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Lucy Waters – New Light Bursary Winner

Polarity

£700.00

Porcelain paint on upcycled ceramics

26.5cm x 26.5cm x 3.5cm

 

‘At first glance the piece looks like a traditional and beautiful piece of blue and white porcelain. It could be something that you would see in domestic interiors throughout the country. I love how on looking closer you become aware of a deeper meaning. The imaginative upcycling and repurposing of material seem to fit the concept behind the work perfectly. The overall effect is powerful and engaging and really stood out to me as a great artwork and a worthy winner.‘

George Harris

 

‘I am absolutely thrilled to have been selected by Judge, George Harris, for one of the New Light Summer Exhibition Bursaries, it goes without saying, it is never something you expect and is very much appreciated! It was my first time applying to an opportunity with New Light, so it means a great deal to have had a work selected and to be alongside so many other fantastic pieces. The Bursary will provide a valuable injection into my practice, both practically and as a much-needed boost in energy, which can be vital for an Artist to keep going!’

Lucy Waters

 

Winner of the 2024/2025 North East Emerging Artist Award, Waters’ practice involves utilising up-cycled crockery, as a canvas. After researching and examining the socio-economic scope of the North East, Waters makes works in response to her findings. The entirely hand-painted, charity shop bought pieces, are a playful but out of kilter nod to traditional blue tableware – often featuring Waters’ family home/street that she lives on, in Newcastle, as a reoccurring motif. Employing the use of text in order to scoff at, make reference to, or to highlight the ludicrousness of such socio-politically derived language, Waters can be found to lift text from lengthier extracts, commonly used phrases, or referencing quotes and statistics. Although approached through a very particular Northern-based lens, the significance of the concept and message as a whole, can be applied in a much broader sense, resonating greatly with the current climate we find ourselves living within.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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