luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com luciemacgregor Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:51:19 +0000 https://luciemacgregor.com en Home https://luciemacgregor.com/Home Wed, 19 May 2021 17:45:57 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Home <img width="1098" height="170" width_o="1098" height_o="170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a7e02e2f1ea206ea0fbb4ec5301c7d5c9ac9169e8dd92d98b4497fd5b4e1da5/Screen-Shot-2020-04-26-at-23.59.13.png" data-mid="108948212" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a7e02e2f1ea206ea0fbb4ec5301c7d5c9ac9169e8dd92d98b4497fd5b4e1da5/Screen-Shot-2020-04-26-at-23.59.13.png" /> <img width="270" height="232" width_o="270" height_o="232" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c857c76d2d378023f3dd2d488841298fbc024f06424dcd360736cbacd12a9f31/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-00.01.27-copy.jpg" data-mid="109348867" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/270/i/c857c76d2d378023f3dd2d488841298fbc024f06424dcd360736cbacd12a9f31/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-00.01.27-copy.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="757" width_o="3000" height_o="757" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8539ee61a77f29d98354cc669e7e196b0b63e2da3820b4a2178b3eadb4e0eb6/workshop-text-copy.jpg" data-mid="109348897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8539ee61a77f29d98354cc669e7e196b0b63e2da3820b4a2178b3eadb4e0eb6/workshop-text-copy.jpg" /> Rain break https://luciemacgregor.com/Rain-break Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:42:02 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Rain-break <img width="3307" height="2340" width_o="3307" height_o="2340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47df024a9a489f79c7a8f9a04bdec9e8931d5a61c59ae535d4cc4c4858cfd339/BROLLY-1_Page_2.jpg" data-mid="228419755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47df024a9a489f79c7a8f9a04bdec9e8931d5a61c59ae535d4cc4c4858cfd339/BROLLY-1_Page_2.jpg" /> Sketchbook pages from collaborative workshops with young people from Tuke School with South London Gallery, 2025 Rain break&nbsp; A four month-long project I designed and delivered with South London Gallery titled Rain Break (a poetic nod to the renewed cycle of workshops previously named ‘Cloud work’) invited SEND young people from Tuke School to consider rainwater as a immersive resource to collaborate with as a live material. Moving in tandem with the winter weather, we orchestrated flows of making both indoors in the gallery studio and outdoors in the garden. Water fused paper pulped surfaces and transformed&nbsp; broken umbrellas into temporary shields from the sun, waterproof microphones turned raindrops into beats to move to, vibrations to feel on toes and hands without turning wet. We tried to capture rain into colours, puddles, ponds and pictures. These poetic gestures were shared with many more of the disabled students at Tuke School in a final sharing event, umbrellas harboured paper rain and turned the schools hall into a flurry of performative rain embodied by sound, kinetic sculpture and gifted umbrellas which visually distributed these unique workshop happenings. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32ec3ca085e5fd198a893bf7dce4a2e5b9a8639ecc4d1e1e901c6253e4b3505c/IMG_2725.JPG" data-mid="228421724" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32ec3ca085e5fd198a893bf7dce4a2e5b9a8639ecc4d1e1e901c6253e4b3505c/IMG_2725.JPG" /> Painting with the rain <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a102c1c184382731a5335373837a65ad02f8d8dc2d14aecc70c2cd12dbd78fcf/rain.jpg" data-mid="228421718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a102c1c184382731a5335373837a65ad02f8d8dc2d14aecc70c2cd12dbd78fcf/rain.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64b7c3c8c783f30fe0a81385c0cf14be3d34741d848daabc9bbb59fec5b7fd34/paper.jpg" data-mid="228421717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64b7c3c8c783f30fe0a81385c0cf14be3d34741d848daabc9bbb59fec5b7fd34/paper.jpg" /> Paper ripping and sorting turned offcuts and waste into paper confetti. