I recently made this music video for Jonathan Jeremiah’s beautiful single Wildfire. The video was released in February and was created by combining some really lovely stop-motion paper animation by Joseph Jensen with my usual collage style animation. My original pitch for the video was a super technicolour sci-fi narrative that unfolded around a volcano spewing weird vibes, but after watching through my previous work Jonathan was really drawn to a black and white animation I made for Luluc many years ago, which was a straight-up homage to Busby Berkeley, so taking that as a starting-point we ended up with this, which I definitely think turned out to be a much better fit to the song than my original volcano idea.
Here is something new I made for Gemma Ray! I originally built a small-scale rotating stage on a lazy susan, intending to use an early rough version of this animation/motion graphic as a guide for a stop-motion idea I had. I thought my mini rotating stage was awesome (and so did Gemma), but eventually I had to admit the project would probably end up taking me a year to make (and I still have projects from a year ago that I really need to finish), so I scaled back and voila! The Wheel is from Gemma’s excellent album Milk For Your Motors out through Bronze Rat.
A couple of weeks ago my latest music video premiered over at The Huffington Post!
It’s Ray LaMontagne’s first ever music video, the Grammy awarded musician was very cool to work for and had some really nice things to say to the HuffPo about my work:
“I first came across Lucy Dyson’s work through the video for Gemma Ray’s lovely song ‘Rescue Me.’ I was hooked immediately. Genius. I was instantly taken with her Terry Gilliam-esque use of layered, ragged cut-out images. To me that was the anchor. A familiar place for my imagination to leap from. But very quickly you realize that the narrative is taking you somewhere that you didn’t expect. It feels like you’re on a roller coaster in some weird circus of the psychedelic burlesque. And yet, underneath all that strange and beautiful imagery there’s this sense that she is truly emotionally invested in the storytelling. To me, it’s like she can see within a song some hidden fourth dimension, a dimension that you didn’t even know existed until she pulls aside the curtain and invites you in.”
Here is the video:
I also made an animated teaser for the song leading up to the single release, which you can watch here:
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!
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.
Last week was cool, Joe and I won Best Animation in the SoundKILDA music video competition for this animation!
And The Design Files published this profile and interview with me.
The below piece was featured in the interview, it is one of my new collages and it will be part of my upcoming Berlin solo exhibition at Das Gift June 29.
A couple of weeks ago my latest music video 
