Photo by Kim Landy
BIO
Lucy Roleff is an artist and musician. She lives and works in Melbourne.
Art –
Lucy Roleff’s practice explores notions of beauty, purpose and the nature of desire. Her paintings are essentially about the act of looking - the internal processes that begin when we look at something we aspire to, or in which we recognise ourselves.
Lucy is particularly interested in the space between domestic familiarity and a sense of grandeur, or otherworldliness. Here there is both escapism and a meditation on daily, accessible pleasures. These ideas stem from the historical purpose of paintings as portals for daydreaming and fantasy, even when depicting the most ordinary of spaces.
Lucy’s work is held in a number of private collections across Australia and overseas. She has been a finalist for multiple art prizes including The Blake Prize, the A.M.E. Bale Art Prize and the Len Fox Painting Prize.
Music –
Born to a German opera singer father and Maltese mother, Lucy enjoyed a childhood immersed in European classical music, storytelling and folk styles.
Lucy has composed for, and had her music featured in, a number of short films and television shows for clients including The Australian Ballet, insitu.reviews, Kuwaii and ABC Television.
Her second record Left Open in a Room was nominated for the Australian Music Prize and is out now on Lost & Lonesome Records and Little Lake Records (AU) and Oscarson Records (EU)