C Lucy R Whitehead To Another , 2024

C. Lucy R. Whitehead (b. 1991, Liverpool, UK) is a London-based artist. She holds a BA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a BA, where she was awarded the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship. Whitehead's work has been exhibited internationally, venues including Mint Gallery in Munich, Tabula Rasa in Beijing, and Berntson Bhattacharjee in London, with a recent solo exhibition at Soho Revue in London. She has recently been awarded the DYCP grant from Arts Council England.

My work explores themes of embodiment; seeing the body as Itself and seeing the body as Other. More specifically, I am interested in the times we encounter our body Itself as the Other. Moments, where we become abruptly and inescapably aware of how our physical self is not something we possess or control but rather something we inhabit.

In becoming aware of our physical misgivings and limitations, we establish our position in the world and what we can make of it. The canvas edge serves as a metaphor for these contingencies. 'Figures' devoid of any discernible identity or gender, squeeze and stretch into the edges of the picture plain, ultimately succumbing to these boundaries. What appears as a result straddles the line between the familiar and the absurd; the joyous and the grotesque. An entity which is teetering on the edge of plausibility.