Dr Lucy Woollett
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Biography
Dr Lucy Woollett, also known as Lady Lucy – makes paintings, drawings and moving images. Her work is strongly informed by her interest in the social function and value of her activities as an artist and more specifically as a painter. She seeks to find meaning and political application in painting and draws on the art historical lineages of collaborative art practice and portraiture.
Studio works are concerned with the editing of imagery sourced from the second-hand printed page or the imagination. Taking an economic approach to scale, the work is made in series, applying processes of painting, layering, abstraction, refiguring, and the juxtaposing of multiple pictorial references where ideas merge through collage. In other works, fanciful forms appear, which are dreamt from the imaginary or channel a recent happening from real life, the screen or radio. The characterful and colourful works often include secondhand fabric items, and they are only finished when someone, something or someplace real or imagined appears.
Woollett has recently completed her first permanent public commission Foundation of Kindness, Shared Experience, Shared Burden, a composite group portrait painting made in participation with staff members of the Critical care Unit, Royal Marsden NHS Trust. She is a co-founder of The Drawing Exchange events with Kayle Brandon. Past projects and exhibitions include Herbert Butler Neighbourly Portraits, (2019-2021) Portraits for Services, Gifts and Favours, Museum of London (2017), Shrine to Dissent, Day of The Dead Festival, Bargehouse, London (2014), The Whitechapel Gallery Staff Portrait Studio (2011) and Volunteers, Festival of Britain Southbank Centre (2011).
Woollett completed her practice-based PhD at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton in 2022 an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea (2008) and BA Fine Art at University of Plymouth (1996)
Her research investigates how the process of portrait-making can function as a socially engaged practice, and ideas around art as gift, as means of post-capitalist exchange.
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