Visual artist, educator and researcher.  Recent research focusses on the legacy of colonialism in African Caribbean textile history. The dispossession caused by the transatlantic slave trade means that ancestral and cultural connections have been severed. Through her work Lucille explore issues of identity and a past connected to chattel slavery.  She uses the materiality of cloth, visual symbolism of patterns and embroidery, botanical and ochre pigments especially indigo to explore the past; loss, grief, healing, resistance and reconnection.  In November 2020 she completed a Leverhulme Fellowship exploring Jamaica’s colonial indigo plantations.  In April 2017 I completed a  Churchill Fellowship to study indigo dyeing and pattern making amongst Yorùbá artisans in Nigeria, building on her work as Artist in Residence at the William Morris Gallery London.

Welcome to my site. You will find recent research and creative work in  Selected Projects and talks, workshops and exhibitions  in events.  Please add your name to my Mailing List for event updates or to leave a comment.  I welcome feedback, it’s nice to know who is visiting.

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