Summer

August, 2013May, 2017 | lucydyson

Here are some new collages I have been making over the last couple of months, an ongoing summer series…

“Toucan” 25 x 33 cm Paper collage © L Dyson

“The Big Cat” 28.5 x 34 cm Paper collage © L Dyson

Untitled (catpocalypse) 27.5 x 36 cm 2013. Paper collage © Lucy Dyson

Eight Of Legs
Paper collage © L Dyson
22.8 x 16.5 cm

Camping
Paper collage © L Dyson
21.5 x 24 cm

Hummingbirds
Paper collage © L Dyson
27 x 30.3 cm

Mountain
Paper collage © L Dyson
20.8 x 20.8 cm

Sleeping Beauty
Paper collage © L Dyson
17 x 17 cm

Woman (red flowers)
Paper collage © L Dyson
22.8 x 16.5 cm

Floating In Space
Paper collage © L Dyson
26 x 17 cm

Dolphin Girl
Paper collage © L Dyson
17 x 17 cm

Music Video: Kate Miller-Heidke “Ride This Feeling”

July, 2013May, 2019 | lucydyson

Kate Miller-Heidke “Ride This Feeling”
Directed by Lucy Dyson
Animated by Joseph Jensen
Sony BMG

Music Video: Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody “I Want You Right Now”

July, 2013November, 2016 | lucydyson

Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody “I Want You Right Now”
Directed & produced by Lucy Dyson
DoPs (UK) Joseph Jensen (USA/Co-director) Elliott Sellers
Starring Jessica Paré (Mad Men)
Goodnight Records

This music video was released a couple of months ago, I’ve been terrible at updating things over here!

neues kunstwerk

LucyDyson_Untitled(SheCameFromThePond)2013

May, 2013June, 2025 | lucydyson

Here is some art I’ve been making in Berlin in between projects this year. I’ve actually been meaning to post most of this work for a while, but animating (and painting) has been taking up all my waking hours, and most of my nights. The animation I am currently working on requires a lot of fast painted scenes (of very simple and fun things to paint, like patterns and splotches), most of which end up getting torn to shreds. It has been good to not feel precious about the work, maybe I should do a post on the paintings before they are all destroyed…

Anyway, all these collages have been similarly made the old fashioned way: cut and paste, no Photoshop, just found images (mostly from second hand books and magazines I collect, and kind people give me), glue, a scalpel knife and the odd piece of double-sided tape. For anyone who is interested, the originals will be for sale at some point, I’ll probably continue working towards an exhibition first though.

Paper collage
26.7 x 20.5 cm

Paper collage
26.5 x 18.5 cm

Paper collage
27 x 22 cm

Paper collage
22.8 x 16 cm

Paper collage
18 x 23 cm

Paper collage
27.5 x 21 cm

Paper collage
25 x 17 cm

Paper collage
18 x 13.5 cm

Paper collage
23 x 23 cm

Paper Collage
27.3 x 21 cm

Paper Collage
27 x 21cm

Paper collage
15 x 29.5 cm

Paper collage
30 x 23 cm

Lola Magazine

April, 2013November, 2016 | lucydyson

Some of my work recently ran in Lola, a Brazilian magazine. One of my pieces (Girls, Girls Girls) was used to illustrate the editor’s letter, “Todo mundo é caricaTo!” (Everyone Is Ridiculous), and the other accompanied a short piece on dual personality disorder / neuroticism.

Music Video: Saskwatch – I Get Lonely

March, 2013November, 2016 | lucydyson

And following on from my last post, here is the music video for “I Get Lonely” by Saskwatch!

Directed and animated by Joseph Jensen and yours truly.

7″ Artwork: Saskwatch – I Get Lonely

March, 2013June, 2025 | lucydyson

9 piece Soul/R&B Melbourne band Saskwatch have released their new single I Get Lonely on 7″ through Northside Records, the song was recorded and produced by Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control), and it is excellent. I was lucky enough to work with the band again (I did the cover art for their 2012 album “Leave It All Behind”) and did the cover art for the single, (layout & design by Carl Breitkreuz). Joe and I also made an animated video for the song (which I’ll do a separate post on next), I love working with this band!

Get the 7″ here:http://saskwatch.bandcamp.com/album/i-get-lonely-7

Untitled Birds

January, 2013May, 2017 | lucydyson

I wasn’t really thinking about anything (other than other work I should have been doing) when I made this yesterday, but the meaning behind it was pretty clear to my boyfriend Joe. Obviously I’m still feeling guilty about throwing away that pigeon egg*. Whoa. Totally.

*I had a couple of problem pigeons trying to roost on my balcony. It all came to a head about two weeks ago when the pigeon hen laid an egg in a really scrappy nest. I immediately swept up and disposed of the egg, the nest and their unholy pigeon mess before the egg had anytime to develop. The pigeons haven’t returned, which is great, but I still feel bad about throwing out that egg.

Music Video: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Bag Of Bones

January, 2013June, 2025 | lucydyson

Here is the music video for Bag of Bones by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion! Directed and animated by Joseph Jensen and yours truly. It premiered on Vice Magazine’s music website Noisey, and has also been featured and received cool write ups on Spin, Papermag, Stereogum, Clash Music, Elmore Magazine, Exclaim and Bust and many others.

Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Lucy Dyson and Joseph Jensen. Oil projections by Steve Pavlovsky at Liquid Light Lab NYC. 2nd camera (live footage) Anna Steele.

Joe and I have both been big Blues Explosion fans since our early teens, so we were super excited about making this video. We have been lucky to do some work for Gemma Ray and Bronzerat Records since moving to Berlin, so when Andy at Bronzerat (who put out the JSBX’s latest album Meat & Bone) put Jon in touch with us about a video, we leapt at the opportunity. Not only were the Blues Explosion the first band I used my big sister’s ID to go and see play when I was 15 (at The Palace in St Kilda in 1997, since burnt down), but the next day at the crack of dawn, still buzzing from the show, my friends and I went to the ABC TV studios to be part of the under-age live audience for the band’s performance on the Saturday morning tv show Recovery. That Blues Explosion performance ended up making Australian live television history.

You can watch it below and even see me (around the 4:07 mark, wearing a red jacket and sporting ~ a very 90s ~ short bleached hairstyle), with my friend Billy in the “kitchen” area of the television set (we volunteered to do an embarrassing cooking segment on the show). Mid performance, tearing the studio apart, Jon Spencer climbed up on our kitchen bench and kicked cocktail onion juice on us. It was amazing and one of the most exciting performances I saw as a teenager. It also definitely influenced some of the animated bar brawl scene in the Bag Of Bones video.