Lucy Dundon

Artist

I'm a fibre and textile artist drawn to the tactile world of fibre, cloth, and paper. If I can coil, twine, loop, knot, stitch, or shape a material into a form, I'm usually exploring its potential. My work is deeply rooted in memory, a sense of place, and the quiet traces of time. Everything begins with the materials themselves - I choose them carefully because I want their inherent stories and textures to be at the heart of what I create.

While I mostly work with natural resources, I don't let them limit me. For me, it's about finding a balance between the materials, the environment that inspires them, and the techniques that bring a narrative to life. I've always leaned into the philosophy of wabi-sabi - the beauty of things imperfect, weathered, humble, and incomplete. By letting materials speak and evolve organically, I hope to capture an honest connection between my work and the environment it represents.

Current Body of Work

Gathering Time

Upcoming Exhibition

Gathering Time explores memory, slow living, and the quiet rituals of gardening and tending that connect us to the land. The work is shaped by Lucy's mother's stories of a post-war family garden, where making do, community sharing, and sustainability were simply part of everyday life. It reflects on what it means to tend to what we have and to honour the materials around us.

Working with a tactile palette of found objects, rusted fragments, natural fibres, and earth pigments, Lucy has created an archive of touch and time. The collection moves from the domestic stillness of Eggs and Cloth to the rugged, salvaged textures of Bound Forms, reflecting a way of living where things were made from scratch and used fully.

The work invites a slower way of looking, finding beauty in the discarded and in the quiet work of repair, where nothing is wasted and care shapes daily life.

Venue and details coming soon

Memory. Material. Place.

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Lucy's work is centered on the tactile: the feel of earth pigments on linen, the pull of a natural flax cord, and the slow rhythm of a hand stitch. To Lucy, materials are never just supplies - they carry their own stories. Whether coiling, looping, or binding found objects, her process is an act of "tending"; a way to anchor a sense of place and capture the quiet traces left by time and memory.

Creating tactile works that feel lived and held.

She grew up in a world where the handmade was part of the fabric of daily life. Watching her mother's hands always in motion - sewing, embroidering, and knitting - taught Lucy to value the slow, intentional pace of making. This connection to fibre is ancestral, stretching back to a grandfather who imported fine Irish linens and a lineage of milliners, seamstresses and knitters.

Decades of psychological practice eventually gave way to a new chapter for Lucy, sparked by a persistent inner urge to create and work with her hands. Her work as a psychologist has been a continuous search for deeper meaning - an openness and a constant curiosity to ask "why." She brings that same inquisitive nature to her studio, exploring the hidden narratives within form, texture, and the marks left behind.

Her art education has been a self-directed journey, studying with renowned artists such as Harriett Goodall, Tim Johnson, Lissa Hunter, Debbie Lyddon and Claire Benn. Today, she serves as an Ambassador for Take Two Art, an online platform connecting a global community of artists working across fibre, textiles, painting and more.

Current Body of Work - Gathering Time

Gathering Time explores memory, slow living, and the quiet rituals of gardening and tending that connect us to the land. The work is shaped by Lucy's mother's stories of a post-war family garden, where making do, community sharing, and sustainability were simply part of everyday life. It reflects on what it means to tend to what we have and to honour the materials around us.

Working with a tactile palette of found objects, rusted fragments, natural fibres, and earth pigments, Lucy has created an archive of touch and time. The collection moves from the domestic stillness of Eggs and Cloth to the rugged, salvaged textures of Bound Forms, reflecting a way of living where things were made from scratch and used fully.

The work invites a slower way of looking, finding beauty in the discarded and in the quiet work of repair, where nothing is wasted and care shapes daily life.

Venue and details coming soon

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Works

Gallery

From the earth: materials, processes, and the life behind the work

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Naturally dyed fibre skeins held in hand

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Available Works

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All works are made by hand

New works emerge in their own time

Wall Work

Ancient Ground

$2,900
Dimensions: 86 x 79 x 6 cm
Materials: Plant fibres, silk, waxed linen, seed pods, natural dyes, and beeswax.
Framing: Raw Tasmanian oak with gallery-grade glass.

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North Head has long been sacred ground, a place where the Manly Cove people of the Gayamagal lived, gathered, and cared for Country for thousands of years. When the 2020 bushfires swept through the Sanctuary, they took with them much of what had grown in the shadow of that deep history. But fire, here, is also a language the land knows. This work traces that slow return: the scorched earth softening, seed pods cracking open, new growth threading through what was lost. It is a meditation on resilience, on the enduring memory held in the soil, and on a place that has survived far more than we will ever fully understand.

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Wall Work · Cloth & Stitch

Shadow Line

$2,000
Dimensions: TBA
Materials: Cotton duck, soya milk, ground pigment, silk and linen thread.
Framing: Raw Tasmanian oak float frame with black shadow gap.

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Manly's ocean is part of home for so many of us, but shark nets have always cast a strange shadow over it for me. This stitched textile piece explores that tension between feeling safe and interfering with a marine ecosystem that existed long before us. Are shark nets protecting us, or removing an important part of the ocean's balance? A quiet reflection on fear, coexistence, and the wildness just beyond the shoreline.

Sculptural

Sculpture

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