2016
A Borough Road Gallery Commission Part of “Keep the Paint Moving”: David Bomberg and the Art of Radical Teaching Lucy Harrison is comparing David Bomberg’s teaching methods with the ways in which students and staff at LSBU feel about their own education,...
2016
Lucy Harrison was the 2016 Artist in Residence for the duration of ‘The Art of War’; the WW1 Recruitment Poster exhibition at Hackney Museum, and the Conscientious Objector exhibition at Hackney Archives. Lucy produced her own series of posters, which...
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...
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...
2014
A continuing project exploring the Warner Estate in Waltham Forest. Lucy Harrison and Katherine Green collaborated on the first stage of the project, which captured previously unrecorded local history through photography and oral histories. The second stage of...
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,...
2013
A Club Collection was a project commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation to celebrate the opening of Timberlodge, a new community hub in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park which opened in the summer of 2013. The project acted as an introduction between...
2012
A collection of homages to Dr Feelgood as part of Thames Delta, Focal Point Gallery, Southend. As part of the exhibition ‘Thames Delta’ at Focal Point Gallery in Southend, artist Lucy Harrison invited Dr Feelgood fans to contribute their homages to the band,...
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...
2011
Residency in Leysdown-on-sea, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, commissioned by Art at the Centre, Swale. A series of silkscreen posters were displayed around Leysdown in May 2011, inspired by conversations with local people. Also, a Leysdown-themed pub quiz was organised in...
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...
