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Dr Lucy Lyons


Foundation

Drawing research


My work explores the notion of observing and understanding the world through the activity and processes involved in making. Over the last five years I have focused on drawing practice. My PhD research has been concerned with understanding a disease through the activity of drawing it.

2009 Awarded MMAA (Member Medical Artists’ Association of Great Britain)

2008 PhD - Sheffield Hallam University
2000 MA Fine Art - City & Guilds of London Art School
1992 BA (Hons) Graphic Design - Norwich School of Art
1989 Diploma Foundation Art & Design - Middlesex Polytechnic

Awards and residencies

Short listed for the Jessica Wilkes Award
Recipient of the British Council Darwin Now Award
Artist in Residence Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon


Exhibitions and publications:

Group exhibitions include shows at Blink Gallery, Will’s Art Warehouse, The Coningsby Gallery and The Paul Hawkins Gallery. I co-curated a display of drawings from the Tate Archives at Tate Britain’s With a Single Mark: The Models and Practice of Drawing symposium. My solo exhibition Delineating Disease is at The Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons of England in September 2008

Publications and papers include:
2008 ‘Delineating Disease’, article in The Bulletin for the Royal College of Pathologists,
2007 ‘Walls Are Not My Friends’, article in Working Papers in Art & Design (ISSN 1456-4917)
2006 ‘Visual Thinking: Can Drawing Contribute Knowledge to Medicine?’ paper presented at the Design Research Society’s International conference, Wonderground, Lisbon
2005 ‘Dequantification’ refereed participation at MIT’s Image and Meaning 2 at Getty Centre Los Angeles.


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Further information
Royal College of Surgeons