Lucia (b.1996, Brighton) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works across film, performance and installation. Her work uses humour to observe, re-enact and challenge interwoven structures of British culture and behaviour. Her practice often explores leisure, pleasure-seeking, and entertainment culture as crucial sites to understand who we are and why we do what we do. Tragicomedy and surrealism are used to explore ‘social truths’ and she values the power of 'cringe' to dredge up uncomfortable revelations or feelings.
Recent works investigate themes of community, identity, capitalism, tourism, existentialism and escapism, frequently using the "road movie" genre and the metaphor of the journey to unpack these ideas. Following her documentary-led film, The Last Tender, (2022) which chronicled the experience of being on a month-long cruise holiday/residency at the start of the pandemic, she became deeply interested in the relationship between disaster, entertainment, and hedonism. Whilst at Open School East (23/24), she created Roman Road, a video installation that used the hyper-real realm of tourism to explore concepts of self and other, subverting the role of tour guide to examine self-discovery and alienation.
EDUCATION:
Open School East (2023-24): Associate
Goldsmiths University (2016-19): BA Fine Art
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES:
Margate Pride Performance Residency (2025)
BFI Film Lab: Development lab at Turner Contemporary with executive producer mentorship (2025)
Open School East (2023/24)
Soho Theatre Sketch Comedy Lab, April - August (2022)
The Nicholas & Andrei Tooth Travelling Scholarship (2019)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES:
2025
Margate Pride, 'Wait Benidorm Santa', with Zelda Solomon (2025)
Hey Mum, 'Revs' Pt2, The Ivy House, London (2025)
Performing Pedagogy: A Variety Show, 'Revs' Pt1, Chemist Gallery, London (2025)
Film Presentation, with Guy Oliver, John Smith & Djofray Makumba, 'Roman Road', Droit House, Margate (2025)
Off Season, ‘Revs’ Pt1, with Rosa Brentnall Margate (2025)
2024
Wilderfest, 'Fish Friends Forever', With Emelia Kerr Beale & Middleton Maddocks, Margate (2024)
We Went Outside And It’s The Entire Earth (curated with Beatriz Lobo), 'Roman Road', Open School East, Margate (2024)
'Wish You Were Here, The Disappearance of Fido', Film Screening, Open School East, Margate (2024)
2023
And Here We Test Our Powers, 'A Chip On Their Shoulder' with Aimee Lyon, Avalon Cafe, London (2023)
SET Open Pool Championship, Pt1 & Pt2, SET Social, London: an absurdist pool tournament with live-screened documentation. Durational improvised commentary performance with Rosa Brentnall (2023)
Cloak and Dagger, Hole and Corner, 'A Journey Downstream', SET Woolwich Exhibition Space, London (2023)
2022
The Last Tender & Zagon, Film Screening, The Horse Hospital, London (2022)
Front Room Spectacular, Matchstick Pie House, London (2022)
Performance Lab Sharing, Soho Theatre, London (2022)
The Last Tender, Film Screening and Q&A, Peckhamplex, London (2022)
2021
Nicholas & Andrei Tooth Travelling Scholarship Showcase, Goldsmiths, London (2021)
Mega Mega, 'Is That Water? I'll Just Have A Taste', Site Festival, Stroud (2021)
2020
Limbo Invitational, Live Televised Pool Tournament Performance, Limbo, London: an absurdist live-screened pool tournament performance. Improvised commentary performance with Rosa Brentnall (2020)
Homely Encounters, 'Is That Water, I'll Just Have A Taste', Film Screening, SET Dalston, London (2020)
2019
Pets, TOMA Project Space, Southend-on-sea (2019)
Undergraduate Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London (2019)
Joan Carpenter Intervention, The East India Club, London: Invited to perform secretly inside The East India Club as part of artist Abigail Jacqueline Jones’, performance intervention (2019)
Everyday, Limbo, London (2019)
2018
Mono Kino, 'A Comfortably Warm Temperature', Film Screening, Courtyard Theatre, London (2018)
A Comfortably Warm Temperature, Exhibition, King's College Art Room, Cambridge (2018)
Badonkadonk, Variety Show, Queer CAMPerVan, London (2018)
Unperforming: Selected by Louise Ashcroft, Toynbee Studios, London (2018)
Sand In Their Eyes, Goldsmiths, London (2018)
Oooooooh's Cruise, Film Screening, Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, London (2018)
2017
Oooooooh’s Cruise: Film Screening, Buffet & Karaoke, The New Shoreditch Theatre, London (2017)
The Performance Auction, 'The Worm', The New Shoreditch Theatre, London (2017)
2016
Psychosocial, 'Of Stages', Exhibition, The Hive, London (2016)
2015
Strangelove Moving Image Festival, 'Jury Jeans', CSM Granary Building, London (2015)
Foundation Exhibition, CSM Granary Building, London
SELECTED PROJECTS / WORKSHOPS:
Its My Life, Don’t You Forget, Publication Launch, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2024)
If I Recall Correctly with Alex Margo Arden, Workshop, Margate Caves (2024)
Circulating Energies, Led by Hugh Nicholson, Dunkirk Triennale Conference on Collective Energy: Commissioned Performance/Workshop, Halle aux Sucres, Dunkirk (2024)
It’s My Life, Don’t You Forget, The Beacon, Ramsgate: A 10 part, process-driven project developed in collaboration with The Vacuum Cleaner, the OSE Associates, and the community at The Beacon, a NHS mental healthcare centre. (2024)
Wish You Were Here, The Disappearance of Fido, Lead Artist with Despacito Art School, Margate: This moving image work emerged from a two-day performance and set-making collaboration with Middleton Maddocks and Emelia Kerr Beale and Open School East’s Despacito Art School. (2024)
OTHER:
Performer in 'A NEW KIND OF DAYTIME' by Jennet Thomas, Hybrid Film & Performance Work (2025)
Stylist, Thieves, by Michelle Williams Gamaker, Shown at South London Gallery, Bluecoat and the DCA (2022)