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 begins by pushing and pulling at words, exploring their material presence as tiny splinters of meaning which under pressure shift from the familiar to something stranger. Through acts of attention, observation and encounter the work then moves between performance, fiction and forms of speculative storytelling inviting a sensorial, embodied experience. I’m drawn to moments where the boundaries between these modes become uncertain and produce something unexpected - when a body seems to know something before the mind does.
How does time accumulate? How can a gesture carry centuries of practice; a house hold generations of relationships; a piece of stone history far older than the people who live beside it? Beginning with something ordinary and familiar, I create interruptions and shifts of rhythm that makes other temporalities perceptible.
I’m interested in cinema as a way of making these latent worlds felt rather than explained. I invite image and sound to retain some mystery—to allow different ways of knowing and forms of life to exist alongside one another mirroring the ways in which people, places and materials become entangled through movement, perception and ecological relations.
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/
