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Residency 14/7/24 - 24//8/24

Lucy Mulholland’s practice playfully investigates connections and exchanges between humans and other species. She focuses on actions or gestures that seem insignificant or futile and presents them as catalysts for potential future action. ‘An Upturn of Events’, is a recent work that depicts a fallen-over umbrella, which usually functions to protect humans from rainwater, but in this case is collecting water, and in so doing, is providing protection for non-human life. It functions as an initial inquiry into how we as humans could make small changes to the spaces we inhabit, perhaps repurposing everyday objects, in order to make steps towards interspecies kinship. Lucy uses humour as a tool when depicting or processing crisis or catastrophe to make it more palatable, whilst at the same time creating a space for hope.

Lucy Mulholland, Alarm Call, Plywood, PVC tape, slip cast ceramic, chaffinch feathers, audio, June 2023. (Staircase; 680 x 120 x 360 cm)
Lucy Mulholland, Alarm Call, Plywood, PVC tape, slip cast ceramic, chaffinch feathers, audio, June 2023. (Staircase; 680 x 120 x 360 cm)
Lucy Mulholland, An Upturn of Events, tempered stainless steel, solar hydraulic pump, pipe, pond plants stones, water,February 2024. (125 x 125 x 110 cm)
Lucy Mulholland, An Upturn of Events, tempered stainless steel, solar hydraulic pump, pipe, pond plants stones, water,February 2024. (125 x 125 x 110 cm)
Lucy Mulholland, Care and Confusion, Plywood, mahogany, skewers, pine beads, steel pipe, xylophone, wheel, polyurethane drive belt, May 2022. (167 x 55 x 128cm)
Lucy Mulholland, Care and Confusion, Plywood, mahogany, skewers, pine beads, steel pipe, xylophone, wheel, polyurethane drive belt, May 2022. (167 x 55 x 128cm)

Lucy Mulholland

Lucy Mulholland (b.1999) is an Artist based in Northern Ireland, with a particular interest in the role Art has in exploring possible post-anthropocentric futures. Lucy studied at Edinburgh College of Art, gaining a First-Class Honours Degree in Sculpture. She has exhibited in Ireland and Scotland, most recently showing in ‘AWAKEN’ in Swan Park, Buncrana by Artlink (February 2024), ‘Materials, Messages and Meanings’ in R- space Gallery in Lisburn (November 2023), ‘Royale Arcade Academy’, Arcade studios in Belfast, (October 2023) Lyon and Turnbull’s ‘Graduate showcase’ in their ‘Postwar and Contemporary Art Auction’ in Edinburgh (August 2023) and Scotland’s flagship recent graduate and emerging artists show ‘They had four years’ in GENERATOR projects, Dundee. (June 2023). In March 2023, Lucy spent a week on the Isle of Eigg, on a ‘bothy project’ residency sponsored by Lyon and Turnbull Auction House. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council’s Young Artist of the Year award. In 2022, she was the recipient of the Andrew Grant bursary, Lyon and Turnbull Graduate Showcase Award and was shortlisted for the Astaire prize. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Paolozzi Award at Edinburgh University.

Past Residencies