Lucy Lyons
Lucy investigates drawing as a phenomenological activity that evidences experience and communicates knowledge in medical sciences. Since 1999 her work has been made on location in dissection rooms, labs and medical museums. She has brought together drawings of artefacts she has made from a variety of medical museums visited over the last 15 years to create her own visual collections. Objects that would not be found together are collected and displayed in re-imagined, 2 dimensional cabinets of taxonomy.
Lucy’s PhD Delineating Disease: a system for investigating Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva involved using drawing as an activity to investigate the breadth of experiences of FOP, a rare disease where connective tissue turns to bone. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Medical Museion at University of Copenhagen her research investigated issues relating to ageing in a medical museum context through drawing practice. She is a lecturer in drawing research and painting at City & Guilds of London Art School and artist-in-residence at Barts Pathology Museum QMUL where she coordinates ‘Drawing Parallels: artistic encounters with pathology’ a Share Academy funded project in partnership between UCL, UAL and London Museums Group. She also teaches visual note taking for surgeons on MEd course at Imperial College, exploring art and medicine at Mary Ward Centre and Drawing4Surgeons at Barts. She is currently exhibiting work in ‘Ce Qui Fait Fragilité’ in Paris and will be showing new work at ‘Anatomica’, an international group show at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada opening January 2015.
Lucy’s PhD Delineating Disease: a system for investigating Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva involved using drawing as an activity to investigate the breadth of experiences of FOP, a rare disease where connective tissue turns to bone. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Medical Museion at University of Copenhagen her research investigated issues relating to ageing in a medical museum context through drawing practice. She is a lecturer in drawing research and painting at City & Guilds of London Art School and artist-in-residence at Barts Pathology Museum QMUL where she coordinates ‘Drawing Parallels: artistic encounters with pathology’ a Share Academy funded project in partnership between UCL, UAL and London Museums Group. She also teaches visual note taking for surgeons on MEd course at Imperial College, exploring art and medicine at Mary Ward Centre and Drawing4Surgeons at Barts. She is currently exhibiting work in ‘Ce Qui Fait Fragilité’ in Paris and will be showing new work at ‘Anatomica’, an international group show at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada opening January 2015.
