Lucy Chetcuti: Statement
Lucy Chetcuti is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kamberri/Canberra, working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and monotyping. Her practice is grounded in a deep engagement with queer-ecology, using the natural world as both subject and framework to explore queerness, identity, and belonging. Queer relationality and intimacy are at the centre of her practice.
Drawing from walks on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Lucy observes plant life and landscapes, translating these encounters into abstract forms that echo natural rhythms. Her work often resists rigid categorisation, instead moving fluidly between materials and processes to create layered, sensory experiences. Through this, she questions and dismantles heteronormative ideas of what is “natural,” embracing queerness as something instinctive, vital, and ever-present in the world around us.
Lucy's visual language is experimental and intuitive. She uses colour, texture and material to evoke emotion and memory, often creating works that sit between the personal and the universal. Recent explorations into monotyping have expanded her practice further, allowing for improvisation and immediacy in her mark-making.
Her work is also informed by community and collaboration. She has been involved in artist-run spaces, curated exhibitions, and participated in collective projects. These experiences reflect a belief that art is not only about solitary practice but about shared spaces, voices, and dialogue. Lucy’s work consistently centres on reimagining the relationship between bodies and the environment—seeking to reclaim softness, pleasure, and complexity in the face of social and ecological precarity.
Jacquie Meng, Andjana Pachkova, Lucy Chetcuti, Denis Clarke & Andrew Sullivan
ON EXHIBITION
July 4-August 10, 2024