Prof Lucy Orta
Chair of Art and the Environment
A visual arts practitioner addressing key social and ecological challenges through making and collaborative working. Founder of the UAL Art for the Environment Residency Programme. Lucy employs a wide range of media to visualise relationships between the body and our natural and urban habitats. Her projects include 'Refuge Wear’ / 'Body Architecture', portable, lightweight and autonomous structures that reflect on human mobility and survival; 'Nexus Architecture', performances that shape modular and collective bodies through the metaphor of the social link; 'Life Guards / Genius Loci', wearable sculpture that question human vulnerability. Whilst also working on collaborative projects that interrogate local and global food chains through the ritual of community dining (70x7); water scarcity arising from its pollution and corporate control (OrtaWater); the effects of climate change on migration (Antarctica); and the value of interwoven ecosystems (Amazonia).
She/Her/Hers
Publications
Orta L, Orta J. Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food & The Public Sphere (2016)
Orta L, Orta J. Fabulae Romanae: Lucy+Jorge Orta (2012)
Orta L, Orta J. Lucy + Jorge Orta: food water life (2011)
Orta L. Mapping the invisible: Eu-Roma Gypsies (2010)
Orta L. Pattern book, An introduction to Collaborative Practices (2009)
Exhibitions
Diversity United: European Contempoary Art [Antarctica World Passport Office] at New Tretyakov Gallery, Russia (12 November 2020 – November 2021)
Intersection at Les Tanneries, France (10 October 2020 – 10 January 2021)
Courants Verts [Sympony For Absent Wildlife] at Fondation Groupe EDF, France (15 September 2020 – January 2021)
Orta Drawing Lab at Drawing Lab, France (25 August – 29 October 2020)
Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon A Painted Ocean [Raft of The Medusa] at John Hansard Gallery, UK (Dates TBC)