‘If We Were Clouds I’d Jump On You’ 90cm x 90cm, acrylic on canvas,2009
Genre:
2D: Painting.
Artist statement
My work explores, the relationship between a child’s mark making and abstraction, and the friction between the freedom of childhood expression and the process of reproduction by a trained artist.
I reproduce my daughters’ drawings by tracing, enlarging and repeating their spontaneous scribbles and gestures into oil and acrylic paintings and colour pencil drawings. I make a series of decisions about quality of lines, colour, rules learned through years of looking at and making art, to create carefully balanced compositions. Through my paintings and drawings, I aim to unite high art, popular culture and the natural urge to mark make.
Contact details:
email – lucysoni@gmail.com
website of gallery that represents me in New York – www.voltzclarke.com
CV:
1994 – 1997 Chelsea College of Art and Design
B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art.
Exhibitions:
2009, June Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, London
2009, Feb Line and Colour, The Art Works Galleries, Newcastle
2008, June Front Window, Camberwell Arts Week, London
2006, April London Bridges, presented by Blair Clarke,
Virgil DeVoldere Gallery, New York, USA
2002, May Gatsby, The New Lansdowne Club, London
2001, Sept Handful of Showoffs, Marle Place Gallery, Kent
1999, August Articulture, Southbank, London.
1997, June Text In Art, The Poetry Cafe, London
1996, June King Sturge, Davis Street Gallery, London
1996, March “Blanc”, Putney Exchange, London
1995, June Outpost, Venice Biennale
Project work:
2009, Aug ‘My Space’, site specific painting at South London Cultural Centre, London
2009, June Front Window, conceived and organised by Lucy Soni and Sophie Eade, for Camberwell Arts Festival, London
2008 Consequences at Spartacus Chewynd’s Helmut Newton Ladies Night.
Part of Event Horizon at the Royal Academy of Art, London
2004 – 2009 Assisted on prop-making and participated in performances for Spartacus Chetwynd, including Hermitos Children, Altermodern, Tate Britain, 2009. The Snail Race, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan 2008 Delirious, Serpentine Pavilion 2006. The Fall of Man, Tate Triennial, 2006. Becks Futures, ICA, 2005. Born Free, Gasworks, 2004.
2007 Commission for The Children’s Trust Tadworth
Further examples of work:
“You, me,Us” 3 canvases each 12″x12″,acrylic on canvas,2009
The Chase, 60″ x 78″, oil on canvas,2003
Very nice work
Really interesting process too.