BECKY LYON
Becky Lyon is a London born and based English-Jamaican artist using art to connect with and generate insights about ecology. She is interested in how we build relationships with our environments close to home from our neighbourhoods to our domestic spaces to our guts.
She uses art practices to elicit insights from nature about how to live well alongside each other and explore how our socio-political worlds are and could be shaped. These ideas manifest in diverse, often easily portable formats as installations, sculpture, photographic objects, sensory artifacts, handmade moving images and text. Her physical work is activated by conversations and events that bring the audience closer into dialogue with the topics and sites of the work.
She runs Ground Provisions, an artist-led ‘schooled-by-the-forest’ for grown ups; the Squishy Sessions research collective (since April 2021) and The Department of Artecology - a peer-to-peer research club imagining new types of ecological stewardship practice. She is a volunteer Ranger for London National Park City (LNPC), reconnecting Londoners with the ecology of the city, amplifying grass roots activities and hands-on caretaking sites across North West London.
She has an MA Art & Science from Central Saint Martins, an MA Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths University of London and side-hustles as a consultant and trends researcher for global brands.
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