Line/Extended Exhibition and online essay response

Line/Extended has been open for 4 weeks now. The opening reception on the 17^th October involved a short speech and Q&A with exhibiting artists Rosana Antolí, Andrea V Wright and myself. Artist Jane Grisewood was not able to join in with the Q&A as Jane was otherwise engaged… performing her ‘Blind Drawing’ in the Gallery for the duration of the opening. In Line/Extended, I am exhibiting anti-form works ‘you will miss me when I go… and ‘Waisted/Wasted’, from my Offering series 2012-2019.

Dr Barbara Brownie, Associate Dean of School and Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, has written an essay responding to Line/Extended; Material doodles and drawing through space. 

Line/Extended continues until 20 December 2019

UHArts | University of Hertfordshire
College Lane, Hatfield
Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB
Tel: 01707 28 53 95

A few photos below from the Opening on 17^th October 2019

Left to right ; Photo Credit UHArts | University of Hertfordshire Line/Extended Opening; Speeches and Artists Q&A. Installation Overview; Lucy Brown; Lucy Brown talking with gallery visitor. Sculpture Overview by Andrea V Wright; Jane Grisewood performing Blind Drawing with participant; Final Blind Drawing overview by Jane Grisewood.

And my next Exhibition is…..

I am delighted to be exhibiting work in

‘Ctrl/Shift. New Directions in Textile Art’ A 62 Group of Textile Artists Exhibition

21 July –  9 Sept 2018

MAC Birmingham

First Floor Gallery

Cannon Hill Park

Birmingham

B12 9QH

0121 446 3232

Tuesday – Sunday (including Bank Holiday Mondays): 11am – 5pm

Free admission

 

Ctrl/Shift takes shifts and changes as its theme, in particular it is centred on artists whose practice is or has transformed, in small or large ways, especially towards expressions of innovation in textile art. These shifts may be around changing attitudes to control; the introduction of new materials and techniques; and/or the impact of innovative ideas and evolving technologies.

The exhibition concept has been developed in partnership with the 62 Group and independent curator Liz Cooper.

A couple of flirts to tempt you….

Total Support by Lucy Brown. Detail. Photo Credit; Yeshen Venema ©

Unruly by Lucy Brown. Detail. Photo credit; Alison Bettles ©

 

For further information please visit –

https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibition/ctrl-shift

http://www.62group.org.uk/

https://lizcooper.org/

Offerings de-install 2018

Can’t quite believe it is a month ago that I de-installed Offerings 2018…… time speeds but strangely stretches…The works came down quicker than they went up…… And you bought me to my knees….. Photos from de-installing Offerings at R-Space Gallery. Lisburn. Northern Ireland. 24-26^th March 2018

Lucy Brown 2018©

 

Offerings de-instalment. 24th – 26th March 2018

My solo exhibition ‘Offerings’ ends this Friday, 23^rd March. You have until 5pm this day to visit the exhibition on site at R Space Gallery, Lisburn Northern Ireland.

As from Saturday 24^th through to Monday 26^th March I will again be working on site at R Space, de-installing my ‘Offerings’. The Gallery will be open 11am – 5pm on these days for visitors to drop in and ‘meet the artist’ and view the works being de-installed. I hope you can make it.

http://www.rspacelisburn.com/offerings/

Works in the Exhibition are;

Anti form Sculptures; ‘Bit of Skirt.’  ‘Waisted/wasted.’  ‘Since I fell for you’

Wall based sculptures;  ‘In 1962 the birth control pill was available but….’   and  ‘Legs’

Hair works;   ‘Ladies Companions.’   ‘Reclaiming ones….’     ‘When I get older….’   ‘Lippy’ ‘Excess’ ‘Unruly’

Lucy Brown. Offerings Installation view. R Space Gallery 2018. foreground left -Waisted/wasted, right-Bit of Skirt back – Since I fell for you

Lucy Brown. Offerings Installation view. R Space Gallery. 2018. Foreground right Bit of Skirt. left Waisted: wasted. back since I fell for you

