Lot 310 - Lucy Hutchings - Blue Crowd

Oil paint on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About

Lucy Hutchings is a British painter whose work highlights the absurdity of human tendencies, focusing on shameful behaviours and ones that reject our social conditionings. Inspired by personal and shared experiences of debauchery, Lucy reimagines the familiar world as unsettling and carnivalesque. Orifices, bodily fluids, laughter and pain are subjects to push and pull imagery which are both pleasurable and grotesque, seductive and repulsive.

Education

2023–2024

MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK

2019–2022

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Art University, Leeds, UK

Group Exhibitions

2025

south open 3, OHSH Projects, London, UK

2024

Reflection of Time, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK

MA Degree Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, London, UK

Bizarre, Art Magnitude, Suffolk, UK

Skeuomorph, Canal Boat Contemporary and Greatorex Street, London, UK

2022

A Coalescence Of Daydreams, The Affordable Art Fair, London, UK

Ones to Watch, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, UK

Awards

2024

Harriet Anstruther Prize

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Blue Crowd is a monochromatic painting capturing a fleeting moment in an ambiguous crowd. I was thinking about the shifting movement of disco spotlights in a nightclub and how they illuminate bodies. Oil paint is used to push and pull the individuals, mimicking the passing light, and thus exposing laughter, singing or screaming.