Artist duo Emily Lucas and Nick Grellier’s (both laughing) Collaborative work is grounded in drawing practice and rich research that explores, discovers, invents, solves problems and cracks jokes. We make artwork using low value, low fi materials and objects from around the home, including baby wipes, stencils, felt tip pens and printing stamps, in order to tackle the problem of emotion versus seriousness and other hierarchies both in the art world and wider society. Our remit is to generate new ways to talk, write and think about drawing and other art practices. The work is both playful and serious, celebrating difficulties and achievements. Together, we have begun to develop our own manifesto for drawing as a way to embrace mistakes, test out new ideas and acknowledge non-binary viewpoints and grey areas, giving value to the overlooked.
July 2023 Cover illustration commission, Good On Paper, Stroud
June 2023 Post Graduate Research Conference, Frenchay Campus, UWE, Bristol, Paper presentation
June 2023 PROOF! Postgraduate Research Conference, Bower Ashton UWE, Bristol, Performance of ‘The Game of Enjambments’
June 2023 houseworkwork exhibition at Site Festival, Stroud
May 2023 Interview featured in Good On Paper, Stroud
March 2023 Salon For A Speculative Future – Women Artists’ Print Portfolio Exhibition & Publication launch at MOCA, London
January 2023 Residency At The Garage, Bristol
October 2022 Salon For A Speculative Future – Women Artists’ Print Portfolio Exhibition/Impact 12 Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference UWE, Bristol
March 2022 Residency At The Garage, Bristol
(both laughing) Collaborative work is held in Women Artists’ Print Portfolio in Tate Archives, RA Print Collection and Gloucestershire Archives