Geoff and Eilidh Lucas’s works seek to contribute to understandings of our relation to Nature. Their reassessment of this relation has combined artistic concerns, most often in the area of the ‘concrete’ and Concrete Art, with insights from science and philosophy, 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: they see potential, for example, to interpret Van Doesburg’s Concrete Art in a way consistent with many of the propositions of A.N.Whitehead, especially when informed by recent discoveries in physics and biology. Their works then explore what a quancrete art may be, as well as consider its social and political implications; for instance, how, through this, the problems of growth and sustainability may be better understood, and how new understanding here may lead to a revised relationship with our environment.
They began their collaborative practice in 2007, after moving to an isolated rural location in Scotland, where they devised and initiated the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art (HICA). HICA was an extensive relational artwork that provided a framework for examining their artistic concerns. 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 developed HICA’s research in the context of the gallery’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 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 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: they see potential, for example, to interpret Van Doesburg’s Concrete Art in a way consistent with many of the propositions of A.N.Whitehead, especially when informed by recent discoveries in physics and biology. Their works then explore what a quancrete art may be, as well as consider its social and political implications; for instance, how, through this, the problems of growth and sustainability may be better understood, and how new understanding here may lead to a revised relationship with our environment.
They began their collaborative practice in 2007, after moving to an isolated rural location in Scotland, where they devised and initiated the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art (HICA). HICA was an extensive relational artwork that provided a framework for examining their artistic concerns. 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 developed HICA’s research in the context of the gallery’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 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 private collections in the UK, Europe and Japan.
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