About
![lucy stevenson](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content_summary_free_image_webp/public/2023-05/lucy_stevenson_profile_0.jpg.webp?itok=C16xZb8s)
Something is going wrong. There is a teetering, an epoch; the Anthropocene reaches out and touches the cusp.
My work is a conglomeration of fears and desires, hope, death through the lens of humanism- as a thing that does not happen to us as an outside force, but a thing that is inherent and needed. I work in artist’s books and sculpture, painting and drawing, printmaking, and taking objects from the surroundings of life and growing my practice through them.
I take inspiration from several ideologies, whether or not I subscribe to them myself: transhumanism, existentialism, socialism, people’s history, and transcendentalism. All ecologies here on this pale blue dot are finely constructed and wonderfully interesting, and I examine it all.
My excitement and curiosity of the world is my greatest asset. I am comfortable being uncomfortable, I want to grab life by the horns and chase death around the block.
I have a hopeful view of death, and through my art I wish to tear away the structure and taboo of it that we have today, and to explore the oftentimes obsessive ways in which we try and get away from death, a theory known as Terror Management.
Star Corpse
![There is a large lithograph print on a sheet of white paper, slightly obscuring it is a long sheet of hanging cheesecloth.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2023-05/lucy-stevenson-image-1_0.jpg?itok=ReAQ6TVf)
Nuclear Power
![Two large MDF sheets with two figures laser cut into them. On the left there is a knight in a suit of armour from the 15th century. He is holding a flamberge, a type of sword with an undulating blade. On the right, there is a figure in a hazmat suit referenced from the same suits worn during the Chernobyl disaster. He is also holding a flamberge.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2023-05/lucy-stevenson-image-2%20%282%29.jpg?itok=mv0LBV-K)
Ouroboros
![There is a hanging circular piece of wood with the middle carved out. Wrapped around the top of it there is a rusty chain affixing it to the ceiling, which is off camera.](http://cdn-acquia.dundee.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/student_work_desktop_1440w/public/2023-05/lucy-stevenson-image-3.jpg?itok=a7kD3loo)