Inspired by the highly decorated taxicabs found in India and China this bitter-sweet installation turned Taxi Gallery into a place of remembrance and commemoration. Using hand knitted flowers, it was a quiet celebration of a certain kind of Englishness; a passion for knitting everything from dolls to toilet roll hats, the floral display of English funerals (teddy bear wreaths, wreaths that say ‘mum’), and the quintessential London black cab.

Lucy says “I am interested in the interior of the taxi as a powerful psychological space, an enclosure conducive to active imagining in much the same way as the nineteenth century cemeteries were used by poets and romantics to reflect upon the passage of time. In this, now, forever stationary, black cab I wish to evoke a place of remembrance, of all the journeys it once made.”

Lucy provided a knitting pattern for a workshop coinciding with the opening of Purly Gates and available here as a downloadable pdf

Lucy Willow

Lucy Willow graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2003, with First Class Honours in Fine Art. She is interested in making temporary site-specific work using mundane materials, such as dust, to form highly ornate large-scale rugs. Recent work has explored materials such as icing sugar and knitting in a visually rich and excessive way to entice the senses before revealing a slightly darker and more sinister subject matter.

Recent exhibitions include:HOUSE, Falmouth Art Projects, Truro, 2004 FIELD OF VISION, PALP, Site- specific installations, Tremenheere, Penzance, 2002 , FIDEM, Monnaie de Paris, 2002 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2002 Canary Wharf Window Gallery, London , 2001 Cork Vision Centre, Cork 2001, Oriel Henry Thomas Gallery, Camarthen, 2001.