Lucy Chapman is a multi-media artist whose artworks draw on scientific research. In this episode, she talks about how her father’s dyslexia motivated her to teach in special needs education, how social justice has been a driver for her, her attraction to cyanotype and her fascination with the Dream Machine and its interpretations of consciousness, her experience of prolonged illness including an out-of-body experience, how ill health has initiated many of her artworks, and how global uncertainty and the climate crisis have been other motivations for her art.

Lucy Chapman talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Day to Day Living Artist’s Book in the form of Lucy’s reimagined NHS hospital file

Personal Data

Bill of Health in the window of Central St Martin’s, London

Kelp Forest from Forever is Composed of Nows

Garden from Measured Response exhibition, a collaborative artwork with 2003 Stop the War March photo by Joel Parsons

You can see more of Lucy’s artwork on her website

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial