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Bio
Lucy Bucknall is a bronze sculpture artist from the UK now living in Kaiwaka. She works either in phosphor bronze or cast bronze using the lost wax method. The phosphor bronze technique is a unique artform only known by a few. In this method, Lucy welds strips of bronze together, building the piece up from one side to the other to create one-off pieces. Her subject matter is global and political while remaining fervently empathetic in its creation and intent.
Lucy graduated with a BA (Hons) degree from Bath Academy of Art, UK (1987), and settled in New Zealand in 1998. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions and collective shows such as Sculpture on the Gulf Waiheke Island and Sculpture On the Shore Auckland.
In 2009, Lucy won the Peoples’ Choice Award for a meercat piece entitled ‘Special forces on patrol.’ Lucy was selected as a finalist for the Small Sculpture Prize exhibition at Waiheke Island Gallery in 2013. She also won The McConnell Family Supreme Award for Big Man at Sculpture in the Gardens 2011/12 and has work displayed at Brick Bay Vineyard Matakana and Auckland Botanical Gardens. The Big Man sculpture (life-size, one-off bronze) is now on permanent public display outside Lower Hutt City Hospital.