CONTACT: lucy.pawlak "at" gmail.com
BIOGRAPHY:
Lucy Pawlak is a troublemaker whose body of work focuses on making room for improvisation and play within structure. She deploys a variety of mediums (screen-writing, workshops, games, performance, theatre, drawing) to design structures that address of how and why we adhere to systems and what the possibilities of breaking with patterns might offer. One day she hopes to cease speaking about herself in the third person.
Lucy Pawlak is a Londoner, she was a member of the Lux Associate Artists Program 2011 (London), studied Painting at the Royal College of Art (London) and Cinematography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School (Lodz, Poland).
Performances and screenings include: The Jumex Museum (Mexico City), Whitstable Biennial (UK), Videonale (Bonn, Germany) The Showroom, Hollybush Gardens, ICA and National Film Theatre (London), Art Metropole (Toronto), Fogo Island Arts (Canada), Karma International (Zurich), The Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Kettles Yard (Cambridge), The Palais Kabelwerk (Vienna), Zentrum Paul Klee (Switzerland).
Collaborative Screenwriting:
Her recent screenwriting collaboration, The Hole In The Fence, co-written with director, Joaquin Del Paso, premiered in Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival 2021 where it was awarded Bisato d'Oro. The film is currently on festival circuits, screenings have included London International Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival (Mexico), Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Turkey).
More recently in 2020, Pawlak has collaborated with director Gabriel Herrera on writing his first feature film, Ana Doesn’t Want to be Seen Dancing. Subsequently, we received funding from FIDECINE and EFICINE, the film will go into production in May 2022. Gabriel’s most recent short film premiered at Berlin International Film Festival 2021.
Key Commissions:
Holding, film funded by The Stuart Croft Foundation
Something in the Way Performance, Index Book Fair @ Jumex Museum/Mexico City
Lost Beat Officer 2 online EBAY curatorial project and book: #EXTRANGE
How Do I Look? Workshop, Videonale/Bonn
Lost Beat Officer performance, Whitstable Biennial
W.D.U.L.R.E., digital art commission, Queens Hall/Newcastle
Timeshare performance for Art Licks Festival/London
HEADMOUNT, livestream performance, Tyneside Cinema/Newcastle
20 True Things Right Here, Right Now, performance, Waterside Contemporary/London
Other Works:
We Eat The Earth / The Earth Eats Us, (film) selected screenings: Videonale/Bonn, Athens Digital Arts Festival, ArtVilnius’17 Contemporary Art Fair
Arriving Without Leaving, (film) Arnolfini/Bristol, Kettles Yard/Cambridge, Videonale/Bonn, TAJ/Bangalore, Central St Martins, Obrera Centro, México City, S1 Gallery, Sheffield, T.A.P./Southend, Art Metropole/Canada, Tyneside Cinema/Newcastle
During Action (film) ICA, London, Wysing Arts Centre Festival/Cambridge, Grand Union/Birmingham, Outpost/Norwich, The Minories/Colchester, Shortwave Cinema/London
The Inspection House (film) Edinburgh Arts Festival, UNAM/México City, National Film Theatre/London, Tyneside Cinema/Newcastle
Other group and solo shows: Hollybush Gardens, Jerwood Contemporary Painters Award, Jerwood Space, Domo Baal, S.L.G./London, Focal Point Gallery/Southend, The Lowry/Manchester, Sommerakademie, Zentrum Paul Klee/Berne, Karma International, Zurich.
Artistic collaborators include: Patrick Staff, Ghislaine Leung, Dawn Mellor, John Strutton, Massimiliano Mallona, Hazel Meyer, Joaquin del Paso, Martin Clark, Adam James, Marenka Gabeler.