Lucy Andrews—Earthly Remains

Pallas Projects/Studios are pleased to present Lucy Andrews—Earthly Remains, the fifth exhibition of our 2025 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Lucy Andrews makes sculptures and site-specific installations. She is interested in the meeting of natural and human - made systems, and the places where those categories break down. Her work proposes a dynamic materiality which moves between the organic and inorganic, architectural and geological, grown and made. 

Earthly Remains is concerned with the idea of architecture as porous, volatile, and constantly in process. A building is a slippery interface between the ground it stands on, and the bodies it hosts. The exhibition features kinetic elements, found objects and architectural interventions that describe traces of humans and of other forms of life. The artist is drawn to materials that amass or disintegrate over time, and in this body of work she combines lint, dust, hair and fungus with domestic and architectural fragments in various states of activity and instability.

The image accompanying this text is from a series of photographs of urban sinkholes, taken by Andrews in Brussels. She is fascinated by these moments of rupture in the fabric of the visible world and views the phenomena as an exchange. Driven by an excess of human activity (and a wetter climate) the earth below gives a response to the act of construction.  It stops being a passive victim and asserts its non-compliance. The motif of the sinkhole is referred to within the exhibition in various iterations.

The artist’s preoccupation with disrupting frontiers between inside and out is echoed in the way the exhibition’s components were gathered, such as preserving the bodies of insects who flew into her studio and died. While these organic specimens were collected indoors, various domestic objects were found on the street, expelled from their interior settings, showing traces of weather and water. With works that feature windows and drains, attention is drawn to openings and cavities. There is a sense of things temporarily holding together or left ajar. The building leaks, gurgles, pulses, renews itself. 

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Biography:

Lucy Andrews was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and studied at NCAD, Dublin and The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She has exhibited at The Complex, IMMA, The RHA, and The Leitrim Sculpture Centre. This year her work was shown as part of the Hear Here festival, by STUK, Leuven and she is about to start a residency at FSAS, Dublin.

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Artist-Initiated Projects at Pallas Projects/Studios is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of 8 x 3-week exhibitions taking place from March-November 2025. This unique programme of funded, artist-initiated projects selected via open call is highly accessible to artists, with a focus on early career, emerging artists and recent graduates. Projects are supplemented with artists' talks, texts, workshops or performances, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.