Lucy Skaer

Lucy Skaer (born 1975) is a contemporary English artist who works with sculpture, film, painting, and drawing.

Skaer is a member of the Henry VIII’s Wives[1] artist collective, and has exhibited a number of works with the group.

[3] Lucy Skaer's works often depicts relationships between abstraction and the direct material nature of objects.

[4] Skaer's work has had a particularly strong engagement with images and historical objects depicting archaeology, ecology, the English landscape, British Empire, and Neolithic architecture as her 2008 installation, The Siege.

Skaer has made a number of 16mm films with the British artist Rosalind Nashashibi including Flash in the Metropolitan in 2006, which depicts the artifacts and artworks of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as they appeared in a dimmed light of the museum interrupted by the flashes of a strobe.