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
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...
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...
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...
2013
Residency at Archway Library, London, between September 2012 and January 2013, part of Hostings / A Million Minutes. Two newspapers and an audio tour of the library, read by a member of library staff, were launched at the end of the project. A Million Minutes was an...
2008
Commission for Art on the Underground at Stratford station, the project involved producing 3 issues of a free newspaper, collated from local people’s contributions following the announcement of the London Olympics coming to Stratford. The newspapers were given...
2007
A public art project, part of ‘Art U Need; An Outdoor Revolution’, curated by Bob & Roberta Smith and included in the book ‘Art U Need- My Part in the Public Art Revolution’, published by Black Dog 2007. Canvey Guides archived website can...
2005
Residency at the former asylum on San Servolo, Venice during August and September 2005. Exhibition of work ‘La Cheba Dei Mati’ in October 2005, curated by Irene Calderoni. The work included the book ‘Entrata’. Images below from San Servolo...