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a8bb87e10aaa592041682cda6754458e9a0c537693311806b340afb91794992/IMG_2649.JPG" data-mid="228421728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a8bb87e10aaa592041682cda6754458e9a0c537693311806b340afb91794992/IMG_2649.JPG" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2addfb011695f353a02e9bae324a64df7a1735918eb3f6c1ba68adc5d4e092c2/IMG_2669.JPG" data-mid="228421725" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2addfb011695f353a02e9bae324a64df7a1735918eb3f6c1ba68adc5d4e092c2/IMG_2669.JPG" /> Paper pulping <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6509732f1376ecbb94f57290e318e7a0745d71593e298fb5cc32f65aeb0ff760/IMG_2744.JPG" data-mid="228421727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6509732f1376ecbb94f57290e318e7a0745d71593e298fb5cc32f65aeb0ff760/IMG_2744.JPG" /> Dry paper pulp panels before they were added to the umbrella skeleton <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dd6e6ab6102aba6d3ba43a6dd2704cc5bc490ce751ca085759005d7c3019fd2/IMG_3063.JPG" data-mid="228421732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dd6e6ab6102aba6d3ba43a6dd2704cc5bc490ce751ca085759005d7c3019fd2/IMG_3063.JPG" /> The sculpture evolved over the course of the workshops, behaving almost like a sketchbook, with photographs from the earlier sessions being pulped and arranged back into the paper pulped panels.&nbsp; <img width="3307" height="2340" width_o="3307" height_o="2340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb331c04b3a6a737b4c4c9cec97033d8a4196a2f58d5b5b1b42bcbd6931dde4f/BROLLY-1_Page_1.jpg" data-mid="228422045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb331c04b3a6a737b4c4c9cec97033d8a4196a2f58d5b5b1b42bcbd6931dde4f/BROLLY-1_Page_1.jpg" /> Unexpected sketchbook collaborations, a piece of drawing adding onto the spine of the book by string, Theo’s wall work below is his independent making beyond the collective umbrella making but I also see it as expanded sketchbooking. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b00038d883825e8102c9f18bd8ef97b9d17bf225645d8f4bc69a1eed8e9875a1/Theos-workjpg.jpg" data-mid="228422162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b00038d883825e8102c9f18bd8ef97b9d17bf225645d8f4bc69a1eed8e9875a1/Theos-workjpg.jpg" /> <img width="3307" height="2340" width_o="3307" height_o="2340" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce2e1069dac76b5e6dbaa061fa01977283d743ae0e0bdb7472559cf34be58b09/BROLLY-1_Page_3.jpg" data-mid="228422048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce2e1069dac76b5e6dbaa061fa01977283d743ae0e0bdb7472559cf34be58b09/BROLLY-1_Page_3.jpg" /> Many streams of paper naturally returned to the sketchbook, the image iterations have been a fluid process to echo during these exchanges with the young people at the gallery. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f5064e7b8890bfc293310d2bd4b525de18f5e6f11e7f5b4b107caee0ed0565c/IMG_2754.jpg" data-mid="228421816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f5064e7b8890bfc293310d2bd4b525de18f5e6f11e7f5b4b107caee0ed0565c/IMG_2754.jpg" /> Our umbrella sculpture before many more additions of the rain paintings created by the group, which can be seen below. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fcc531c3f741e417650e584f7d8d5409ccfda6ed53a0085c52e5d0e37c0eed1/IMG_3110.JPG" data-mid="228422080" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fcc531c3f741e417650e584f7d8d5409ccfda6ed53a0085c52e5d0e37c0eed1/IMG_3110.JPG" /> Jayden finding out that the umbrella has a few holes in it... <img width="4349" height="4000" width_o="4349" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b820ad9910f16ce101e6ba91886eef2b3236d404cc2c9f239ee9aef86cdca2df/IMG_3116.JPG" data-mid="228421731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b820ad9910f16ce101e6ba91886eef2b3236d404cc2c9f239ee9aef86cdca2df/IMG_3116.JPG" /> Using the umbrella sculpture to shade us from the sun, after the rain break. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/550775a97bc1fa40fba641a7c89a92ff35e8cbd82795fdd693cd62f9c53e41b1/IMG_3100.JPG" data-mid="228422397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/550775a97bc1fa40fba641a7c89a92ff35e8cbd82795fdd693cd62f9c53e41b1/IMG_3100.JPG" /> We later returned one of our paper pulp sculptures back to pulp, recording the vibrational sounds of this happening with a hydrocontact microphone. