Lucy Andrews

Lucy Andrews makes sculptures, installations and architectural interventions. She combines organic and industrial materials to form dynamic arrangements in which the passage of time is incorporated or alluded to. Recently she’s been working with dust, soot, liquid chlorophyll, rocks, and molten plastic, addressing the provenance and longevity of these materials and probing their fundamental nature as well as the concept of nature itself. The work communicates a sense of contingency through forms that are fluid, amorphous and yielding, revealing the agency of ‘matter out of place’ in both human and non-human systems.
She proposed to use the residency to try out ideas for a new body of work. This will engage intimately with the landscape of Dunree by focusing on the fallible shifting layers of its physical surface, both architectural and geological. She is developing a casting process which traces the form of various terrains while also subsuming part of each into the form of removable ‘skins’. This process engages with the legacy of land art, and specifically Robert Smithson’s dialectic of Site and Non-Site; a displacement of part of a site, which goes on to become ‘a three dimensional map’ creating both a presence and an absence.

During her residency Lucy gave a public talk about her work and plans for the residency at Artlink.
Lucy Andrews is a graduate of NCAD Dublin, and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK and now works in Ireland and Belgium. Recent exhibitions include: Outgrowths at Leitrim sculpture Centre (2019) I send my love along the Boyne, Solstice arts centre, (2019) And the days run away like wild horses over the hills , Scoil Lorcáin, Dublin (2019) In 2018 she was resident at the Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, USA.