| 词条 | Draft:Lucy Burscough |
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Artist and Arts for Health Practitioner Lucy Burscough (born 7th September 1971) was the youngest of eight children to her parents, Margaret and Frank Burscough. She studied Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University 1990 -1994. She now lives and works in Greater Manchester. Since 2000, she has shared her life with her partner, Charlie ‘Gee’ Davies and they have a son, Alfred Aneurin Davies known to all as ‘Alfie’. Her portraiture Lucy developed her portrait painting through her interest in how the families, backgrounds, histories and experiences of the people she paints shape the figure they are at the moment of sitting for her. Her scrupulous style of painting shows her love of the actual flesh and how the blood pumping behind the skin creates an abundant range of colours and tones. By making each painting a minute enquiry of a person’s physical being, Lucy believes she finds unexpected beauty and emphasises this aspect of her work by painting her subjects in what might be considered unflattering poses. (The Lady with the Pearl Earrings Acrylic on canvas,2014) Art and Mental Health In recent years she has developed an interest in the delivery of art practice as a means to promote good mental health and her painting has become a performance as she works in the public spaces of hospitals. The narrative themes of her Arts for Health Projects explore elements of biomedical science, offering learning experiences to her viewers as they discuss the ideas and processes behind her work. The artist seeks to provide well-being benefits to both patients and staff by reducing stress, combating boredom and offering unexpected learning opportunities proven to promote good mental health Arts for Health Projects The CurARTive Collection (2015) was created when artist’s studios appeared in public places in hospitals where patients waited for appointments and treatments. Within the painted image, Lucy brings individual patients together with the natural materials from which their particular treatments have been derived such as lutein found in kale. Atomic structures of pharmaceutical compounds are hidden in the paintings. Some paintings tell obscure stories of the heroic discovery of medications. In revealing these stories, the artist hoped to leave patients feeling more warmly towards their treatment and less anxious about “putting chemicals in my body”. (Left John, Kale and Lutein,2015 John has Age-Related Macular Degeneration which affects his vision. He is painted here with curly kale. You can see the atomic structure of lutein hiding among the kale leaves.) Look 200 (2015) was a year-long Arts Council England funded residency at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital where Burscough painted in pop-up studios in the public areas where patients and medical staff could watch the work in progress and converse with artist herself about the scientific research into vision from which the patients were benefitting and that the staff were implementing. Ocular Bionica (2016) was undertaken in the Vision Regeneration laboratories at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in partnership with Professor Stanga and his team. Burscough illustrated the story of patients who had lost their central vision taking part in clinical trials to test new technologies. She attempted to see the world through the eyes of one of the participants, by painting a stop-frame animated film. “I realised that if I wanted to show people what seeing with macular degeneration and the ‘Bionic eye’ was like, I would need more than a static painting…to help viewers understand AMD and this amazing technology, but also might encourage more people to consider taking part in clinical trials just as Ray, the subject of this film, did.” Both CurARTive and Look 200 collections are on display in the atrium of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. Facing Out (2017/18) is a residency at Maggie’s Centre, Manchester. The centre provides support for people with cancer and their families. Lucy began by organising arts and crafts opportunities for patients and others so they could experience the benefits to well-being that creating together can bring. She is now working on a series of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers. This collection will be exhibited in the Whitworth Art Gallery early in 2019. References_________________________________________________________ http://www.lucysart.co.uk/artistsstatement http://www.lucysart.co.uk/facing-out-blog http://www.lucysart.co.uk/curartive-1 http://www.lucysart.co.uk/ocular-bionica-story http://www.lucysart.co.uk/look200-1 References |
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