Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker, book artist and installation artist working out of Magdalen Road Studios in Oxford (England). She has worked as a financial journalist, jewellery designer/maker, translator and teacher of French, German and art. She currently teaches art at John Mason School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Education:
2005 MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago
1997 PGCE, Modern Languages, Queens University of Belfast
1987 CNAA Postgraduate Diploma, Modern Chinese (Mandarin), Ealing College of Higher Education
1986 BA Hons Modern Languages, St. John's College, University of Oxford
Selected Exhibitions:
2010 06 Gallery, Abingdon, Hold On (installation)
Cowley Road Workshop, Oxford, Temptation (group show)
Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, Artweeks
2009 06 Gallery, Abingdon, Channel and Block (solo show)
St John's College, Oxford, BarnArt 2009 (group show)
2008 Owl and Lion Gallery, Edinburgh, Artists' Books Exhibition (group show)
O3 Gallery, Oxford, Tell me a Picture (group show) REVIEW
OVADA Gallery, Oxford, BID The Big Art Auction (in aid of Magdalen Road Studios)
2007 Vespine Gallery, Chicago, FireWorks (solo show)
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Another Story (group show)
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, Action/Interaction : Book/Art (in conjunction with book arts conference)
2006 Dorothea Theil Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois, After Words (group show)
2005 Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Signatures (MFA thesis show)
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Hooked Up (collaborative letterpress show)
Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, North Dakota, America 2000: Paper Works 2005 (group show)
2004 Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition (group show)
Residencies:
September 2008-July 2010 Artist in Residence, John Mason School, Abingdon
Collections:
Oxford Castle
Curated shows (co-curator):
St John's College, Oxford, Oxford 1977, an exhibition of photographs by Richard Brown (2009)
St John's College, Oxford, BarnArt 2009, juried mixed media group show
Artist Statement:
My work springs from the following concerns and ideas:
- The accumulation of memory through the imagery of geological sedimentation. The role of language in this process.
- Definitions of home and community, and the influence of landscape on identity.
- The containment of emotional processes so that they are visible but crystallised or fossilised.
- Tangible representations of how we now gather and filter information.
The media I use are handmade and reclaimed/recycled paper, traditional bookbinding materials, found objects, image transfer, various surface treatments and text.
