Lucie Winterson lives and works in east London. She works from her studio in Hackney and in the landscape.
She is currently researching for her PhD: “Navigating nature/human relations in the ecological crisis through art practice”, at the University of the Arts, London. She has a special focus on immersive encounters and poetic engagement with the natural world: “To imagine a space of mutuality where the human and more than human world entangle and express themselves in a myriad of ways including the poetic”
Her work is concerned with reconfiguring our links to the vegetal, the world itself and the life force of trees and plants. The intent is to re-imagine ways to engage with Nature (human and more than human) in the context of what is now being described as the era of the Symbiocene, the trend away from the ecocidal to the symbiotic.
Solo Shows
2017 ‘Into the Amazon’, Solo Show, Eastway Studios, London
2015 Residency Show, The Cabin at Bucks Mills, Devon.
2011 ‘Modern Nature’, Guildhall Chambers, Bristol,
2010 Solo Show, Hammerson’s Artist Initiative,
Threadneedle Street, London
1991 Solo Show, Knapp Gallery, London,
1990 Solo Show, Higherwater Gallery, London
1989 Solo Show, Christie’s College, London
Group Shows (selected)
2022 ‘Glimpsing the Indefinable’
Aleph Contemporary, London. Three person show
2019 ‘Mercator: Projections and Distortions in discovery.’
PhD Research Exhibition, Triangle Space, Chelsea UAL
2019 ‘Thames Narratives’ Menier Gallery, London four person show
2017 In the Open, exhibition and Land2 symposia in conjunction with
ASLE-UK(I) conference. Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield.
2015/16 ‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers Gallery, London.
2014/15 ‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers Gallery, New York.
2013 Colours of Stokey, Art Walk, Stoke Newington, London
2012 Hackney Wicked, Eastway Studio show
’Paper Nautilus’ Paper Nautilus Press, West Hampstead
‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers Gallery, London.
2011 ‘i know a place’, Flowers East London,6 person show
2009 ‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London
‘Mary Wollstonecraft, Mother of Feminism’
Newington Green Church, London
2008 ‘00 Nature’, Contemporary Arts Projects Hoxton, London
’For the Time Being,’ Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis, 3 person
2007 ‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London
2006 ’30 x 30’ Vertigo Gallery, London
2004 ‘Land & Light’ Wingfield Arts, Suffolk,
1993 ‘Young British Artists’, Neal Street Gallery, London
1990 ‘Ways of Telling’ Oriel Mostyn. Llandudno, Wales
1989 Christopher Hull Gallery, London
Residencies
2015/16 TRELEX Residency Amazon, Tambopata Research Centre,
Peruvian Rainforest
2015 Appledore Arts and National Trust:
The Cabin at Bucks Mills, Atlantic Coast, Devon.
2005 Arsinvita Gallery, Munich, Led Land Art Project. Bavarian Alps
1991/92 British Council Scholarship and Residency,
Krakow School of Art, Poland
1990 The Monastery Residency, Prilep, North Macedonia
Conferences and Papers
2021 Paper: “Art practice as research within the Natural Environment,
navigating nature/human relations in the ecological crisis.”
University of the Arts, London
2019 Paper: “Tree” Contemporary written and visual responses
to the symbiotic real. University of the Arts, London
2014 Paper: “John Clare in Land, Poetics in Painting”
Symposium “Land and its intimate parts” The Mothership, Dorset.
2014 Conference “John Clare in Space”,
Paper: “Doubling Light, John Clare and the layering of vision in
my painting.” Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Teaching
2020 “Ideas through Watercolour”, online continuous
-current
1998 “Inspired by Land and Landscape” and “Creative Watercolour”
– 2020 Mary Ward Adult Education, London.
1998 “Modern Watercolour” and “Land Art”, UK, Belgium and Germany.
-2004
1998 Life Drawing, RADA, London
-2002
Education
2018
-current University of the Arts London, CCW practice based PhD.
1991/2 European MA, Winchester Art School in Barcelona MA Fine Art
1980-83 Central St Martins, London BA Fine Art
2014/15 Flowers Gallery, New York. ‘Small is Beautiful’.
2014 ‘Land and its intimate parts’. to workshop ideas and collaborations.