Lucy lives in Glasgow, where she occupies her time as a visual artist, illustrator, and primarily musician. Lucy performs and records with Kenneth Wilson in the band, Trees, as well as in collaboration with other improvisers and musicians. She has just finished her illustration degree at The Glasgow School of Art, where she created a temporary record shop.

“I most recently exhibited a ‘by donation’ cd shop at the Glasgow School of Art degree show, in which all artworks and covers, of which there were 35, were designed, and hand printed by myself in editions of ten. The project began life as an investigation into the phenomena of underground culture and shifted focus to the independent record shop as a pivotal space for the dissemination and exchange of subcultural music and ideas.”

“Record shops are community centres just as much as they are music retailers with individuals reciprocating obscure and treasured information, learning, discussing, dispersing myths and lore. They are places in which access to such coveted knowledge can inspire one in to acting, to quote artist Emma Hedditch, it is this knowledge which “transforms, teaches, and inspires us into acting, making, performances, making and recording sounds”. My hope was that the project could instill the sense of excitement and discovery that I had experienced in record shops, and all that I feel I had learnt and been inspired to do from visiting them.”

Lucy Duncombe and Hanna Tuulikki – Mind Less Mind Full

“The project is a response to the life and works of British experimental film maker, Jane Arden. The results form the basis of an audio visual performance piece scheduled to take place at an exhibition in London, August, 2010, curated by Charlotte Procter.
As musicians, visual artists and illustrators, Hanna and I both have a fascination with the voice and the relationship of sound to image. As vocalists we are drawn towards experimentation both within song structures and free improvisation and this practice is informed by the idea that song can be understood as a sculptural process that finds expression using the materials of the body, and thus, vocal sound making or song as portrait of the self. John Cavanagh on oscillator”

You can see more of Lucy’s work at daphneofthedunes.blogspot.com/ and she can be contacted via lucy-duncombe@hotmail.com