Curriculum Vitae
About the artist
Lucy Longley is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist. Her practice encompasses the broader themes surrounding sleep, somnambulism, nightmares and sleep deprivation. Also focusing on the representation of mental health conditions and her personal experiences of bipolar disorder and other chronic mental health conditions, she aims to open up conversations around this and begin to destigmatise these themes through her artistic practice.
Lucy is a regular seller at makers markets and through her website.
Education
September 2021 - July 2025
Fine Art BaHons, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University
September 2020 - July 2021
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design with Merit, De Monfort University
Experience
February 2024 - Current
Freelance Events Photographer for Studio KT1 creative agency. Responsible for capturing Kingston First’s ‘Light Up Kingston’ event, and Kingston University’s ‘Bright Ideas’ enterprise competition and awards ceremony.
December 2023 - Current
Freelance Illustrator
Creating custom tattoo designs and selling at multiple makers market and through multiple online platforms.
Exhibitions
28 November - 11 December 2024
‘Dream Week’
18 - 24 March 2024
‘Look Within Yourself’
2 - 6 November 2023
‘Tentacular Thinking’
25 - 29 September 2023
‘Collaboration, Collision, Collusion‘
29 - 2 November 2022
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‘Dream Week’ was an affordable exhibition hosted by Open Art Spaces at The Tabernacle, Notting Hill. Longley exhibited ‘57. Unsuitable Partner’ alongside 100 dream-related artworks by other artists.
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Collaborative exhibition with Puikeih Lam, creating a conversation between their artistic practices. Lam’s work investigates her physical and psychological experiences of the world in contrast to Longley’s enquiries into the unconscious brain and the experience of dreaming.
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Fine Art BaHons level 5 group show, investigating human connections in an increasingly connectionless world.
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Collaborative work with Samuel Johnson for Fine Art BaHons level 4 show. Both artists’ small-scale ceramic works are presented together in a pile of compost, exploring ideas of physical and mental landscapes.
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