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Lucy Carrick

Visual Artist

she/her

carrick.lucy8@gmail.com

ARTIST BIO

I am a multimedia artist based In A4 Sounds Studio in Dublin. I am working also as the building and facilities manager for A4 Sounds. I graduated with a BA in Fine Art Media, from NCAD in 2021. 

My background is  in film photography this is still my primary jumping off point for my work. In recent years I’ve been expanding my practice and skill set to printmaking, ceramics and textiles. 

My recent work is a continuation of a photo series exhibited August 2023, called Sun Worshiper, examining the relationship between summer, daylight, the sun and its effects on mental health and mania.   Recently I’ve been exploring these themes through research of religious relics and sacred texts. I’m In the processes of creating a series of experimental books.

SELECTED WORKS

Ties

Year 2024

Ceramic and wool

COMMUNE, Muine Bheag Arts. Punkfest, Zine Fair, Dock Arts Centre. Gaza Zine Fair, Ormond Studios

Sun Worshiper

Year 2023

Prints

"Meet me where I am", Unite 44 KIRKOS, group show

Credits

Artist/Collaborator Isabella Ustria, Johnny O’Grady, Shannon Ryan Kenny 

Meet me where I am’, was a self-curated collaborative group show of myself and three other artists, the work came from our push to make a space for ourselves as artists and friends in Dublin. Grounding ourselves in our place, when we all spent a lot of time leaving /coming back/starting again both in our physical places and in stages of life, oftentimes wishing to be anywhere else but where we are. The works are a reflection on our sense of place and the mental landscapes of our lives.

Sun worshiper was a series of prints, Following a thread of research and personal study into the connection between the sun and it’s effects on mental health and mania. Reflecting again on the mental and physical landscape  connection.

It all ends in tears

Year 2021

zine, photography

Ncad Grad (Virtual Exhibition)

Through this work I explored my interests in online mood board culture and why at the time I was finding myself so interested in this expression, the work ended up begin a very personal look at my relationship to femininity and my desire to find comfort in it. When girlhood for me felt like the slow realisation that everything, that I loved would intrinsically loose any value or regard just by me liking it. The photo-book, consists of writings, self-portraits, and collages

teenbot

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Year 2020

Media: AR Face filter, Digital Persona

Wish you were here, (virtual exhibition)

Credits

Song-Roy Orbison-Crying (1961)

Teenbot was a digital persona created by making an AR face-filter. The work had an interactive element which meant the filter could be used by anyone on the Instagram platform. I used face-filter to experiment with the idea of combining the mediums of technology and social media with performance art. I used the filter to make a video performance of the persona singing along to Roy Orbison’s 1961 crooner hit, Crying. The work was born from my research into the AI Android/ the Cyborg portrayed in films and media and the connection between this and feminist theory. Research including the work of Joanna Walshe’s, Girl Online, Donna Haraway’s, Cyborg manifesto, the works of poet Olivia Gatwood, And digital performance artist Molly Soda. The work reflected on girlhood and my own personal reclaiming of  the label,’Girl’. I started looking into Online teen culture and the curation of the “Safe Space”and “Bedroom Culture”, how that exists through social media. In particular the medium of the collage images referred to as “ mood-boards” shared on social media platforms like Instagram and Pinterest. Looking at how these groups of mostly teens were making, collecting and sharing pngs to create their expression of perfect life and the aspiration of how they wish to be seen. This open expression of emotions, aesthetic aspirations and search for identity is what pulled me to connect these spaces of the cyborg and the teen girl.

Old/New/Newer

Year 2019-2020

Projection Installation

In Machine We Trust- The Museum of Applied Arts-Austria.Virtual Sandbox- Die Angewandte Festival-Vienna. Gelnické Iluminácie Festival, Gelnica, Slovakia

Credits

 Interreg Slovakia-Austria VŠVU / Die Angewandte /MAK / SCD

Artist- Barbora Krejčová, Pavol Soukal
Lucy Carrick. Photography- Pavol Soukal, Andrea Hanatschek-MAK