The Future
- Artist Name: Lucy Pulvers
- Dimensions:124x92cm
- Artist Location: NSW
- Medium: Oil on linen
- Category: Open
This work references the female oracles of Delphi in ancient Greece whose role it was to foretell the future. Will our world, which feels as though it is now in many ways at an inflection point, have a future that is engulfed in fire or enter a new golden age?
Lucy was born in Kyoto, Japan and grew up in both Tokyo and Kyoto before moving to Sydney in 2001. In 2014 Lucy was awarded the Thea Proctor Scholarship by the Julian Ashton Art School. Lucy have been selected for inclusion in the annual Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours exhibit in London every year since 2019. In the 2020 watercolour exhibition, her entry was awarded the 'President's Choice Award' and in 2024, Lucy won the 'Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award'. Lucy uses geometry, strong colour and bold lines to give her works an emotional power. These elements of colour and line are woven together to synthesise a surface world which captures a moment in the inner life of the figure portrayed. Japanese aesthetic culture has had a major impact on Lucy's work as she spent her childhood there and began to develop as an artist in Japan. In many traditional Japanese portraits, the face and hands are the elements that give expression to the inner life of the figure. The clothing of the figure, however, is often full of volume, geometry, colours and symbols which also tell the story of the figure. Lucy is fascinated by Kabuki and Noh theatre, where emotional climaxes in the drama are often expressed in frozen moments. The 'mie' in Kabuki is when the actor poses motionless but with extreme energy, bathed in dramatic lighting so the whole theatre holds its breath in the moment.
*Please note artwork will not be shipped until after the 2024 Finalist Exhibition which ends in mid-October 2024.