Artist Lucy Casson’s materials have already been through one
life-circle: as tins, kitchen utensils, toys or other small gadgets.
With dexterity and humour Lucy Casson gives them a new lease of life in
her workshop and turns them into weird and wonderful creatures and lets
them reflect carefully observed human everyday scenes...
Lucy Casson collects used objects, brushes and mysterious colourful
plastic things of every kind. She lets herself get totally inspired by
the poetry and humour of these things and combines them with coloured,
printed metals, wood and wire. Lively scenes are created, small dramas
are touched by a delicious, true comprehension of human and animal
characteristics.
Her themes she finds in the most commonplace moments
or chance meetings. She transfers them into art thanks to her
marvellous talent of observation of characters as well as through her
technical virtuosity which astonishes and amazes her international
collecting fans.
Lucy Casson studied at the Camberwell School of
Arts and Crafts and at the Hereford College of Art. In the 80s she
worked with Andy Hazell. At the end of the 90s she had her big
break-through with the new creature made exclusively out of bric-a-brac.
The ideas and inspirations emerge from each piece of junk, each
creature finds its own story. Many private collectors, as well as the
Victoria & Albert Museum, are enthusiastic about them and the amount
of public commissions for them as well as for the larger figures, is
pretty long.
