Lucy McKenzie : prime suspect

Lucy McKenzie excavates and appropriates images, objects, and motifs from the histories of art, architecture, and design; literature, music, and film; fashion, politics, and sport.

She transforms these source materials using the outmoded techniques of nineteenth-century decorative painting, creating surprising new constellations that illuminate an alternative history of painting that emphasizes the vernacular, the domestic, and the collaborative.

The so-called ‘applied arts’ emerge as key points in a narrative that diverges from the established chronologies of the avant-garde and modern art.