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Lucy Baxandall
Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker and book artist based at
Kingsgate Workshops Trust in London. She has worked as a financial
journalist, jewellery designer/maker, translator and teacher of
French, German and art in the UK and the USA.
Lucy lived in Chicago from 1997 to 2007 and holds an MFA in
Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College
Chicago.
From 2008 to 2011, she was a teacher and artist in residence at
John Mason School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Since returning to
London, she has taught at the London Centre for Book Arts, and now
teaches 2D and 3D papermaking at Morley College. She also runs
papermaking and book arts workshops for groups and individuals at
her studio, around the UK and in the Middle East, and translates
for academic publications.
Her raw materials for papermaking include plant fibres, and
recycled cotton and linen fabrics. Much of her work is inspired by
geological formations, as she explores human attempts to control
uncontrollable forces.