Lucy Allinson | Jungle of Birds

Artist Statement

Lucy is a multidisciplinary artist who works across sound, installation, painting, sculpture and photography. She obtains an undergrad in Fine Arts from Monash University (2018) and an Honours in Fine Arts majoring in Sound (2019). Her art practice focuses on both sound and painting, and her research as an acoustic ecologist stems from studying the effects of noise pollution especially on national and urban parklands. Her paintings are of similar course, visually representing, geomapping, colours and formations from the places she records. These works are representations of Lorne Otways, a place that Lucy has been field studying over the last five-plus years. The field recordings are various captures of trails that are close by to Lorne’s town area, Lucy hopes that her field recordings can become an archive of sound and education. “Let's not overwhelm our rainforests or they will be consumed, loud and forgotten, with the extinction of so many species.” 

Artist Bio

Lucy Allinson is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sound, installation, painting, sculpture and photography. Her practice explores the effects of human impact and urbanisation and how it has marked and altered the acoustic ecology of national and urban parklands. Over the last eight years, Lucy has been investigating areas throughout Geelong and the Surfcoast bioregions, exploring the different levels of noise pollution but also the natural beauty that these areas orchestrate. Her practice explores the balance of harmful soundscapes to also capturing, the acoustic aura that birds and other species create. With the time spent field recording, Lucy spends her time painting, drawing and photographing these landscapes, she finds that an image of one space cannot tell the true story without the sounds as well. 

Lucy completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at Monash University (2018) and Honours degree at RMIT (2019). After finishing Art School Lucy moved back to Geelong and in 2021 landed an Art Residency at Platform Arts and a job at Geelong Gallery. After finishing her residency she soon started working as Head Gallery Technician by mid 2022. Lucy works as a Gallery Tech, Interior Painter, Artist Assistant and Front of House Officer through various galleries and museums, regularly at Geelong Gallery, Platform Arts and ACMI.  Lucy has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Melbourne and Geelong. She loves that she is involved in so many different art spaces that has allowed for continued conversation.