Island Fire 12″ album art!

Check it out! I made the art work for Gemma Ray’s new album Island Fire, it’s out on Bronzerat Records on 12″ clear vinyl (and CD too), and it’s an amazing record. Gemma performed at the excellent record store Mr Dead & Mrs Free in Berlin on Record Store Day last Sturday, the place was so packed I couldn’t even squeeze in to see her play, and the store remained super crowded for a while afterwards as everyone lined up to get their copies of the album signed. I have really loved working with Gemma and I hope to collaborate with her again. She’s off to the US in May to play some shows with Ane Brun, so go and see her! Here’s the artwork:

Front!

Gatefold!

Back!

Me peeping through the clear vinyl!

Music Video (re-edit!) – The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child

Earlier this year I posted the US online video release for Kate Miller-Heidke’s “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child” (that version was from her Fatty Gets A Stylist side project with Keir Nutall). Well, now Kate’s new album Nightflight is about to be released and so the video has received a re-edit for the album’s acoustic version of the track, I think it’s a lovely fit!

Animated & directed by Lucy Dyson & Joseph Jensen.

Music Video: Gemma Ray – Rescue Me

 

Joseph Jensen and I directed and animated this music-video for the wonderful Gemma Ray. Rescue Me premiered in the US on NPR, in the UK on DIY, on Rolling Stone in Germany, Tone Deaf in Australia, and it’s also been featured on MTV Iggy and Bust Magazine. Gemma’s new album Island Fire (that I also made the album art for) is out on Bronzerat Records on May 29. It’s an amazing record!

 

    
                  
    

New music video: Kate Miller-Heidke – The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child

Joseph Jensen and I directed, illustrated and animated this music-video for Kate Miller-Heidke /Sony Music last year. The video was released a couple of months ago and has seemingly slipped under the radar. It premiered on NY/Chicago-based online music publication Consequence of Sound and received a nice write up/interpretation there:

From CoS: For the clearest sign of Miller-Heidke’s unique creative worldview, we offer up the video for “The Tiger Inside Will Eat The Child”. Consider it a mix of Hanna, The Neverending Story and Where the Wild Things Are, a mish-mash of pop culture tidbits that sees the young girl hunt and kill animals with a bow before riding off into the sunset on her magical winged-tiger/spirit guide. It’s a plot from a bad acid trip for sure, but it succinctly demonstrates Miller-Heidke’s blend of the quaint and the bizzare.

    
    
    
    
    

APPLIED PHLEBOTINUM Group Exhibition

"Lucy Dyson, Woman, 2011"

“Woman”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011


APPLIED PHLEBOTINUM

An exhibition of works by Robbie DIXON, Lucy DYSON and Thomas JEPPE

Curated by Andrew Tetzlaff and Julian White

Upstairs at the Napier,
210 Napier st Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Opening: 6-8pm Thursday Nov 3, 2011
Showing: Nov 3 – Nov 24, 2011
Supported by the City of Yarra

From Upstairs at the Napier’s website: 

Phlebotinum is a word used by screenwriters and authors to describe any inexplicable scientific or mystical force that arises or is applied to a story in order to propel the plot forward without unnecessary fuss. It is a flux capacitor, a door that shuts in Paris and opens in New York, an underwater super-submarine. The idea of phlebotinum isn’t so different from the crossed wires of a dream, those strange and perhaps subtle conveniences that belie reality.

Without being to didactic, this exhibition proposes a practical application of this narrative device through art making. Paintings, sculpture and collage act as both a commentary on the idea, as well as a realization of it. Do not touch the artwork, lest you end up back in twenty thousand leagues in the future with mutant dinosaur babies to wrestle.” 


Here is some new work I have made (including the image above), some of these pieces will feature in the show, :

"Servo, Lucy Dyson, 2011"

“Servo”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011

"Untitled #1, Lucy Dyson, 2011"

“Untitled #1”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011

"Untitled #2, Lucy Dyson, 2011"

 “Untitled #2”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011

"Untitled #3, Lucy Dyson, 2011"

“Untitled #3”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011

"Untitled #4, Lucy Dyson, 2011"

“Untitled #4”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011

"Untitled #5, Lucy Dyson, 2011"

“Untitled #5”
Paper collage © L Dyson, 2011

New music video: Still Corners – Cuckoo

Here is my latest music video, Cuckoo by Still Corners. I love this band, it was such a pleasure to work with them again. The video was released last week and has been well received online. It has featured on PitchforkPortable.tv and Urban Outfitters, just to name a few. Cuckoo came out on 7″ a month or so back, and is from the band’s début album Creatures of an Hour, which will be out on Sub Pop, October 11.

Directed by Lucy Dyson
DoP Joseph Jensen
Editor/FX/Grade James Littlemore
Make-up/Wardrobe Alannah Ashworth