2022
A project documenting the 10 year history of The Mill in Walthamstow, through the stories of the people who were involved from the days when the building was a library, through the campaign against its closure, and the setting up of the well loved community resource...
2020
‘Lightboxes and Lettering’ was a major project focussing on the pre-digital era of printing in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Clerkenwell, and the experiences of people involved in the industry. Lucy Harrison led the project with Rosa Ainley as part...
2019
Linear Park: Plot Lines was a collaboration between Lucy Harrison and Matter Architecture, commissioned by Waltham Forest Council as part of Making Places. The project, which was completed in 2019, traced the boundary lines of houses that were formerly on the site,...
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
A project exploring the Warner Estate in Waltham Forest through photography, oral history and archive research, started in 2014 with Katherine Green and extended in 2016 and 2017 with an exhibition at Vestry House Museum, a mobile phone app walking tour, series of...
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...
2017
Exploring memories of Hampton Square, the housing that was once on the site of the Sheen Lane Centre, and of the Watneys Brewery building that is now being converted into flats. Two wall panels have been installed in the entrance to the Sheen Lane Centre, which houses...
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
Exploring work, industry and routine in Cambridge CB1 during 2015 and 2016. A project exploring the changing nature of the area near Cambridge station; from one based around heavy industries and the railway, now becoming more residential and providing homes for people...
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
Good Company was a project investigating independent businesses in Ilford, past and present, and how they have contributed to the social and cultural life of the town. Lucy collected stories, images and ephemera related to shops, pubs, nightclubs and other local...
