Simon Webb, Conor Wilson, Paul Wood & John Harrison and
others. |
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| DRAWING EXCHANGE 3rd April , Objects |
[Mar. 27th, 2007|04:48 am] |
http://www.irational.org/kayle/drawing_exchange/objects/
OBJECTS
A NIGHT FOR DRAWING OBJECTS
Tuesday 3rd April 7 pm - 10 pm Bristol County Sports Club ( BSCS) 40 Colston Street, Bristol
This evening is dedicated to the observational study of objects;
the things we carry, use, disuse and live with.
A series of drawing exercises will be set that enable exploration
of subject and experimentation into drawing practise. If you have
any suggestions for an exercise please bring it with you.
This is not a drawing class; it is a drawing social.
Bring paper and drawing utensils, including boards and easels (if
you use them).
The BCSC will provide; a paying drinks bar, a ploughman's (£2.00),
jukebox and comfortable well arranged space.
This event is part of an ongoing drawing exchange program.
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| news news, lots going on, last chance |
[Mar. 7th, 2007|01:44 am] |
Ok here is the LL news
LAST CHANCE TO SEE BEING LADY LUCY Sketchbooks 2004- 2006 . TIL 10TH MARCH. Over 200 drawings on show. New slide show, Vitrines, displays of my pop culture books, and sketchbooks. Poster to take away if you ask nicely, a comments book...
Here: http://www.unit2.co.uk
Transistor a show at the RFH. Or in a shop by the RFH.
Great to be on South Bank. I am honored to be a guest artist in this show curated by Frank and Chuck Elliot ( of Foundry Books fame)
http://www.transistor.uk.com
Come to Bristol Meth on 24th March. Don't Do Tricks is screening and friends are playing and screening their films. Spitz, London B THERE...
New Plan B out with the singles from the singles column remixed by moi.
http://www.planbmag.com
More not so news ish entry action soon
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| I have much to tell you. |
[Feb. 19th, 2007|02:38 pm] |
As per usual, I have much to tell you, but you might have to wait untill we meet again properly.
In the meantime. Tonight I am going to The Karen Kilimnik at Serpentine.
I am super excited about this as in Independent Heroine zine *1, I published a very sweet letter
from Karen.
On flowerey notepaper A5 size
April 3rd 97
Dear Lucy,
Thank you for you nice letter that Lisa and Nora forwaded to me.
I'm so glad you liked my paintings. I'll try and look for a slide of
a painting to mail to you with this letter. I'm sorry it took me so long to answer but I am
a terrible letter writer. I still have thankus from 5 years ago that I keep meaning to write.
With very best wishes and good luck with your magazine. It sounds great.
Karen ( Kilimnik)
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/02/karen_kilimnik_20_february_9_a_1.html |
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| Being Lady Lucy : Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004-2006 |
[Jan. 3rd, 2007|02:37 pm] |
Hi.
Hope you can make it down to this, be great to see you there
It's my Solo show . . .
All the bestest as ever
LL
Being Lady Lucy: Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004-2006, Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University 20 January to 10 March 2007. Curated by Eddie Chambers
Exhibition preview : Sat 20th January 2006 2-4 PM
Artist in conversation with curator Eddie Chambers
Thursday 8th February 2007 7pm at Unit 2.
This exhibition brings together several bodies of work by the enigmatic Bristol-based artist, Lady Lucy, produced over the past couple of years. The exhibition also features a selection of the fascinating source material from which the artist draws inspiration for her candid and fascinating studies of human existence, be that existence real, imagined, remembered, or meticulously constructed.
Lady Lucy is an artist like no other. Her chosen medium is drawing and to this end, she is constantly in the process of producing an extraordinary range of drawn art works. Her appetite for the act of drawing is vociferous. Never, it seems, is she without her beloved sketchbook. Compulsively, she draws at every opportunity. In the main, she takes as her subject matter people around her. People she knows, people she meets, people with whom she comes into contact, and people she observes. In the case of the people she observes, these are drawn from the printed page as frequently as from real life.
From The Importance of Being Lady Lucy, text for exhibition brochure, by Eddie Chambers
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Unit 2 Gallery
London Metropolitan University
Central House
59-63 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7PF
http://www.unit2.co.uk |
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| From one side of the country to the other and back again.. |
[Sep. 23rd, 2006|12:29 pm] |
This morning got my World Filmography series back from Norwich. It was very well packaged although I have got to remove the curator tape from it. Also this morning I have been in contact with Adam Chodzko who has agreed to mentor me. It looks like I'll be taking a days trip to Whitstable in a few weeks time to meet the artist in his home habitat. I am fairly excited about this. Infact that week I will be travelling to and from the other side of the country rather a lot. I have to hang The Brighton show and it's my Dad's and Step Mum's 60's birthday barn dance in Kent and have to come back to Bristol inbetween to work on
The Arnolfini project. Mind you I am used to sitting down and reading after doing hours and hours of invigilating so I don't think I will mind the travelling too much.
