2019
A project commissioned by UCL as part of Trellis, which matched artists with UCL researchers for projects around the East Bank development in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Lucy Harrison and researcher Efstathia Kostopoulou (Bartlett School of Architecture,...
2019
A project exploring sheds, shacks and shelters across Waltham Forest, focussing on community spaces built from mainly recycled materials and the way they are used by local allotment holders. The project included a 19 minute film and series of photographs, made in...
2017
Remembering the Docklands bomb: a collaboration with George Legg, exploring the legacy of the 1996 IRA bomb at South Quay, London. What are the unwritten memories of an explosion loaded with political significance? On 9 February 1996 the IRA detonated a 3,000...
2016
A project based in the Lea Bridge ward of Waltham Forest, developed in collaboration with local residents and businesses and marking the point of Lea Bridge station re-opening. The project was led by Lucy as part of Rendezvous Projects, funded by an Arts Development...
2016
Research project documenting the site and the people formerly employed at 97 Lea Bridge Road, London E10, a 1920s industrial estate demolished in 2017 to make way for the ‘Motion’ housing development. Some of the work was shown as part of Busy Lea Bridge...
2014
Home on High involved several months working on the Brownfield Estate in Poplar, and explored some of the different ways that local people relate to the place, its past, present and future. Lucy developed a body of work through a series of meetings, conversations and...
2013
Extended version of the short film which can be seen on the Carnaby Echoes website. A film about the building at 50 Carnaby Street, London W1, now a branch of Ben Sherman but previously a series of nightclubs including the Florence Mills Social Parlour (1930s),...
2013
Carnaby Echoes investigated the musical history of the Carnaby estate (Carnaby Street and the surrounding streets), over a 100-year period from the opening of Murray’s club in Beak Street in 1913. This history encompasses diverse musical styles, including jazz,...
2011
A series of outdoor projection events in Hackney Wick using local people’s chosen song lyrics, collected during a series of public music events. As part of the new landscape in the Olympic Park, the Olympic Delivery Authority commissioned a series of permanent...
2009
Saison Poetry Library Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, London Poetry Machines is a poem generator, using random selections of words taken from a collection put together as part of Lemn Sissay’s residency at the Southbank Centre. The project...
2007
Commission for Beacon 07, made in association with North Parade Social Club, Skegness, starring Russell Cartwright and David Peltell. Bingo calls were replaced with library book titles from the Lincolnshire Libraries Collection and made into a randomly selecting DVD....
2005
A video piece using the archive of appearances collected by Cathy Chamberlin, a ‘background artiste’ in film and television.