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4302928afb6071e26c98e884c5c65dbaca4c604aa411b86a5ce88c80870eafe0/UMBRELLA.jpg" data-mid="247152852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4302928afb6071e26c98e884c5c65dbaca4c604aa411b86a5ce88c80870eafe0/UMBRELLA.jpg" /> At the end of the project, umbrellas became a visual archive of the sessions activity and gifted to those who were part of the project. Drawing connections https://luciemacgregor.com/Drawing-connections Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:40:35 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Drawing-connections <img width="2314" height="1653" width_o="2314" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94bdc9c477590aa95479db740efad0146f221bef46b32f9df46acf1c717b31c7/DRAWING-CONNECTIONS-9.jpg" data-mid="251765528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94bdc9c477590aa95479db740efad0146f221bef46b32f9df46acf1c717b31c7/DRAWING-CONNECTIONS-9.jpg" /> Drawing connections,&nbsp;2026Through Drawing Room’s Drawing Connections: Creative Labs programme 2026, developed in partnership with a Southwark neurodiversity family hub, I nurtured an ongoing creative relationship with families and young people through a monthly programme of shared making.<img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad12cfc43ecd960a5f22df23aea6dc7e3bbb8085769fedb6c53b9ff1295ed48e/IMG_7993.JPG" data-mid="251766974" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad12cfc43ecd960a5f22df23aea6dc7e3bbb8085769fedb6c53b9ff1295ed48e/IMG_7993.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="3006" height="4509" width_o="3006" height_o="4509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c33487717b97e60750389fc936627561a0babcf2552903f213ff22ce898eb667/IMG_8393.jpg" data-mid="251766969" border="0" data-scale="37" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c33487717b97e60750389fc936627561a0babcf2552903f213ff22ce898eb667/IMG_8393.jpg" /> The regularity of the sessions allowed trust and familiarity to grow, creating a learning studio that families could return to, inhabit and shape as their own. Rather than delivering fixed workshops, I created evolving “offers” that responded to participants’ interests, personalities and different ways of communicating. My approach began with paying attention beyond verbal conversation — noticing movement, sound, material curiosity and individual forms of expression — and allowing these to influence the direction of the work. <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/678af59b5a8ab02af29ec2ae7bb8d729c8483d1c143044203d0dc1beb791cc2f/IMG_8370.jpg" data-mid="251766972" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/678af59b5a8ab02af29ec2ae7bb8d729c8483d1c143044203d0dc1beb791cc2f/IMG_8370.jpg" /> <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a364aa206b9e1ec65d5d26ec7edce290d05db6c9ad53e9ed8c366827ca130742/W111.jpg" data-mid="251766965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a364aa206b9e1ec65d5d26ec7edce290d05db6c9ad53e9ed8c366827ca130742/W111.jpg" />Across the programme, sculpture become a way of exploring connection and exchange. Conversations around music and analogue technologies led to the creation of a “disco room”, where dancing became a form of drawing. We have also recorded the sounds generated through making — from paper pulping to the embodied actions of handling and transforming materials — exploring sculpture as a sonic experience as well as a visual one. These recordings have became a soundscape for future sessions, while the tactile process of using handheld analogue technology created moments of connection between generations within the space. <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5982ea51b2796e8901e7a39614dac207443d7eed9761153ee0b11266a0ebfa17/IMG_8084.JPG" data-mid="251766973" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5982ea51b2796e8901e7a39614dac207443d7eed9761153ee0b11266a0ebfa17/IMG_8084.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0af5f01139bf6e0517b47fdb895b29b1264ed9625858adbf0c588514fde8387/IMG_8383.jpg" data-mid="251766968" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0af5f01139bf6e0517b47fdb895b29b1264ed9625858adbf0c588514fde8387/IMG_8383.jpg" /> Grammar of Animacy https://luciemacgregor.com/Grammar-of-Animacy Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:43:34 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Grammar-of-Animacy <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ee443b0fbc009bce2788e118ff4c8541d14cc7ea07762516baceae72b66eaa1/Yellow-zebras-2.jpg" data-mid="247152892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ee443b0fbc009bce2788e118ff4c8541d14cc7ea07762516baceae72b66eaa1/Yellow-zebras-2.jpg" /> Yellow zebras, 2025 Singing steps https://luciemacgregor.com/Singing-steps Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:47:54 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Singing-steps &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3744" height="5616" width_o="3744" height_o="5616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5b5564544be368a6498a934169c03e11e461e2e1026a749eb1e533693e297a4/Silo.jpg" data-mid="241235809" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5b5564544be368a6498a934169c03e11e461e2e1026a749eb1e533693e297a4/Silo.