Tonight come and see the QWACK F. at Cube
Lady and the MPC were going to be doing something, but have
decided to save that for another time and sing the skateboard song " I ride my Skateboard yeah" and try out a new performance idea...
I have a lot of drawings to draw... |
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| menus |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|10:58 am] |
So it's all been about menus in the last week.
On Friday there was some heavy duty cooking action from LM, AF and LL.
It was for an after screening talk about Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashbi's new
film Flash in The Metropolitan. The artists had literally flashed their camera lights in the Metropolitan ( The Metropolitan of New York, where else !) of an evening and filmed the ancient, roman ? Statues and machettes in the flash. The artists where a little disapointed because it was suposed to be
on 16mm but the cutter rang the artists in the final hour before the screening and explained that the film wasn't finished. It all took place on the first floor of
an old warehouse in Bristol called The A Bond. It felt like this event wasn't in Bristol and as we prepared and ran around cutting and spreading many people arrived from the Bristol Art scene and we were hoping that they would like our menu.
We picked all our dishes from the menus samples on the met museums website. (More or less)
We presented
Tuna Salad on Sesame Brioche
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Spannish Tortilla
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Zuchinni and tomato tart
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Smoked salmon with a dill lemon and honey sauce
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Dates syuffed with blue cheese and walnuts
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homous
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olives
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bread
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It seemed that people liked it as there wasn't very much left over.
The artists also loved the concept which made us happy.
Afterwards at the pub it seemed that Being LL has been working it's
wonders. RN said she found this when googling herself...
http://www.beingll.com/wordpress/index.php?cat=433
So that's the food menu over and done with.
Oh except for last night we were in Wagamamas and I notice that
on the paper menu sheets on the table they have a space for
you to draw pictures. So Wagamamas gets points for that !
And the other menu I am talking about Is the DVD menu. and it looks great. But do you know what i am gonna make another post about that and it's going to be Saying BYE ME. |
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| voracious. |
[Aug. 17th, 2006|10:48 pm] |
Appaently the artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer are both very voracious. That's just as well as we are gonna be making them a dinner when present their new collaborative film on 1st Septemeber at A Bond as part of BAS6.
Hope you can make it.
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme.html?section=future
according to the website it says "join us for a little lite refreshment."
But we're are going to all this fuss !!
And talking of food I need to try and loose a stone in 3 months. HELP. What is gonna happen
if I am voracious all of the time ?
In other news Thanks Sasha for co- curating my bedroom. It looks and feels swell...
Sasha is a diamond.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladylucy/117565455/
Then Sasha's lovely boyfriend Tom cooked us a great meal.
Oh btw The meeting in London on Monday went really well. It included lunch.
Tomorrow the diet starts, but don't expect Bridget style calorie intake and alcohol units... |
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| Dancing Times in colour |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|03:09 pm] |
Yesterday I started work on a new series of drawings.
They are in colour, well each drawing uses one colour selected from my depleted stock of Karisma colour pencils.
They are big, well bigger than before and they feature
the ballroom dance champions of years gone by.
Afterwards I took them round to Art husband to have a look.
The consensus is good. I like them and want to make some more ! |
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| Hollyoaks Art students or radical performance students ? |
[May. 7th, 2006|02:35 am] |
Tonight I encountered two type of student Art ocassions.
The first was a sculpture exhibition in a student flat slap back in the heart of night club zone Bristol. The sculpture was OK, they were enthusiastic about what they were doing. But there were holes in the corridoors that had been punched through the walls and it stank of that smoke skunk in your bedroom smell. It all seemed very Hollyoaks to me.
Second event was way cooler. Radical performance lecturer and culture jammer John Jordon got his pupils to do this project
http://firstfreebus.co.uk/
Bristol bus prices have been on the increase in Bristol of late and
this is a satire piece where the performers dressed up as first reprentatives and sang and danced entertainment to Bristolian Bus
travellers.
The screening of the film that this group made aired and premiered at 9.30 in the ampitheatre where skaters go to practise tricks ( Otherwise known as the Lloyds buidling on the docks opposite fini.
Just wondering which student ocassion you would most like to frequent.
Would you rather do Fine Art Sculpture or radical performance ?
I know what I would choose. |
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| Last Chance Saloon /on tour |
[Apr. 27th, 2006|07:26 pm] |
Who remembers Last Chance Saloon. Circa late nineties, early noughties.
Run by Sue Prince who does this: http://www.nudemagazine.co.uk/about-us.htm ?
