“Lucinda Wells began taking photographs from a single window vantage point overlooking the sea in 2012. Shooting only at night she directed her camera at the streetlights obstructing the open space of the sea and sky to reveal incidents of light phenomena that continued to appear and mutate in a symbiotic process of observation and reflection. Taking over 16,000 photographs she focused on the aberrations that most photographers seek to limit and avoid, light, as form and revelation has become the subject of Wells’ interest and investigation.”
Nigel Green
Wells is an artist and explorer of the mysterious inner realms who works mostly experimentally with still and moving images to explore the most fundamental of intervals, The Gap: that one we perceive between us, between time and distance, beginnings and endings, waking and sleeping, knowing and not knowing, birth and death. A meditator for 30+ years, she is interested in ‘The Theory of Everything’ the idea that everything is a manifestation of one thing and the connectedness demonstrated by ‘entanglement’. She is also interested in the potentialities of seeing that is a result of the act of looking and the subsequent ‘observer effect’. Grace Lau suggests she is “as close to artist-as-shaman as the notion suggests, whose work arrests and compels without any clue as to how or why.”
Winner of the Oxford Brookes Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Jerwood Photography Awards, Wells has exhibited widely, receiving commissions for numerous projects and residencies. Having an MA in Photography and a BA (Hons) Fine Art, she has been a Senior Lecturer and a Course Leader in photography, but in 2020 made the decision to focus on her own practice.