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Sheepish steps &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa5abe997120524129def473159f73f267290b21e54a821875c8f20ad1e6f899/LADDER.jpg" data-mid="241235807" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa5abe997120524129def473159f73f267290b21e54a821875c8f20ad1e6f899/LADDER.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sunken steps &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1526" height="2696" width_o="1526" height_o="2696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6868d5f9cd9eb8e962ef74534db937a5b1f6a5a72c72f001a54b4f31771cbfbb/screaming-steps.jpg" data-mid="242322923" border="0" data-scale="54" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6868d5f9cd9eb8e962ef74534db937a5b1f6a5a72c72f001a54b4f31771cbfbb/screaming-steps.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Screaming steps Installed in various location in Seydisfjordur, ‘Screaming steps’ is a video work that documents the growing paper ladder sculpture that elongated to 9 metres in length. Intersecting the ‘gaps’ found in everyday environments to get closer to unreachable peripheries, over 20 people installed this collapsing sculpture to reach a disused staircase at the top of a cliff face. Unable to hold the weight of a person, the sculpture performed as an unusable ladder, echoing the metal one waiting above. Neither bird nor fish https://luciemacgregor.com/Neither-bird-nor-fish Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:35:10 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Neither-bird-nor-fish <img width="3006" height="4509" width_o="3006" height_o="4509" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/539dc5ca7893f72f7ec0feec3491aa513f39a605e399085da93466fc61a1076f/IMG_6570.jpg" data-mid="242327883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/539dc5ca7893f72f7ec0feec3491aa513f39a605e399085da93466fc61a1076f/IMG_6570.jpg" /> Neither bird nor fish, 2025 Rust, broken bike part, black sand, spray paint, icelandic book pages, donated drawings, electrical wire180 x&nbsp;128 x&nbsp;3 cm Neither bird nor fish held in tension with fishing hooks let both front and back be visible A hovering drawing selected instances of a nice thing found within someone else’s forgotten their throwaway in a few choices to be cut out and invited to remain It behaves like a page a reversible side I am the only person here sat in the creaks of the first day of the final month in the year it is a calming feeling one of solstice with the self without the sun the spring next year will feel different The snow that I know as sleet Hjarn is its name here Hjarn cries down the window glass in an animated display like a game of tetris minus a computer pixel instead here as ice we get close to the blue hour Washing machine https://luciemacgregor.com/Washing-machine Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:51:19 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Washing-machine <img width="2592" height="1728" width_o="2592" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a721af12ef6ab6087ddba95373492b62055fc57e49b3ef5293deb01f2739c628/IMG_8627.JPG" data-mid="251765995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a721af12ef6ab6087ddba95373492b62055fc57e49b3ef5293deb01f2739c628/IMG_8627.JPG" /> Washing Machine, 2026 iBug Festival, Riesa, GermanyCreated from found materials at an old animal feed factory site in East Germany. Sometimes standing, sometimes falling https://luciemacgregor.com/Sometimes-standing-sometimes-falling Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:13:03 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Sometimes-standing-sometimes-falling <img width="3694" height="5847" width_o="3694" height_o="5847" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d22ab77866616f47f98fe741bd4fb39f682fd26d5a2e155cb2399192195f62c5/wide.jpg" data-mid="240103776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d22ab77866616f47f98fe741bd4fb39f682fd26d5a2e155cb2399192195f62c5/wide.jpg" /> Sometimes standing sometimes falling, 2025Found metal, wooden roofing,mixed media in paper pulp, rust, broken shoe sole120 x 170 x 60 cm Exhibited in&nbsp;Four stones, a secret, a spiral, The Netty (Fish Factory), Seydisfjordur, Iceland, October 2025. <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db0794348409645450cb39af67106cadb8f6fb2d6b380d07606dd0fc6d094e32/rust.jpg" data-mid="241138602" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db0794348409645450cb39af67106cadb8f6fb2d6b380d07606dd0fc6d094e32/rust.