Anyhow the reason I was thinking of Last Chance Saloon was that it's your
last chance in London to see the Drawing Room exhibition that I am in Drawing Links
this weekend.
Ends 30th April.
Scroll down to see details or click
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk
Drawing Links is then going to these places
Hope you'll be able to make it there too
12 May - 11 June 2006
International 3
8 Fairfield Street
Manchester
M1 3GF
2-21 August 2006
Outpost Gallery Norwich
10b Wensum Street
Norwich
NR3 1HR |
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| Talk by Lady Lucy and Kayle Brandon |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|02:46 pm] |
Talk by Lady Lucy and Kayle Brandon
Date: 26 April 2006 (Time: 18.30)
Venue: Spike Island Printmakers Studio, 133 Cumberland Basin Road, Bristol BS1 6UX
Lucy Woollett aka Lady Lucy is an artist and curator. She will talk about her on-going work in progress "Being Lady Lucy" - her sketchbook portrait series, the alternative influences that have inspired her work and the prints and poster work she has developed during her time at Spike Island. Kayle Brandon is currently interested in exploration, domestic infrastructure, physical adventure and the urban environment. Out of these interests come events, maps, guides and manuals. As part of the Spike Island print residency she is making Cube-Cola propaganda.
Contact: Spike Island Printmakers Telephone: 0117 929 1035 Email: spikeprint |
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| Revelations: from 8.11.05 / Diane Arbus at The V and A |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|06:24 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, art and life, artists, diane arbus, feminist, germaine greer, jem cohen, lists, new york city, photographers, photography, v and a museum | ] |
How could I come to the Diane Arbus retrospective/ celebration/ biographic at
The V and A and not write in my very own book of revelations.
I am intrested in Diane Arbus not only because she was the fore runner of
modern masters of today such as Todd Slonz and Nan Goldin.What really strikes me about this show is the attention to detail given to the photographers practise.
Documented is what camera she used. The Rollieflex and Nikon 35 mm. Such classics. How she made notes and lists in her diary and notebooks and how these
ideas were proposed to magazine editors.
Diane Arbus's mehods remind me of the wonderful Jem Cohen film Lost Book Found. which reminds me of the book Joe Gould's secret.
I shall re read what Germain greer has to say about Arbus. Who made a claim that in her use of ordinary and street people she took power over them to make her photography. But to me this is pure vanity. Germaine doesn't like the photo that was taken and there probably is a spookiness about it, as Arbus died soon after.
Arbus makes revelations to the viewers through her work. We truly see the world
as we have never seen it before when we view her work.
Different personalities and wondrous humanities juxtaposed against each other.
If anything this show makes me know that it's important to make lists, to get things done. It makes me feel like this relevant and possible to be an artist today. It's just a shame that one morning in 1971 Diane Arbus wrote suicide on her list of things to do that day. |
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| Bucks futures favourites |
[Apr. 14th, 2006|11:24 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | arnolfini, art, art prizes, artists film and video, becks futures, bristol, comic book, comic books, dancing, matt stokes, nothern soul, olivia plender | ] |
I thought my absolout favourite of Becks futures or "Bucks" as Olivia Plender calls it in her comic The Masterpiece part 5 was going to be Olivia and her comic.
And I do like it, though I suspect that Bristol has been ripped off and the originals by Oliva are at ICA and CCA not A The Bond Building in Bristol.
Instead we get a news print version of the comic book, which is OK and I expect cheap to distribute, and maybe that is what Olivia's comic look like normally, but I was expecting something more well comic book like.
The comic wins the award for noting that the Art world in the Uk today
is like a competitive sport. (Good job I come from a highly competitive sibling
gene pool huh?)
So the piece of art that blew my mind last night at The Becks Futures oppening was Matt Stokes Long After Tonight.
A church in Dundee, not sure what kind of church, but it's gothic and beguiling and as the film begins we get stills of it and it's surroundings. It's early in the morning, prehaps 4 oclock. You would expect this scene to be silent huh.
But inside the church there is a kind of Northern Soul all nighter soire.
My heavenis in that church. Reminds me of secret Lock in dancing parties we've had and you know where, except not with twee Bristol Indie kids, but with spohisticated scottish Soulsters.
Beautifully shot dancers with ace norhern soul outfits and attitude.
What is caught is that special group activity that is dancing, when everyone is
collectively taken by the music but each individual enraptured in their own unique dance.
I will be going back in the day to watch and dance.
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,,-10605375813,00.html |
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| ll_t2 |
[Apr. 11th, 2006|09:03 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, art for sale, art press, artists, book of books, drawing room, lady lucy, london, press clippings, the times, world filmography 1968 | ] |
Oh you pretty things
My art is to buy, according to The Times.
In the real paper there is a picture too...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2127630.html
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