Lucy Simpson
Yuwaalaraay woman and artist Lucy Simpson shares her process and creative inspiration in making Gaay-bidi (big story) for the Powerhouse exhibition, Alchemy.
‘Gaay-bidi/big story began with a feeling of loss and grief and mourning and sadness over the yarn about the bogong moth.’
Lucy Simpson The importance of remaining connected and the role that you play in ensuring things stay connected. You can call this conceptual stuff, you can say it's art, whatever you want to call it. If your hands are busy and you're thinking on those stories and you're able to pass that on in a way, then you play a role in that. But if you don't, what? It's like a weight.
I'm Lucy Simpson. I'm a Yuwaalaraay woman and I live in Sydney and our mob's from north-western New South Wales and just over the Queensland border. We're freshwater women.
I'm a designer and maker, I would say. It's easy for other people to understand you as an artist but I don't really identify in that way. I make, and I find different ways to connect with and share story. So, that can take lots of different forms and materials and processes. I think the thing I love about what I do is that it’s process led or process driven. While there's a lot of planning that goes into the work, I'll never really know what it's going to look like until it's done. And you know when you see, you know.
