Artistic Achievements
EXHIBITIONS
• June 2024 - OneSpace online exhibition - WHERE WE MEET
• June 2024 - Grasslands Art Prize Finalists - SPRINKLE TOES
• May 2024 - Facets - Finalists - Group Exhibition, Fairholme Toowoomba
• April 2024 - Featured Artist - Building Projections - Judith Wright Contemporary Art Centre
• Mar-Dec 2024 - ‘Perspective’ QRAA Queensland Tour
• Feb 2024 - Emerging Artist Exhibition curated by Jonathan McBurnie, Judith Wright Art Centre.
• Aug 2023 - Ex Tenebris Lux - The Condensery, Toogoolawah, Queensland.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
• July 2024 - Artist In Residence - Fireworks Gallery
AWARDS
• June 2024 - Grasslands Art Prize Finalists - SPRINKLE TOES
• May 2024 - Fairholme Toowoomba Facets - Finalists - FORAGINGS
• 2023 - Queensland Regional Art Award - Emerging Artist WINNER - ‘Where We Meet’
• 2023 - Queensland Regional Art Award - Emerging Artist Finalist - ‘Where We Meet’
• 2023 - Highly Commended - Ipswich Art Prize - ‘The Mechanic’
PUBLIC SPEAKING / WORKSHOPS
• April/June 2024 - Facilitsting Photo Club at The Condencery.
• February 2024 - Intervivew with Flying Arts for YouTube
• February 2024 - Inteview with Zone Imaging - UK Developer manifacture.
The Mechanic - 2023
The Mechanic
Highly Commended
Ipswich Art Prize 2023
Ex Tenibris Lux
I was awarded a mentorship with renowned artist Kellie O’Dempsey with will commence August 2023. My solo exhibition Ex Tenibris Lux will follow this in the Bomb Shelter Space of The Condensery in September 2023
Ex Tenebris Lux
Opening 23 Aug 2023 at The Condersery,
Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia.
Having birthed two magnificent lives into this world I was filled with so much loved and pride yet something within me had simultaneously disappeared or was at least hiding deep in a place I couldn’t find. This body of work is a journey of how those sinewy packages of dirty toes and sleepless nights found me and dragged me, The Artist out into the light.
The images are essentially about finding moments of calm and clarity amongst the madness of motherhood. It’s about the mundaneness of those endless duties and how they become filled with light, life and art.
I intentional use of light, shadow, texture and grain in the works to demonstrate those elements in my every day life. All works are shot on Silver gelatine film and processed by hand . While I can and do print my own work in the Darkroom I wanted these works to be large and impactful, for the viewer to emerged themselves to those moments captured.
Printed large format on vinyl.
Where We Meet
Finalist - Emerging Artists
Queensland Regional Art Awards 2023
This image photographed on medium format still film and hand processed explores perspective from psychological view point. It tussles with the different personas often harboured within us. In my case, it’s the mother verses the artist. We experience the world from totally different perspectives yet there is a sweet point, and calculated consolidation where those identities create something extraordinary.
Using texture, shadow and reflection the image invites the viewer to contemplate perspective both from a personal and universal point of view. The inverted image, coupled with the amalgamating shadow and reflections creates a sense of whimsical wonder throughout the scene.
‘Where We Meet’ creatively cerebrates the diverse tapestry of internal perspective, amongst the reality of an external environment.
Interview with Lucy Lumen on her Substacks page.
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