Lucy Brown. Offerings. R Space Gallery exterior Lisburn. NI 2018. In window – In 1962 the birth control pill was available but…’

Lucy Brown. Offerings R Space Gallery. far left; wall based hair work. When I get older…. right Waisted; wasted

Lucy Brown Offerings R Space Gallery 2018. left Waisted: wasted detail. right Bit of Skirt. Detail

Lucy Brown. Offerings R space Gallery 2018. Since i fell for you. detail

 

Lucy Brown ©2018

 

the secrets we keep from ourselves…. (tswkfo)

My work ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves….’ (2012-2015) is currently part the ‘Lace Unveiled’ exhibition at Newstead Abbey 10 March – 22 April 2018.

Lace Unveiled includes work by contemporary artists inspired by lace displayed within the rooms of Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of the Romantic Poet Lord Byron. Which are on shown alongside objects from the world-class Nottingham City Museums & Galleries Lace Collection. This is the first time ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves….’ will be installed solely byThe Nottingham Museums Team since the work was acquisition into Nottingham’s Textile Art Collection in 2016. I am very excited to see if my 218 page document of Installation Guidelines has worked ! ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves…’ is installed in Byron’s Dressing Room, which is next to his bedroom. Other Artists included in the Exhibition are Joana Vasconcelos, Joy Buttress, Manolis Papastavrou and Shane Waltener.

Lace Unveiled is part of Nottingham Museums’ Lace Unravelled public programme, which includes a symposium, which I am going to this week (15^th and 16^th March) and Lace Walks. Please follow link for further details.

http://www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk/explore/lace-unravelled

All photos ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves’ Artists Studio Installation 2015 ©Lucy Brown

 

Offerings Exhibition at R Space Gallery. Lisburn NI is now open!

The Exhibition install went well, took 8 days working on site. The opening reception took place on Saturday 24^th February and I ran a ‘Reconsidering Clothes’ workshop on Wednesday 28^th February. I have very much enjoyed the process of working with the gallery space. ‘Bit of Skirt’ and ‘waisted: wasted’ were finally completed in the gallery. Photos below are of installing the work, including the much needed scaffolding tower which, at times, seemed to became part of the work. Offerings continues until Friday 23^rd March 2018.

All photos ©Lucy Brown 2018

‘Offerings’ Solo Exhibition by Lucy Brown. 24th Feb – 23rd March 2018. R-Space Gallery Lisburn Northern Ireland http://www.rspacelisburn.com/offerings/

 

 

Solo Exhibition and the reveal of Professor Catherine Harper’s essay

‘Offerings’

Solo Exhibition by Lucy Brown

24th February – 23rd March 2018

R-Space Gallery

32 Castle Street

Lisburn

Northern Ireland

BT27 4XE

Opening reception and artist talk Sat 24^th February 2-4pm – please come and join us

Meet the Artist days 27^th & 28^th February 11am – 5pm

‘Offerings’ will bring together new and existing works from 2010-2017, including woven anti-form sculpture and hair-works. These works uses a mixed palette of old, unwanted clothing, hair and domestic related textile items as raw materials, and often depart from personal or collective experiences and explores themes around the body, femaleness, re-invention, textile histories and craft-labour. As from the 19^th February I will be in residence at R-Space Gallery, installing the exhibition. As part of the exhibition I will be working in the Gallery while open to the public, finalising the installation on 27th and 28th February 2018, drop in and have a chat with me about the work in situ.

I am also delighted to reveal Professor Catherine Harper’s newly written essay titled ‘Lucy Brown: ‘secrets she keeps from herself’ is now available to read on the R-Space Gallery’s Website – http://www.rspacelisburn.com/offerings/

Above image – detail of ‘Bit of Skirt…’ Offerings series. by Lucy Brown

 

 

 

A Very Special Wedding (Cage) Announcement

I am very delighted that my work ‘Wedding Cage’ has a new home within the Crafts Council Collection, London. Other supporting work, Ring-a-ring-a-roses – and Wedding Cages’ Cast-offs (in four parts) have also been housed there.

