Artist
Lucy Whitford
Lucy Whitford is a multidisciplinary artist, with a focus on ceramics and sculptural installation. Lucy’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows since gaining her Masters in Fine Art with distinction from Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Lucy works from her home studio in South London. She has worked with clay for many years but has only recently begun to fire her work, giving it a newfound stability and enabling her to make vessel-like forms that tell human stories of fragility, strength, and tenderness.
"These works are intuitive pieces, informed by my years of study and a constantly evolving practice. Every piece is an exploration of clay and its materiality, but also of some aspect of ourselves. I try to capture moments, tell stories and evoke emotions that are both universal and deeply personal."
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May Drop 2024
"My latest collection with Partnership Editions takes inspiration from the concept of the Paradise Garden. The Paradise Garden is an enclosed place of contemplation, a retreat created using plants, fragrance, pools of water, movement, light and shade to evoke the sense of connection to an earthly paradise. The vessel-like sculptural works that come together in my latest collection explore aspects of the organic and constructed forms found in a Paradise Garden - moments, vignettes, poems told in sculptural form. " - Lucy Whitford, In the light and shade of an earthly Paradise
The Artist Open Call Collection 2023
“My debut collection with Partnership Editions ‘After the rain’ is inspired by the smell of petrichor, the scent released when rain hits dry earth. The scent of petrichor simultaneously grounds and transports us; connecting us to the earth, everything that has gone before and everything that is to come.
‘After the rain’ features vessel-like sculptures, each one with a distinctive presence of their own. They are personal explorations of the rich and complex materiality of clay, and the ancient connections that bind us to it. The organic forms found in my work are small studies of human relationships and movement: they are sculptural vignettes, moments, poems told through clay.” - Lucy Whitford, After The Rain
