Lucy Stevens is a British artist based in Leicester, UK. Her multidisciplinary approach explores our connection to the natural environment and our perspective on nature conservation using drawing, painting, sound, installation and most recently sculpture.
Her interest in interpreting nature conservation case studies is supported by experts in the natural world including scientists, ornithologists and museum curators. She has developed a visual language embodied with colourful, repetitive motifs and coded mark making to interpret birdsong, migration and the changing landscape which runs through her series of bird portraits and abstract paintings. As an amateur birdwatcher, avian subjects are a recurring theme in her artwork, including site-specific installations at festivals and sound works developed with musicians to deliver concerts inspired by birdsong.
Since graduating from the BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2005 and the MA in Fine Art in 2007 at Nottingham Trent University, Stevens has exhibited across the East Midlands and London. Selected solo exhibitions include Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham Museum & Art Gallery, StudionAme (Leicester), Bankside Hotel (London). Selected group exhibitions include Attenborough Arts Centre (University of Leicester), Nottingham Trent University, De Montfort University (Leicester), Tarpey Gallery (Derby), Harley Gallery (Nottinghamshire) and at The Other Art Fair and Affordable Art Fair. Her work has also been exhibited as part of artist residencies at Bankside Hotel (London), Cove Park (Scotland), Ricklundgården (Sweden) and CAMAC (France).
Read Lucy’s artist CV here.