Lucy Tyler is an artist who makes performances, texts, videos and installations. She uses improvisational processes to explore how the present and futures of landscapes, spaces and places are intertwined with the material practices and ephemera of m/othering. She devises and writes mobile and sited performances, exploring the relationality of ecologies. In her recent work, Lucy is interested in how commodities, capitalist excess, surveillance, and pollution interact with mothering bodies and places. Her practice explores alternative futures to historical material logics. She works in poetry, scores, scripts, prose, photography and body-based/somatic experimentation. A key theme in Lucy’s practice now is the possibility of a ‘maternal ecosomatics’ that operates against economic imperatives. She collaborates with other artists in devising performance methods, improvising scores, and writing texts, and audio-visual material. Lucy is a resident artist at Ayres House Studios.  

Lucy facilitates and studies the seeds that germinate into creative works. With a special interest in the generative phase of artistic research & development, she holds space for artists to make and, in so doing, explores questions about what it is to be with artists, and what supports them. 

Image copyright of Frank Van de Ven (Body Landscape, Peak District, 2024)