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3289" height="4934" width_o="3289" height_o="4934" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8fcb5476b5f846098b4042a8a2d2efeef1dee4cbbb9f5b3549edba4c602fc9b/Back-detail.jpg" data-mid="241138604" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8fcb5476b5f846098b4042a8a2d2efeef1dee4cbbb9f5b3549edba4c602fc9b/Back-detail.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bring together an accumulation of found things, made things, all existing in this one symbiotic happening. ‘Sometimes standing sometimes falling’ is the statement that departs another on its first reception, this skeleton and sculpture that seems to do both. ‘It’s perfectly contaminated’, ’It is like a puppet’ ‘An abject scream’ These could easily be its title too This spine of rusted metal was passed into my hands during my first days of being in Seydisfjordur, a town in North East Iceland. Passed to me in the dark of an empty silo, I didn’t know initially what the metal structure was but it asserted me as something also standing and in similar dimensions to myself. I didn’t receive it visually but initially as a weight, an oily scent, a clang of its feet hitting the silo surface below and it’s gaps that my own limbs could hold and hang onto. I went back to the silo a few days later to seek out this invisible rusted thing I only knew as a touch, a smell, a sound. I felt like a dog sniffing for food, a land-walking sea creature with sound waves for speech but I didn’t know what to call out. I eventually found the pincher-shaped metal when my eyes adjusted to the dark silo space, it was sleeping under a pipe in the centre of the silo. I let it gape out the same clangs and metallic creaks on our first meeting, just to confirm it was the same piece of metal I was seeking. I walked back with it clamped upon my shoulder, my lime green coat becoming stained with the rust that still remains on in despite me washing it three times since. Me and that metal creature sat for many days together in the studio that I had once at the edge of the fjord. As did the other objects that joined us, the shoe sole without its shoe, a piece of rusted drain covering, black sand from nearby beaches, broken roofing from who knows which roof, handwritten notes, an unwanted painting, scrapped drawings and donated paper waste. ‘An abject scream’ can an object, object in becoming an object when it doesn’t want to be seen? All of these objects, the crunchy surfaces, forgotten fragments I spotted in the street, this scalped column of wall, of roof, or shed maybe. Does this wood-grained slither object from being a tree? An interior, an exterior from an interior, what does it have to say about being suffocated by a sponge, compressed and forced into flatness only to be pushed out again as an echo of what it was before and what about this whisper that it might now be a sculpture? Was the tree not the very same just untitled with its outdoor name, its birth name, what would it be called in its teenage years? A plank of wood, smooth laminate flooring. I think a bird box could be between it’s forties and early retirement. ‘An abject scream’ a friend gave me this response to my new sculpture ‘sometimes standing sometimes falling’ I like these readings, they feel close to the way the word ‘guttural’ sounds, very much a gut sound and a gut feeling. I just learnt ‘abject’ means to be present in the maximum, its the perfect word. Maybe the sculpture feels at its maximum before it or during the flight of a scream. I am abject to this road that I walk down, maybe one I’ve considered less due to its humbler water trickles rather than the roars from Gufu the waterfall up the road. This road and its industrial-ness, considered ugly most probably by most but I’m fond of it as an aesthetic because of my industrial green-filled hometown. The staggered green stripes of a piece of rope I kept seeing on this road, sure one day I would pick it up to place into paper pulp. The day I decide to I go to it and its vacuum-packed into the tarmac of the ground, encased in ice, my fingers can’t get to it. So I can only walk away and forget about it until the day I find it sat quietly in the studio, as if it had decided to walk over itself and say, yes now you can have me. Patience and persistence for this dear paper pulp, ah how I am constantly reminded of it. All magnificent and maximum