Before I embark on making one of the drawings used for the project I often make quick visual notes to help me pin point the areas of interest and to help me ‘think around’ the object. These notes are all made very quickly using pen.
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Lucy Lyons
Dr Lucy Lyons is an artist and lecturer in drawing research and painting at City & Guilds of London Art School. Her research investigates drawing as a phenomenological activity that evidences experience and communicates knowledge in medical sciences. Her work is made in medical museums, labs and dissection rooms. Her PhD Delineating Disease: a system for investigating Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, involved using drawing as an activity to investigate the breadth of experiences of FOP, a rare disease where connective tissue turns to bone. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Medical Museion at University of Copenhagen her research investigated issues relating to ageing in a medical museum context through drawing practice.
She is currently artist in residence at Barts Pathology Museum QMUL where she coordinates the Drawing Parallels project.
