Lucy Williams

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Lucy Williams revitalises utopian modernist architecture into beautifully vibrant collaged-reliefs. Using a combination of media - hand-coloured card, Perspex, pillow stuffing, and embroidery - she's able to create uncanny optical illusions. Architecture that would normally be populated with many people... stations, public swimming pool, petrol garages, homes, are all desolate, echoing the black and white photographic documentation from which she works, yet are surprisingly never devoid of human presence. Williams's meticulous process might lend the answer here, as her mathematical precision is paramount, with each scalpel score and individually cut leaf breathing life into the geometric linear buildings. The Modernist line is set against hand-woven skies of blue and grey hues and lush forest foliage, a homage to the Modernist movement dissected and remoulded to her own measurements.

Interview by Freire Barnes
Filming and editing by Roland de Villiers