Lucy Willow: Fallen
12 April - 1 June 2014
Lucy Willow’s show Fallen is a very small animation of a dying goldfinch entirely surrounded by large-scale wall drawings inspired by Frenchman’s Creek, and the artist’s recent trip to China. Lucy has been working for over two years with images of a pair of goldfinches that crashed into the glass at Kestle Barton and died. During a short residency here in December last year, Lucy discovered Frenchman’s Creek for the first time and found the fallen trees in the low tide silt echoed her long-standing interest in transitory work and the relationship between ephemerality, mourning and loss in her practice. On returning to the gallery space, Lucy began working directly onto the walls, making a series of gestural marks influenced by a recent trip to China. About the process, Lucy says, ‘The process of making Fallen has been one of losing everything and finding it again, over and over, working in one area and losing it in another.’
