20:59
2021
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
175.4 × 305.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by July Cao, 2022
© Lucy Bull
Gallery location
Members' Lounge
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Lucy Bull’s visceral and kinetic style of abstract painting comprises large-scale multi-layered compositions that draw on a range of art historical styles and movements, from Impressionism to Surrealism, and employ an equally diverse set of techniques, from automatism – a process of creating linework by accessing the unconscious mind – to grattage – a process of scratching away fresh paint to create texture and line. The immersive scale of her canvases invites the viewer to become lost in their sensory qualities, evoking the Surrealist tendency to engage with the subconscious. Of her process, Bull has said ‘when I’m making them, there’s this dance between subconscious, intuitive, spontaneous mark making, and then more reflective, meditative honing [sic] in, a pulling out of different sensations or associations’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Los Angeles, California, United States
Inscription
inscribed in black crayon on reverse u.r.: LB 2021
Accession Number
2022.792
Department
Contemporary Art