Lucy McGeown www.lucymcgeown.tumblr.com

Lucy completed her foundation at Camberwell College of Arts before achieving a first class Ba(Hons) in Fine Art at the University of East London. Since graduating in 2011 she has exhibited regularly in both solo and group exhibitions and in 2013 became the Arts manager at a local art space, Number 57 in Lewisham.

“As an artist my primary concern is to understand how something can be presented, how an object, image or sculpture can be made to be seen. I take found material as a starting point to explore the ways in which information can be transposed from incidental pattern and mark into new language and meaning through a process of editing and recontextualizing.”

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Luisa-Maria MacCormack www.luisamariam.com

Luisa-Maria MacCormack studied Textiles Design at London College of Fashion before tunring to Fine-Art and studying at the Royal Drawing School in 2014. She is currently studying for her MAFA at City and Guilds of London Art School.

A founding member of the London Drawing Group, Luisa teaches drawing in venues across London, as well as exhibiting regularly in solo and group shows. Luisa works across a range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Her work challenges and explores the difficult questions surrounding our gendered creative histories; re-authoring works from Art History created in a patriarchal system. Her paintings and drawings are often duplicitous, ambiguous and interested in forcing the viewer to question their own perception of the world around them. Luisa-Maria’s work explores issues of spirituality, supernatural and mythic traditions, sexuality, the body, belief and the evolution of ritual. Her interests are wide-ranging and encompass aspects of human history, science, religion and culture.

Luisa also heads up our Feminist Art History department and lectures in Art, Mythology and Comparative Religion from a feminist perspective

follow Luisa-Maria on Instagram @luisamariamfineart

Frances Stanfield. www.francesstanfield.com

Frances is a co-founder of LDG and an artist whose practice is rooted in drawing and printmaking. She has recently shown at The Ra Summer Exhibition 2021. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2019,2020 &2021 and a Solo Show at Deptford Contemporary 2021. She is the author of two books - The Drawing Ideas Book and The Printmaking Ideas Book which can be found in most major UK bookshops and online including the Tate bookshop, Waterstones and Foyles.

Frances studied Illustration at University College Falmouth after her Foundation Degree at Portsmouth University. She completed The Drawing Intensive Scholarship with The Royal Drawing School and worked as a Restoration Artist alongside maintaining her own practice. Frances ‘ work plays with ideas of power-play around gender, sexuality and the presentation of imagery made for public consumption.

You can see more of this work on her instagram @frances.stanfield or website: www.francesstanfield.com

Her first exhibition with London Drawing Group was called "Porn on Pause" at Lewisham Arthouse. “ After showing this work and sharing ideas and reactions, 'Porn on Pause' has led me to thinking about the wider picture of intimacy and the online - how people choose to connect with others through alternate realities and the effect of this on tangible relationships and our sense of self. Does it disconnect us from our day to day relationships or offer freedom to further individual exploration? Does it distort ideas of intimacy or enhance and intensify it?"

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