Running Along the Contours presents drawings by Postgraduate Researcher Lucy Crouch
Running Along the Contours is a new exhibition showcasing recent work by artist and practice-led Postgraduate Researcher Lucy Crouch.
Open from 24 to 27 April at Assembly House in Leeds, Running Along the Contours features Lucy Crouch’s recent work exploring the physicality of drawing practice.
The exhibition explores line and surface across two and three dimensions, seeing the drawn gesture in spatial objects and at the point of contact between materials.
Lucy Crouch, Oscillation (detail), 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.
Lucy Crouch is an artist based in Leeds and completed an MA Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2019. She is currently working towards a practice-led PhD in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, funded by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH).
Lucy’s work stems from noticing and facilitating a material’s ability to perform drawing gestures, including a line in space and a paper-thin surface.
For Crouch, drawing lies in the imprint, the trace of an action and evidence of two materials touching, which can be non-human. Her expanded drawing practice pays attention to the physical substance of drawing materially.
Lucy Crouch, Studio work.
Lucy said of her practice-led research:
“The concept of drawing is the subject of my work. The quality of the drawing material not only expresses a line but expands and contracts to expose its own surface.
“My research stems from an explorative play with materials and is supported by an engagement with the intersection of New Materialism and drawing practice.
“The drawn gesture is embedded in spatial objects, the material itself becoming activated through its density of weight and mark.”
Lucy Crouch, Interlaced and interconnected, 2023. DRAWInternational, Caylus, France. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Assembly House is an artist-led community arts organisation, project space and artist studios located in a Victorian mill, alongside the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, in Armley, Leeds. Since 2013, they have been providing affordable studio spaces, career support for early career artists, developing creative projects in and for the local community, a programme of skills sharing and commissioning local artists.
Lucy has been a studio holder at Assembly House since 2023. She said of her upcoming exhibition:
“I am looking forward to showing my work at Assembly House for the first time.
“Running Along the Contours will bring together different strands of my research that show my broad approach to drawing practice.”
Lucy’s exhibition opens with an evening event on Thursday 24 April and all are welcome to attend.
Lucy Crouch, Interlaced and interconnected, 2023. DRAWInternational, Caylus, France. Photo courtesy of the artist.
More information
Find out about Lucy Crouch’s postgraduate research and art practice.
Feature image
Artist Lucy Crouch in her studio. Photo by Andy Lord.
