Lucy Skaer
Lucy Skaer (born 1975 in Cambridge, GB) studied at the Glasgow School of Art.
Lucy Skaer creates sculptures, films and drawings mainly based on photographs sourced from newspapers and books as well as pictures taken off the Internet, and assembles them in installations. The transformation of her found material into pictures and objects is an elaborate, often manual process that also involves the collaboration of craftsmen. What results is a push and pull between representation and the still recognizable meaning and physical shape of the original subject matter.
Skaer’s exhibitions follow different routes in subjecting the conventional classification of real objects to scrutiny and transferring them to the realm of imaginary images. Just as archaeology examines the buried remains of civilizations in order to find out more about the thoughts behind the things the humans create, Skaer’s work seeks to activate the power of the symbolic that lies beyond existing images.
Skaer also creates public interventions, involving potentially subtle and invisible interactions in public spaces and is a founding member of the artists' collaborative group Henry VIII's Wives.
In April 2009, Lucy Skaer was shortlisted for the most prestigious, and controversial, award in contemporary art, the Turner Prize.
Lucy Skaer creates sculptures, films and drawings mainly based on photographs sourced from newspapers and books as well as pictures taken off the Internet, and assembles them in installations. The transformation of her found material into pictures and objects is an elaborate, often manual process that also involves the collaboration of craftsmen. What results is a push and pull between representation and the still recognizable meaning and physical shape of the original subject matter.
Skaer’s exhibitions follow different routes in subjecting the conventional classification of real objects to scrutiny and transferring them to the realm of imaginary images. Just as archaeology examines the buried remains of civilizations in order to find out more about the thoughts behind the things the humans create, Skaer’s work seeks to activate the power of the symbolic that lies beyond existing images.
Skaer also creates public interventions, involving potentially subtle and invisible interactions in public spaces and is a founding member of the artists' collaborative group Henry VIII's Wives.
In April 2009, Lucy Skaer was shortlisted for the most prestigious, and controversial, award in contemporary art, the Turner Prize.