LONDON.- Hales has announced their representation of British artist Lucy Stein in collaboration with Galerie Gregor Staiger. Stein’s work will be included in Hales’ upcoming presentation at Frieze London, with her solo show, La Muñeca, opening at Hales London in November. Stein was recently included in exhibitions at RAMM, Exeter and at the Eden Project, Cornwall. Her solo exhibition  Wet Room  toured from Spike Island, Bristol to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill UK (2021/22). In 2024, Stein will have a solo exhibition and performance at Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland and a residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca.

Lucy Stein  (b.1979, Oxford, UK) lives and works in St Just, West Cornwall, UK. She received a BA in Painting from The Glasgow School of Art in 2004, Scotland and went on to study at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2004-2006).

Across a twenty-year practice, Stein has developed an expansive body of conceptual work rooted in painting which embraces performance, film, writing and collaborative projects. Building upon rich painterly traditions and contemporary culture, Stein creates a world of stories. Narratives and imagery, which appear in her work, are drawn from Stein’s study of psychoanalysis, feminist theory, histories and personal experience.

Embodying the concept of the unstable narrator, Stein creates her own mythology where different painterly styles coexist. She shifts selves, becoming ever more expressive, allowing herself to perform different roles. In layered explorations, Stein creates ‘different levels of consciousness, so you can have infinite depths of pictorial space working together.’ Paintings speak to esoteric culture and medieval tableaus, extending from the canvas to hand painted ceramic tile works.

Lucy Stein (b.1979, Oxford, UK) lives and works in St Just, West Cornwall, UK. She received a BA in Painting from The Glasgow School of Art in 2004, Scotland and went on to study at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2004-2006).

Across a twenty-year practice, Stein has developed an expansive body of conceptual work rooted in painting which embraces performance, film, writing and collaborative projects. Building upon rich painterly traditions and contemporary culture, Stein creates a world of stories. Narratives and imagery, which appear in her work, are drawn from Stein's study of psychoanalysis, feminist theory, histories and personal experience.