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My work springs from the following concerns and ideas:

• The accumulation of memory through the imagery of geological sedimentation. The role of language in this process.
• Definitions of home and community, and the influence of landscape on identity.
• The containment of emotional processes so that they are visible but crystallised, even fossilised.

The media I use are handmade and reclaimed/recycled paper, traditional bookbinding materials, found objects, image transfer, various surface treatments and text.

Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker, bookbinder and installation artist. She recently returned to the UK after ten years in Chicago, where she graduated in 2005 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College. She was previously a jewellery designer/maker in Belfast and is also a teacher of French and German. She has exhibited her artist's books, paper-based sculpture and installation work in the USA.

View more work at Lucy's web site.