Wedding Cage is woven from two polyester, nylon hand/home-made 1970’s Wedding Dresses. The work was originally commissioned and made for the ‘Lookout’ 1998 exhibition programme, supported by Waterstones Bookshop, Brighton and Thames & Hudson publishers. The exhibition space was Waterstones shop window, formally in North Street Brighton.

Following the works’ debut ‘Lookout’ exhibition Wedding Cage has been exhibited extensively in a range of solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including   ‘Out of the Closet’, Sotheby’s London UK. ‘The Unexpected’, Sotheby’s New York, USA (both curated by Janice Blackburn). ‘The Absent Wearer’, University of Essex Gallery, UK. ‘Intimate Foundations’ (My first major touring Solo Exhibition) UK venues, ‘Brighton Fringe Festival 1999’, ‘Talente 2000’. Handwerkskammer; Munchen. ‘Woken with a Kiss’. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery UK and ‘Merging Cultures, Merging Arts’, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.

Images – top left; Wedding Cage. (photo credit Bob Curtis)

Top right; Ring-a-ring-a-roses

Remaining 4; Wedding Cages Cast offs

The final handover of ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves…’ 2012-2015

I am really so pleased to announce that ‘the secrets we keep from ourselves…’ (tswkfo) is now all safely in the store of Nottingham City Museums Art Textile Collection. This is to be the works’ new home. It has taken me a while to stabilize and prepare the work ready for its departure and to complete a 200 plus page document of installment guidelines and image library to support future installs of the work.

‘the secrets we keep from ourselves’ joins The Brides Clothes, The Brides Clothes Underwear, The Brides Clothes Wedding Album (2000-01), Squeeze (1999), Petti-fur-coat (1999) and Odd one out (2000), all part of Nottingham City Museums Contemporary Art Textile Collection.

My thanks to the team at Nottingham Museums for all their continued support, patience and assistance getting the tswkfo to it new home.

Photos from top left – the secrets we keep from ourselves. Artist studio 2015 – Lucy Brown© tswkfo. Work in progress detail – Lucy Brown© The Brides Clothes 2000-01. Angel Row Gallery Nottingham. Opening event 2001 Angel Row Gallery © Petti-fur-coat and Squeeze 1999. Pages from Only Human Exhibition Catalogue. Crafts Council 1999-2000. Craft Council Gallery©

East Sussex Open 2016 – Open !

The Towner Art Gallery’s East Sussex Open Exhibition 2016 opens today. My work ‘All at Sea’ is part of this exhibition and I attended the private view summer party event last night. What a great evening – Thank you Towner Art Gallery for another splendid opening.

This year ‘East Sussex Open’ brings together a diverse range of works by 70 East Sussex Artists, which were selected by a judging panel consisting of by Jenni Lomax, Director, Camden Arts Centre, Brian Cass, Towners’ Head of Exhibitions and Melanie Manchot, Artist. For the first time the Exhibition is presented the Towners’ Second Floor Galleries. On the ground and first for galleries there are two other major exhibitions; ‘Some Are Nights Others Stars’ an international group show, in full Towner Art Gallery style and ‘David Bomberg: A Sense of Place’. All three Exhibitions are free entry. ‘David Bomberg: A Sense of Place continues until 11^th September. ‘Some Are Nights Others Stars’ and East Sussex Open 2016 continue until 25^th September.

For full details for a great day out at one of the South Easts’ most prestigious and inclusive art venues please visit http://townereastbourne.org.uk it is well worth the visit!

‘All at Sea’ is a site Specific work originally made for and exhibited on the Ross Tiger fishing Trawler, Grimsby in 2014 for The 62 Group of Textile Artists Exhibition ‘Ebb & Flow’. Being selected for the Towner’s Art Gallery’s ‘East Sussex Open’ 2016 gives the work its debut in a Gallery Context. Further information about this work is on this blog and at http://www.axisweb.org/artist/lucybrown

Above – ‘All at Sea’ Detail. by Lucy Brown. Photographer credit; David Ramakalawon