Lucie MacGregor (she/her) Artist and Facilitator
b. 1996, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and based in London
As a multidisciplinary Artist and Educator, my making harbours the synchronicities between found materials and the situations they are extracted from. Questioning binary-based conventions in art through multi-sensorial approaches, my making moves between sculpture, drawing and performance. Paper is recycled and reformed through these gestures; I am interested in transformative material processes and how we can ethically reuse natural resources in art making. Collaborative exchanges have enabled me to research and experiment with the evolution of paper into pulp; it’s ingredients, formation and colour is driven by each making cycle. Fusing together this recycled surface with framed structures, the pulp has been tiled, sculpted and embedded with found fragments, turning static drawings into a material that holds a collective archive. As a queer and neurodivergent Artist, I find the levels of visibility within paper pulping an empowering notion which I am motivated to share and research with others during workshop exchanges.
Recent exhibitions have include Paper Future Lab with Haus des Papiers, Berlin (2024), ‘Den!’ at Camden Art Centre, UK (2024) and a commissioned 3 metre sculpture made for the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary for the ‘Big Birthday Weekend’, UK (2024).
Curious of modes of translation through visual languages, considering what can be both lost and gained, I have recently received a Level 1 in British Sign Language and delivered community workshops with Newham libraries with D/deaf and BSL users as part of Newham Festival of Stories (2024). Co-facilitating workshops with vulnerable adults from Look Ahead sites and The Royal Academy of Arts, a recent sharing event at the gallery celebrated these sessions through a sculptural installation and matching zigzag zine gifted to the participants. Co-facilitating workshops at Camden Art Centre (2021 - present) with local young people with varied SEND communications, Den! was one of the many projects from these sessions that accumulated into an interactive exhibition that invited visitors to move between the gallery and the garden to explore themes of shelter, waste and abundance. As a socially engaged artist, I enjoy blurring the workshop format with methods of intervention in public spaces and reframe the industrial nature that I encounter as an artist based in a vastly-changing city.
I have recently been awarded with a DYCP grant from Arts Council England (2024). I studied on the BA Fine Art (Hons) at Central Saint Martins 2015 - 2019 and studied abroad at Pratt Institute in New York during the Spring - Summer Semester 2018. I completed a Foundation Diploma at Leeds College of Art 2014-2015.
Workshop facilitation at Camden Arts Centre exhibition ‘Machine? Machine!’
Co-faciliating intergenerational workshops at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 202
‘Pulped Pages’ a scrapbook making sessions as part of Presse Book Publishing Fair at Forma HQ, London 2023.