to me and my eyes and what they can hold and my mind unbuffered by the mossy-ness that keeps going and showing me new landscapes to enter without having to knock at a door. I go straight in. Pulp paintings https://luciemacgregor.com/Pulp-paintings Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:04:37 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Pulp-paintings <img width="3456" height="5126" width_o="3456" height_o="5126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67e704a1efacedcbe0e76aae2e5cea53eef7c3a8a33b8c95c9e121a71fd4348f/I-can-see-now--2025--Paper-pulp--.jpg" data-mid="235267956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67e704a1efacedcbe0e76aae2e5cea53eef7c3a8a33b8c95c9e121a71fd4348f/I-can-see-now--2025--Paper-pulp--.jpg" /> I can see now, 2025 Mixed media in paper pulp 170 x 100 x 6 cmCurious of how material abundance contemplates within gaps and through surfaces that break; paper, metal, tarmac and clay have been translated into this hybrid material surface that contaminate, fuse and collapse together. Paper waste is a transformative vehicle that is collaboratively collected and transformed; collective contributions of notes, sketches, letters and analogue communications, fuse with street-found debris, industrial waste, hovering drawings and pulped pools of colour. 'I can see now' was formed from many material cycles in which paper and water turned thrown away words into liquid, drawings into unregonisble pulp and forgotten fragments into fossils. <img width="1659" height="2319" width_o="1659" height_o="2319" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5b269166439eeae05d52ff4bee613e1a6319db60310e71054b6cf26cff61966/I-can-see-now-pg4-with-carbon-marks.jpg" data-mid="235268034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5b269166439eeae05d52ff4bee613e1a6319db60310e71054b6cf26cff61966/I-can-see-now-pg4-with-carbon-marks.jpg" /> Collage responses to I can see now, 2025 Collage and carbon print drawings on paper 29.7 x 21 cm <img width="3482" height="4680" width_o="3482" height_o="4680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22f279a5578ad6fc295e34044da5dd6cd665847d362ba3958916defb61fe5198/I-can-see-now-pg2.jpg" data-mid="235268037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22f279a5578ad6fc295e34044da5dd6cd665847d362ba3958916defb61fe5198/I-can-see-now-pg2.jpg" /> <img width="3777" height="5065" width_o="3777" height_o="5065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e5ec67ef8e55a9e51f228b846d86b87f23034a25eaef046d0478bf84e42b790/I-can-see-now-pg-1.jpg" data-mid="235268041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e5ec67ef8e55a9e51f228b846d86b87f23034a25eaef046d0478bf84e42b790/I-can-see-now-pg-1.jpg" /> Flat share https://luciemacgregor.com/Flat-share Sat, 26 Jul 2025 20:16:09 +0000 luciemacgregor https://luciemacgregor.com/Flat-share <img width="3375" height="4886" width_o="3375" height_o="4886" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f3b78de443adbd98bf469ccd6a8c0e76e331d4303a3807d6e08e90fa96a8532/Flat-share.jpg" data-mid="236292882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f3b78de443adbd98bf469ccd6a8c0e76e331d4303a3807d6e08e90fa96a8532/Flat-share.jpg" /> Flat share, 2025 Collage in paper pulp, keyrings, old flat keys210 x 90 x 8 cm A paper-pulp work I showed in ‘Strange clouds’ an exhibition curated by @katetookaphoto at hArts Lane in South London.The shape of these pieces of large recycled paper came to me in a dream, perhaps an echo of the many small churches I saw dotted around the mountains of Tinos in October last year. Each key on the metallic chain that cuts through the two sheets of paper represents all the many places I’ve lived in London over the years, FLAT in its nature the paper is SHARED separated and remade. Old drawings dance along the embossed surfaces with hardly-there shapes holding a moment for pause, receipts bleed into the purple of the pulp and the forms float upon the brick wall of an old horse stable (now an exhibition space).&nbsp; <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc3a5911bd4b18f4f55b5a8c7fc65c231387d735a37db7d46fa430d865966c69/Detail.jpg" data-mid="236292937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc3a5911bd4b18f4f55b5a8c7fc65c231387d735a37db7d46fa430d865966c69/Detail.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc7625e809bacc2339805d3a52938fddd3c5542f0afac217c2729703cb6bdced/IMG_4864.jpg" data-mid="236292942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc7625e809bacc2339805d3a52938fddd3c5542f0afac217c2729703cb6bdced/IMG_4864.jpg" />