Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by Carrie Scott

About 

Lucy Churchill is a sculptor whose innovative, taboo-breaking work addresses women's sexuality and body-autonomy with a frank female gaze.  

Classically trained as a stonecarver in the architectural and memorial trade (her work adorns cathedrals and churchyards across Britain) she broke free from tradition as a result of the #MeToo movement.  

Combining Direct Carving into stone and bone with 3D scanning, printing and casting she turns her unique sculptures into statement jewellery and pop-art figurines. By developing the original stonecarvings in this way, wider access is given to her art and funds raised for charities supporting trauma recovery and women's health, period poverty and abortion rights.  

While inviting conversation on challenging topics, her work is imbued with an underlying sense of reverence and soothing tactility. 

Education 

(Training period between 1985 - 2000) 

An art degree, museum internship, diplomas and traditional craft apprenticeships in the stonecarving trade: 

Degree in 3-Dimensional Design from Middlesex University, London 

Internship at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

Diploma in Historic Architectural Stonecarving at City & Guilds of London Art School 

Diploma in Masonry from Building Crafts Training School, London 

Apprenticeship at Dick Reid's Workshop, York 

Apprenticeship at Richard Kindersley's Workshop, London 

Apprenticeship at Rattee & Ketts Historic Building Restoration, Cambridge 

Apprenticeship at The Carving Workshop, Cambridge 

2000 onwards: Freelance stonecarver carving memorials and architectural details. 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2009: 'Art & Memory Exhibition' at West Dean, Sussex. My 'Cupped Hands' is now on permanent display at Grimthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. 

2021 

The Art of Protest Gallery, York. (Solo sculpture show). 

'Walk Bye', New Jersey, US. (Group show of images). 

2022 

The Art of Protest Gallery, York. (New collection of sculpture). 

Seattle Erotic Art Fair, Seattle, US. (Painted casts of Anasyrma). 

Museum of Sex Objects, The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London. (Sheela-Na-Gig). 

Bull Farm Gallery, New York State, US. ('Mother Earth', group show). 

Private venue group shows curated by Carrie Scott. 

2023 

Woman Made Gallery, Chicago Illinois, US. ('ROE 2.0' group show). 

Gallery Representation 

The Art of Protest Gallery, York. 

Carrie Scott, London.  

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artworks 

The postcard drawings are based on my stone sculptures, carved as act of reconciliation with my body after sexual abuse. Consciously and unconsciously I found myself tapping into and getting sustenance from ancient depictions of the 'Sacred Wound' and 'Anasyrma'. This gesture of lifting one's skirt to display the genitals can be an apotropaic device to ward off evil, or to provoke laughter and healing. It is a defiant act that is increasingly re-emerging in political protests around the world. The Sheela-na-gig is a tribute to the 12th century Irish stonecarving that was recently included in the British Museum's Feminine Power exhibition. 

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