Design and Art Australia Online

Lucy Forsberg works predominantly with new media, assemblage and sculpture to examine socio-political issues within the Australian landscape. Forsberg, who spent their formative years on a cattle farm in rural Australia, is transfixed with the contrasting elements of natural and man-made environments. With a keen interest in Australian art history, Lucy frequently employs appropriation in their work as a way to communicate with art that has previously considered the Australian land. More recently, their art practice has been informed by ecological economics, a research area that addresses the intersection of environmental, social and economic systems. Their artworks examine how these systems; in particular the processes of the resource economy have contributed to the contemporary urbanised Australian landscape.

​Alongside their artistic practice Lucy is Co-Director of Brisbane Artist-run initiative Cut Thumb.

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Date written:

2016

Last updated:

2017