Approved: 09.09.2021

Lucy Bevin

Artist, Film-maker, Maker

Approved: 09.09.2021

Lucy Bevin

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Artist Statement

Lucy Bevin

Statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, I completed a BA in Fine Art in Liverpool in the early 1980’s, then went onto a career as an Art Director in Film and TV Production Design. In 2019-2021 I completed an MA in Fine Art at UCA Farnham. My art practice incorporates sculpture, drawing, film and installation, the development of which is set within the concept of  the home and its objects including the house as object.

The work explores the notion of objects evolving and aligned with human life, accumulated and gathered within a single lived interior experience.

The current sculptural work explores the nature of the objects contained within the house and the interplay between the sculptural form and the found or domestic object.

Drawing on these concepts the sculptures explore the role of cherished possessions, domestic objects and clutter. The use of materials, a combination of clay, plaster, paper-mache, newspaper and acrylic paint reflects these explorations i.e the piling up of stuff - particularly newspaper and junk-mail coupled with the use of ornamental or domestic objects and furniture. These works investigate the nature and function of objects by the conjoining of subject and object. The sculptures become mutations or or ‘crossings’ representing a form of ‘enchantment’, a hybridity which produces a strange combination of delight and disturbance. There is a physicality and absurdity inherent within each of the pieces as well as bodily references, these are devices to connect with and lure the viewer in order to capture that moment of desire and disturbance in equal measures. 

The conjoining or hybrid nature of the sculptures gives rise to a new form or new thing, an uncanny hybridity which is not one thing or the other, not fixed, neither subject or object so therefore creating new possibilities for the work.

CV & Education

Lucy Bevin 

CV

 

Education

 

BA Hons Fine Art Liverpool Art College Liverpool Polytechnic

Post Graduate Diploma in film and TV Production Design Kingston University

MA Fine Art UCA Farnham 2021

 

Exhibitions

May 2023 L'age D'or Event Crypt Gallery London

Nov 2022 Manchester Contemporary Art Fair        

Nov 2021 Manchester Contemporary Art Fair

Sept 2021 Alt-terior Group Show Curated by 

Surrey Galleries Farnham.

July 2021 Forgotten Thought Group Show at

Safehouse 1 London.

June 2021 Unsettled Focus Group Show at

Gallery 17 South Molton Street

March 2021 Beyond The Boundaries Group 

Show Curated by Surrey Galleries Farnham.

July/August 2021 This Volatile State Curated 

by Fragility of Self On-Line Show.

July 2021 Distanced Domestic at MK11

Gallery(The Old Dairy Hall) London E5

April 2021 The Expanded Line Curated by

Haus-a-Rest On-line Show

Feb 2021 The Sky Has No Surface Curated 

by Artist/Curator Catherine McCaw-Aldworth

On-Line Show

Nov 2020 Nothing New Work by Three Artists

At UCA Farnham Pop Up Show

Sept 2020 Out of Isolation Group Show 

Curated by Surrey Galleries Farnham

March 2020 Unsettling Focus Group Show 

Curated by Surrey Galleries Farnham On-

Line Show

Dec 2019 Objections Group Show curated by 

MA Art Students Linear Gallery Farnham    

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1985 New Art Rochdale Art Gallery 

1986 Small Works Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool.    

1983 Bluecoat Invitational 9 Artists on

Merseyside Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool

1983 Women’s Work Hope Street Gallery                                                    

Liverpool Art College                                                                                                                        

1982 Northern Young Contemporaries                     

Whitworth Gallery Manchester

Artist Talk, filmed interview showing on Co. Curation’s website in conjunction with Distanced Domestic.

Member of Splynta Collective