| Biography: | Anna Lucas is a London based artist. She
makes work that develops observations of
social networks and group dynamics in
response to specific geographic and
architectural locations.
Primarily known for her film and video
work, she is interested in the act of
making and viewing film as a means for
generating a simultaneous detachment
from, and engagement with everyday life.
Her films embrace and challenge
cinematic convention to create
contemplative work that operates between
documentary and fiction. The work often
develops through calculated chance and
Lucas uses her camera to heighten her
receptivity to the situations she finds
herself in.
Her recent films collectively named Here
and Your Here, shown at FACT, Liverpool
are based on complex themes connected to
plants and social networks in her local
markets in Brixton, South London. Two
new HDV single screen works track
unusual plants Kaff Mariam and Una de
Gato back to their origins in the
rainforest of Peru, and the deserts
around Jericho, Palestine and Sinai,
Egypt. Atlantic Botanic explored two
groups of people using plants in Brixton
markets and South London Botanical
Institute. Also made in 2007, Hunt and
Hide looked at communities of people
using long lenses in Portsmouth. It was
made for Aspex Gallery has subsequently
showed at Curzon Soho.
In 2003 her exhibition Adrift at
Chisenhale Gallery was filmed in
international port towns and focused on
travel, displacement and migration,
using Super 8 film and location sound to
evoke an uncertainty of time and place.
Paloma Ceffyl, a five screen video
series investigates the pastoral,
exploring the rural landscape as a site
of conflict between opposing desires to
control nature, or to live in harmony
with it. In 2003 she exhibited Trevety,
Flyover and Entre chien et loup whilst
Henry Moore Fellow at Spike Island Bristol.
Little White Feather and the Hunter is a
new single screen re-telling of the
story of Pocahontas based in Virginia
USA and Essex, UK. Supported by
Commissions East, this film will be
launched in Harwich Electric Cinema on
9th October 2008. Recent research
developing her ‘Blind movie drawings’ on
a Wellcome Trust Fellowship Ruskin
School of Drawing and Fine Art and the
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and
Genetics at Oxford University will
become a book to be launched in late
November 08. A fourteen year old
shepherd, a falconer hairdresser and a
young houndsman or 'whip' are the
subjects of focus for 16mm short film
Begail Foxwell Whip 2008 a simple
portrait of rural Welsh teenagers made
as a parallel piece to Seventh Heaven
2006 made in a Hackney school for boys.
| | | Source: | Anna Lucas' biography, created and sent from Anna Lucas. | | | Date of source: | 2008 |
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| | Principal Occupation: | Artist | | Gender: | Female | | Type: | person |
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