Geoff and Eilidh Lucas’s works seek to contribute to understandings of our relation to Nature. Their reassessment of accepted views, views they have found most prevalent in the cultures they have lived within, has combined artistic concerns, most often in the area of the ‘concrete’ and Concrete Art, with scientific and philosophical insights, to enable a conception of the world as a self-organising process, in which consciousness is integral to materiality.
From these considerations they have proposed a process view of the concrete; what they have described as a ‘quancrete’ art. Their works explore what a quancrete art may be, as well as consider its social and political implications, for instance, how the problems of growth and sustainability may be better understood, and how new understanding here may lead to a revised relationship with our environment.
An individual’s development may always seem to be at the expense of its environment. This poses the question of how people make progress without causing environmental harm? While this dilemma may be common to all, Geoff and Eilidh Lucas see this conflicted state as exemplified by art practice: the putting under the microscope of all personal and professional choices and behaviours intimately entwines ideas of art and life.
To further consider these difficulties they moved to an isolated rural location in Scotland in 2006, and began their collaborative practice, devising and initiating the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art (HICA). HICA was an extensive Relational artwork, set up to provide a framework for examining these concerns. To this end, from 2008 to 2016, it took the form of an artist-run gallery whose exhibitions included artists such as Alan Johnston, Hans Richter, Liam Gillick, Daniel Spoerri, Augusto de Campos and Boyle Family.
Geoff Lucas completed a PhD study at University of Dundee, in 2015, which further explored these areas of concern in the context of HICA’s exhibition programmes.
With the end of the gallery phase of the HICA project in 2016 (Geoff and Eilidh Lucas still maintain the HICA organisation) they moved to western France, where they continue their research, developing their collaborative studio practice alongside running a new exhibition space, titled EQ.
Their recent solo exhibitions include at Concept Space, Japan; PS, Netherlands; AIS, Japan. Group exhibitions include Alfa Gallery, USA; SNO, Australia; Grey Area, Croatia. Their works are held in public and private collections in the UK, Europe and Japan.
From these considerations they have proposed a process view of the concrete; what they have described as a ‘quancrete’ art. Their works explore what a quancrete art may be, as well as consider its social and political implications, for instance, how the problems of growth and sustainability may be better understood, and how new understanding here may lead to a revised relationship with our environment.
An individual’s development may always seem to be at the expense of its environment. This poses the question of how people make progress without causing environmental harm? While this dilemma may be common to all, Geoff and Eilidh Lucas see this conflicted state as exemplified by art practice: the putting under the microscope of all personal and professional choices and behaviours intimately entwines ideas of art and life.
To further consider these difficulties they moved to an isolated rural location in Scotland in 2006, and began their collaborative practice, devising and initiating the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art (HICA). HICA was an extensive Relational artwork, set up to provide a framework for examining these concerns. To this end, from 2008 to 2016, it took the form of an artist-run gallery whose exhibitions included artists such as Alan Johnston, Hans Richter, Liam Gillick, Daniel Spoerri, Augusto de Campos and Boyle Family.
Geoff Lucas completed a PhD study at University of Dundee, in 2015, which further explored these areas of concern in the context of HICA’s exhibition programmes.
With the end of the gallery phase of the HICA project in 2016 (Geoff and Eilidh Lucas still maintain the HICA organisation) they moved to western France, where they continue their research, developing their collaborative studio practice alongside running a new exhibition space, titled EQ.
Their recent solo exhibitions include at Concept Space, Japan; PS, Netherlands; AIS, Japan. Group exhibitions include Alfa Gallery, USA; SNO, Australia; Grey Area, Croatia. Their works are held in public and private collections in the UK, Europe and Japan.
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