Lucy Stevens

Lucy Stevens is a multidisciplinary British contemporary artist whose work explores our relationship with the natural environment.
She draws inspiration from ornithology and colour theory. Her projects often include working in collaboration with experts in the natural world including scientists, museum curators, ornithologists, photographers and musicians.

Her work interprets birdsong, museum collections and conservation data into mixed media abstract portraits and colour charts on paper, sound works developed from gathering field recordings and most recently wooden sculptures.

Her most recent work in collaboration with Leicester Museum & Art Gallery explores creative methods for cataloguing British bird skin specimens. Her solo exhibition ‘Colour Coded Birds’, saw a diverse collection of bird specimens grouped together by colour alongside contemporary artworks. The bird skin collection inspired Lucy to create new 2D and 3D artworks that use intense colour combinations. Artworks included within the exhibition combine photography of the bird skins on display with Lucy’s signature instinctive mark marking. As well as colourful abstract wooden sculptures, holding bird eggs from the museum’s collection, which interpret ornithologic...

2006- 2007: MA Fine Art Nottingham Trent University School of Art & Design

2002- 2005: BA (Hons) Fine Art Nottingham Trent University School of Art & Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions and projects

2022-2023: Colour-Coded Birds, Leicester Museum, Leicester

2022: End of Residency Exhibition, Bankside Hotel Artist Studio, London

2021: Chasing Seasons, StudionAme, Leicester

2019: Bird Skins exhibition in collaboration with Bill Newsinger, Lightbox Gallery, Leicester.

2019: LCB Depot Showcase Prize Winner exhibition, LCB Depot, Leicester

2011: The End of the Line, Egg Box Messages and Under the Seine, CAMAC, France

2010: Don’t Shoot the Messenger, site-specific sound walk, Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire

2009: Walk With Me, sound walk for the grounds of Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions and projects

2023: REJECTS exhibition with Art Friend, London

2023: Colour and Monochrome exhibition, Tarpey gallery, Castle Donington, Derby

2022: The Harley Open, Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire

2022: Tarpey Gallery Open 2022, Castle Donington

2022: Long-listed for Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery

2022: #TheOtherAvatars NFT project led by Saatchi Art. Accessed online via OpenSea

2021 - 2022: @background_bob and his amazing friends – guess who’s back! Group exhibition at Firstsite, Essex

2021: Tarpey Gallery Open 2021, Castle Donington

2021: Leeds ...