Lucy Casson
Artist Statement
"This is a 'whole world' of creatures. Busy, resting waking playing. An expedition to somewhere looking through a cheese grater. My love of kitchen utensils, history and observation of people. Their gestures, character, behaviour. They represent us, gleamed from travels, round the corner in London streets or the wilds of the world."
Lucy Casson 2001
Lucy Casson's work is inspired by the poetry, and the comedy of everyday things. She finds her subject matter in mundane moments and chance encounters, and transforms it, through her wonderful observation of character as much by her technical virtuosity, into art.
Working in coloured tin, wood and wire she creates vivid scenes, little quotidation dramas touched with delightfully true understanding of the quirks of human and animal behavior.
Lucy trained at Camberwell School of Art & Crafts. She has been working in metal since 1982, and has exhibited in Edinburgh, Dublin, San Francisco and London.