2024–2027 PhD | Lucie McLaughlin
In this text artist, writer and PhD candidate Lucie McLaughlin introduces the project Sites of Art Writing: Tonalities in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland which she began in October 2024. This project is a collaboration between Lucie, CCA DLD and Kingston School of Art, funded by technē, working with the Contemporary Art Research Group.
Lucie grew up in Belfast in the era of turquoise dolphin necklaces with cords instead of chains. She now lives between places. She has fair hair and often wears oversize t-shirts. She really loves snorkeling and pickled onion crisps. Like most people involved in the arts, she has worked a wide variety of jobs throughout her time as an artist and writer, including retail assistant, gallery assistant, drinks promotions in nightclubs, cleaner, admin officer, concierge, model, waitress, bartender, event staff at weddings, invigilator, teacher.
She is interested in alternative forms of description, in order to disrupt pre-existing ideas of success and value. She collects postcards and cooks elaborate meals to unwind. Ferries are her favourite mode of transportation, other than books. She is currently learning to drive.
Banner image: digital collage, Lucie McLaughlin, 2024
‘Threshold 1, 2 and 3’ 35mm photographs, Lucie McLaughlin, 2023–2024
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