About Artist
Selected Artworks
News
Exhibitions

About Artist

Lucy Farley is a painter and printmaker, practicing stone lithograph and collage work techniques. Her work is influenced by the British Surrealist movement of the mid 20th Century, including artists such as Eileen Agar and the tapestries and murals of John Piper as well as the prints of Le Corbusier.

She is most recently completed a body of work inspired by the haunting and myths of the Savernake forest in Wiltshire. Entitled ‘Savernake Series’, a mystical spark and sense of English eeriness that places such as Kingly Vale, West Sussex and Savernake Forest, Wiltshire inspire the atmosphere created. These pieces began as part of Lucy Farley’s residency at Rabley Gallery in 2020 and are finalised in 10 stone lithograph and collage prints.

Selected Artworks

News

Lucy Farley’s print, ‘She Outran the Sun’ has entered the prestigious print collection of the V&A Museum. The selected work is a stone lithograph and collage, inspired by the ancient myths and spiritual stories surrounding Wiltshire’s own Savernake Forest. This piece focuses on the legend of the ‘headless horsewoman’, who rides along the Grand Avenue. Abstracted fragments of the female face appear as well as tree rubbings in charcoal taken from the forest itself. Here, Lucy Farley balances both the physical presence of nature, and an intriguing sense of a folklore unsolved.

Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS

2023
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy
London Art Fair 2023, Rabley Gallery, Islington
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Gallery, Somerset House

2022
London Art Fair 2022, Rabley Gallery, Islington
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, New York

2021
London Original Print Fair (Online), Rabley Gallery

2020
Royal Academy, Summer/Winter Exhibition
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy (online), showing with CCA galleries

2019
‘Multiples’ exhibition, Bridgeman editions, London

2018
Paintings and prints, Jarsbo Contemporary, Denmark
‘Amsterdam Art fair ‘Amsterdam
‘Positions’ Art Fair, Berlin
‘Road Trip’ Paintings and works on paper, Galerie Kuchling ,Berlin

2017
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Print Commission for Phillips De Pury Auction House, Live Event, London
Original Print Fair, Royal Academy London
Living Stones’ Paintings and prints Worton Hall, London

2016
‘Original Print Fair’ Royal Academy, London Showing with RA editions and CCA gallery

2015
‘Borrowed Time’ Solo show of paintings and prints, CCA with Rathbones, Jersey
‘The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait prize Exhibition, Kings Place Gallery, London
‘She Came to Stay’ Five Female Painters, Rook and Raven Gallery, London
‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy, London
‘The Original Print Fair’ Royal Academy, London

2014
‘Multiplied’ Christies, London
‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy, London
‘RA Editions’ Advanced Graphics, London
‘The Original Print Fair’ Royal Academy, London
‘The London Art Fair’ Business and Design Centre, London
‘ART 14’ Kensington Olympia, London
‘Underexposed’ Female Artists and the medium of Print, University of Kent, Canterbury

2013
‘Multiplied’ Christie’s, London
‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy, London
‘The Discerning Eye’ Mall Galleries, London

2011
‘The Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy London
‘The London Original Print Fair’ ( showing with RA Editions) Royal Academy, London

2010
‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy London

2009
‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy London

2008
‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy, London

2007
‘Originals 07’ Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries, London

2006
‘Lines on the Land’ Residence Gallery, London
Lives and works in London

RESIDENCIES

Rabley Drawing Centre and Rabley Gallery – Current

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

V&A Print Collection
‘The Reach’ from Folio 22, Pallant House Gallery Print Collection

EDUCATION / CAREER

2015 Lithography teaching, Royal College of Art, London
2013-2014 Tutor, Printmaking at Huguenot Editions, London
2012-2013 Royal Academy Patron’s Print Tutor, Royal Academy
2010-2013 Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
2007-2009 MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art, London
2001-2005 BA Honours, Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London
2000-2001 Foundation Course, Central Saint Martins, London