Lucy May Fearful Sphere (below), was made specially for I Saw Three Ships (21 Nov - 21 Dec 08). In fact it may be truer to say that the exhibition grew around this pivotal piece, drawing first the curators, then the artists and latterly the visitors, further and further into the visually dense and creatively catalytic short story The Ghost Ships, by Angela Carter. "On a table in the centre of the room, like some abandoned Christmas feast that has taken on a life of its own, lurks Lucy May's Fearful Sphere, which takes its name and inspiration from that last, defiant pudding at the end of The Ghost Ships. Its ominous contents ooze out from a body constructed of black plastic flowers and foliage, forming weird stalagmites where it makes contact with the floor." From the essay A Dark Christmas, by Sophie Dodds The piece has since been shown at the Royal College of Art, Work-in-progress Show and at Bank of America, Canary Wharf, after May won first place in the 2008 Graduate Scholarship Competition provided by myartspace.com.

Artist's Statement
"My work is founded on an ongoing investigation of memory and the imagination, and revels in the grotesquely beautiful and the dusty annals of the past. The current sculptural work takes its cue from graphic sources such as the etchings of Rembrandt, Goya and Durer. It is heavily informed by Italian Baroque sculpture and therefore religious motifs. Said motifs and arresting details from etchings are worked up into fantastical tableaux and figures. Their form, although recognizably in homage to traditional sculptural idioms, are molten and indeterminate; subject matter and meaning are thus rendered subservient to the seething and writhing mass of secretions and organic growth."

CV

Born 1982, Currently living and working in London

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Conglomerates (Part 3)
Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London

Conglomerates (Part 2)                
Crimes Town, London

2006

Conglomerates (Part 1)                
The Residence, London

Group Exhibitions

2009

Basement Projects February 2009
Fred [London] Ltd

Work- in-progress Show
Royal College of Art

Wallis Dies and Goes to Paradise
Paradise Row, London

2008

I Saw Three Ships
WW Gallery, London

Chiaroscuro
Pharos Gallery, London

2007

Iota                                          
Cell Project Space, London

A Shady Outpost                      
APT Gallery, London

2006

Bunny Incinerator                        
Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London

Future First, History Last              
The Residence, London                                

Education

2008 – 2010

The Royal College of Art, London
MA Sculpture

2003 - 2005

The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford.
BA Fine Art