Lucy Stevenson

Something is going wrong. There is a teetering, an epoch; the Anthropocene reaches out and touches the cusp.   

My work is a conglomeration of fears and desires, hope, death through the lens of humanism- as a thing that does not happen to us as an outside force, but a thing that is inherent and needed. I work in artist’s books and sculpture, painting and drawing, printmaking, and taking objects from the surroundings of life and growing my practice through them.  

I take inspiration from several ideologies, whether or not I subscribe to them myself: transhumanism, existentialism, socialism, people’s history, and transcendentalism. All ecologies here on this pale blue dot are finely constructed and wonderfully interesting, and I examine it all.   

My excitement and curiosity of the world is my greatest asset. I am comfortable being uncomfortable, I want to grab life by the horns and chase death around the block.  

I have a hopeful view of death, and through my art I wish to tear away the structure and taboo of it that we have today, and to explore the oftentimes obsessive ways in which we try and get away from death, a theory known as Terror Management.