Our blue sky — luciemacgregor

Our blue sky, 2024
Paper pulp, found wooden window frame, glass

An unexpected homage to ‘My Blue Sky’ (1989-2003) an artwork made by Louise Bourgeois, made from an identical found window. Rather than painted red rolling hills, ‘Our blue sky’ cradles together broken glass, fragments of fallen posters and the slither of a public notice from a lamp post. The artist book below holds these connections close between pages of scrap paper.

Our blue sky, 2025
Ink and crayon on paper, envelopes

A series inspired and in hommage with Louise Bourgeois, ‘My Blue Sky’, 1989-2003. The artist book above holds reflections, writings, images and pockets of different views that these artworks hold.

Between January 2023 - August 2025 I facilitated weekly art sessions with young children in Lewisham with AFRIL, a charity that supports refugee families living in London. We explored inventive ways of creating paint from kitchen spices, sketchbooks from recycled paper and sculptures from local market donations. These recurring sessions were a brilliant exchange to guide young people to make art in expressive and sensorially responsive ways connected to their personal geographies, affirming arts education through relatable and accessible methods that could be returned to and not limited by cost, space or resources.

Our colourful sky, 2025

(Above) a group response to Louise Bourgeois’s ‘My blue sky’ an artwork I also responded in my studio making whilst it was being exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery. This path of multiple references provided multiple entry points for the children to question, resonate and remember within. I see the studio as a space to gather cycles of connected happening within, to make large-scaled artworks and experience this excitement with others.

My grey sky, 2025
Paper pulp, found metal window frame, perspex