Lucy Daley
Lucy Daley
Lucy Daley, Unrequited Infatuation, 2024/25, digital film. Photography by Tessa Hallmann.
Unrequited Infatuation is composed of four moving stills, shot in public places of passage. Featuring large-scale signs crafted from bedsheets the film explores the tension between public and private and tentatively approaches that boundary. The film is an exercise in intimate discomfort, vulnerability and obsession, evaluating the decisions we make and behaviours we perform within the places we inhabit and what happens when this is disrupted and re-contextualised. Visitors are welcomed into a third space by experiencing the accompanying audio which allows them to stand, all at once, in the gallery space and in the artwork, enabling them to exist within the delicate membrane of overlap.
Arthur H. Taylor, The Waiting Room, oil on canvas, Beecroft Art Collection. Photography by Tessa Hallmann.
Oil on canvas, depicting two men stood at a distance removed from the viewer, engaging in an unknown conversation, allowing us to observe them as an absent onlooker.
Biography
Lucy Daley is a multidisciplinary practitioner who uses various means of making, observing, and spying to create artwork. With a background in illustration, Lucy has previously focused her practice within a didactic commercial context; currently, her independent, curiosity-driven creative practice explores her place within the world and people around her and the spaces they inhabit. Her work can involve impositions into the private space of others, fantasising about the sacred mundanities of passing strangers and evaluating the intersection between what we allow to be public and private. She examines themes of intimacy, privacy, voyeurism, connection, space, tension, relationships and behaviour through a combination of written work, field recordings, film, and image which together form a body of investigative research artworks.