I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation whose land I live and practice on. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”
— Four Quartets, T.S Eliot
Lucy Anlezark is a multidisciplinary artist practicing on Gadigal land. Working across and integrating painting, printmaking, and photo-media, Lucy examines the poetics of visual language and the substrates that convey it. Central to Lucys practice is an ongoing philosophical investigation into how we comprehend phenomena that evade fixed categorisation— absence, silence, the invisible, the transient. By accumulating and then deconstructing archival content, Lucy probes the tension between the material and immaterial, the perceptible and imperceptible. In her processes of material and visual metamorphosis— whether through erasure, repetition or obscuration— she asks, where is the threshold between presence and disappearance? How can the visible speak on behalf of the invisible?
Lucys recent thesis, An Absence Resounding, interrogates the sound archive and the philosophical implications of silence as a measurement of absence. Her research considers the limitations of our auditory perceptions, using the visualisation of sound waves to contemplate silence not as a void, but as a mutable perception. Does something ever truly fall silent and still—recede into the immaterial past—or does it quietly transform into something beyond our immediate perception? How might we access these transformations?
Graduating with a BFA from the National Art School in 2023, Lucy went on to complete her honours at UNSW Art & Design in 2024. She has exhibited in various shows, her most recent being the group exhibition, DARING, held at Curatorial & Co. Her works are held in private collections both locally and internationally. Upcoming projects include the collaborative development and participation in the public program for the UNSW Art & Design Grad show, The Annual.