Lucy Barlow MRSS

Arts Education

1993-1996       BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, Glasgow School of Art

Degree show selected by Pavel Buchler for inclusion in the Schools Photographic archive.

1991-1993      BA(Hons) 3D Design, Middlesex University

1990-1991      Art Foundation Course Distinction, Middlesex University

Fellowship

2014-               Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Membership

2019-               Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors

Residencies

2019                Awarded residency at Hospitalfield House 11-24 March 2019

Finalist

2019                1st Plinth Public Art Award, Royal Society of Sculptors

Upcoming Exhibitions

2020                Studio Experiments, Fish Island          POSPONED DUE TO COVID

2020                Gairloch Museum                               POSPONED DUE TO COVID

Other Work

2018/9            Teaching Key Stage 3 students the importance of creativity within Communities and how to apply creative thought to everyday practice.          

2017                Mentor, Highgate School and London Academy of Excellence Tottenham. 

2014-               MSA Architectural Practice

Arts Consultancy, advising on the theoretical and visual aspects of Design and Art for Architectural Competitions.

2017                22Q13 Family Conference

Arts Workshop Leader. Responsible for the creation and implementation of workshops for siblings of children with 22Q13 chromosomal deletion.

2012                Vice Chair of Governors, Brookfield Community School, London.

1997                Fashion PR, Assistant to Mandi Lennard.

Recent Exhibitions and Art Work

2018                SPACE STUDIOS 50th Anniversary, Hackney Wick

                        Rubha nan Sasan/Point of difficulty; development of Sculptural project using three types of drawing.

                        Private Drawing Commission.

2017                Womens Refugee Commission NYC, design finalist.

Loch Ewe Sculpture, ACME, Bow.

2016                BEAM CAMP, Boston MA. Technical Construction Assistant for MSA.

My current work considers the topographical nature of dispersal amongst small scale structures, buildings and shelters, and their relationship and co-existence through different time spans and periods of history. My studio practice is based on Fish Island, by the Olympic Park, in London,  and I have recently spent time in the west coast of Scotland where the less-densely habituated landscape has allowed buildings to naturally decompose and be reclaimed by the landscape in an un-hurried , un-accelerated process. Buildings that had very different purposes at the time of construction, with a single unifying theme of shelter. Some of these structures are built with modern materials such as concrete, others made simply of stone, before the availability of modern materials. I am currently exploring how to create a fictitious relationship between such structures, designing a sequential series of new sculptural repositories and shelters that cannot be easily defined by time or place, using a confusion of materials. As further designs are realised I expect my repositories to become less identifiable architecturally , and more sculpturally fluid in their nature.