About
Lucy is an artist working across film, moving image and participatory practice. Her work explores how human and more-than-human relations are shaped through movement, imagination and ecology.
Originally trained in theatre and dance, she began her career in live art and site-responsive performance before expanding into moving image. She was an associate artist with Goat Island (2001–2009), collaborating with director Lin Hixson to develop a series of S16mm films screened internationally, and later collected in a DVD publication held in university and institutional collections worldwide.
Her practice has expanded into curatorial and socially engaged forms, including the co-curation of What if… (2010) and What Matters (2012) at Siobhan Davies Studios and collaborative projects with organisations including Whitechapel Gallery, Nomad Projects, Dance Umbrella and the Foundling Museum.
Her work has been presented internationally at venues including HZT and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Zahoor ul Akhlaq Gallery (Lahore), CID au Grand Hornu (Belgium), Bonington Gallery (Nottingham), Tramway (Glasgow), and in London at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery and the Natural History Museum and on BBC 2 and Channel4. In 2025 she joined the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, as a resident artist.
Artist Statement
Can soil show us a more tender way to live?What kind of dance is a library?How do horses make time?
My work begins with small acts of attention, observation and encounter.
Working across film, installation, writing and participatory forms, I explore how people, places, materials and other forms of life become entangled through movement, perception and ecological relations.
I often approach film as a choreographic practice: a way of sensing, following and composing relations rather than documenting them. This includes exploring time as fluid and subjective, experienced through attention, rhythm and relation.
Many of my projects emerge through extended periods of looking, listening and spending time with particular environments. I am drawn to moments that are easily overlooked: subtle gestures, peripheral movements, traces of interdependence and the ways attention shapes what becomes visible. Through moving image, collaborative processes and curatorial forms, I explore how environments choreograph ways of seeing, sensing and relating.
Underlying this work is a curiosity about how attention shapes what and who we notice, and how different ways of looking, listening and relating might reveal our entanglement with the worlds we inhabit - both seen and unseen.
Interviews
improvisation and filmmaking interview: www.improfilmclub.com/podcast
HZT Berlin Open lecture: vimeo.com/114796402
Whitechapel Artists in Residence interview: vimeo.com/76974193
Dance-tech TV interview: dance-tech.tv/videos/what-matters-festival-2012-becky-edmunds-lucy-cash-london-uk/
