LUCY MCRAE

Lucy McRae was born in 1979 in London, United Kingdom. She lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was trained as a classical ballet dancer and interior designer.

Lucy McRae is a body architect and artist who is fascinated by the relationship between humans and technology. She combines science with imagination. She creates multimedia art pieces using the human body as the canvas. She is inspired by architecture and fashion. Her art challenges convention in film, experimental art, fashion and body art.

I love the sculptural elements that arise within McRae’s work. Her art is similar to the body suites I have previously been inspired by. This idea of creating sculptural forms surrounding the body could easily work with my concept.

The body suits that I aim to create myself are meant to symbolize the representation of what people feel inside.  I believe Lucy also aimed to achieve this with her shoots of her body suits. When I create my body suit I want to capture lots of different angles and perspectives of the subject wearing it so that I clearly demonstrate and represent what I aim to symbolise.