Lucy Andrews was artist in residence at Artlink at the end of 2019. Lucy combines organic and industrial materials to form
dynamic arrangements in which the passage of time is incorporated or alluded to and points of tension and collapse between natural and human-made systems are embodied. Fort Dunree with its abandoned military buildings, gradually melting into the landscape, was obviously going to attract her attention.
She used the residency to try out ideas for a new body of work which engages intimately with the landscape of Dunree by focusing on the fallible shifting layers of its physical surface, both architectural and geological. She developed a casting process which traces the form of various terrains while also subsuming part of each into the form of removable ‘skins’.
This October, she returns to create a site-specific installation, in which she reflects upon the gaps that have since appeared, in both an architectural and a temporal sense.
Lucy was born in Stoke-On-Trent, UK. She is a graduate of NCAD, Dublin and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. Exhibitions include Outgrowths at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2019); Lowlife at Le Plafond Amsterdam (2016); Magnetism at Hazelwood House, Sligo (2015). She was resident at the Bemis Center, USA (2018) and Est-Nord-Est, Canada (2020).
- October 28, 2021
