Lucy Hill
Dr
Contact Details
Assistant Professor Visual Art
School of Arts Education and Movement
DCU Institute of Education
St Patrick's Campus
Drumcondra Dublin 9
T:01 7009104
E:lucy.hill@dcu.ie
W:www.lucyhill.ie
Lucy is a visual artist and an academic. She joined DCU Institute of Education, School of Arts Education and Movement in January 2023. Prior to this, she lectured part-time at the National College of Art and Design School of Education, including co-design and delivery (with Dr. Andrew Wall) of the research methods module for Ph.D. students. Lucy’s Ph.D. in art education was awarded by the NCAD in 2021 for which she was awarded an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship, and a Thomas Dammann Memorial Award. Her supervisor was Professor Dervil Jordan, and her thesis proposed a posthuman ‘Ethico-Aesthetic’ paradigm for arts-based research with children. Her thesis was awarded joint runner-up in the Peter Lang International Young Scholars in Education Award. During her studies, she attended the Professor Rosi Braidotti Summer School at Utrecht University, titled ‘Posthuman Ethics in the Anthropocene’ where she presented and participated in panel discussions. Her academic writing has been published by Sage, Routledge, Springer, and Intellect Books. She was an invited speaker at the International Art Education Week at Seoul Museum of Modern Art, Korea and while there, she delivered experimental art workshops for South Korean teachers in Busan City. In her art practice, she has exhibited widely in both solo and selected group shows. She has won several awards for her art practice, including residencies and four public art commissions. Lucy was the inaugural Professor John Coolahan early years artist in residence at The Ark, a dedicated cultural centre for children in Dublin. Lucy worked as a Creative Associate with The Arts Council / Creative Ireland Creative Schools program from 2018-2021. She has also worked as an Associate Artist with Helium Arts, an Irish charity working through the arts with children living with long-term health conditions. Lucy's research interests include early childhood art education, arts-based research methods, post-qualitative research, posthuman ethics, art as research, art making and drawing in childhood.
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Fiona King; Lucy Hill (2023) 'The Change Lab: An Arts Based Research Approach in Initial Teacher Training' In: Arts Education in Ireland: Pedagogy to Practice. Dublin : Intellect Books. | |
2023 | Lucy Hill; Alice Lyons (2023) 'Strawing: Perpetual Line' In: New Images of Thought in the Study of Childhood Drawing. Switzerland : Springer. [DOI] | |
2023 | Lucy Hill (2023) 'A Posthuman Perspective of Ats Based research with Children' In: Arts Education in Ireland: Pedagogy to Practice. Dublin : Intellect Books. | |
2021 | Lucy Hill (2021) 'On Being led (astray) by (feral) Materials: Posthuman Research Practice in an Outdoor ECEC atelier' In: The Sage Handbook of Global Childhoods. London : Sage. [DOI] | |
2020 | Lucy Hill; Aisling O'Gorman (2020) 'For the Love of Small Stuff: Materialising Theory in an Early Years Artist Residency' In: Working with Young Children in Museums: Weaving Theory and Practice. London : Routledge. [Link] https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434457 |