"#0018 is a singular fragment of a broader collection of work created in tandem with Australian artist Tai Snaith in 2012. "Each artist created individual collages in conversation, as a commentary on the notion of ‘crazy cat ladies’, each egging each other on to find weirder and more wonderful compositions, accumulating into a nest of hundreds of bizarre mutations.

Where #0018 exists as an individual work, know that there is potentially an even stranger sister piece out there, somewhere. "

-Lucy James

With a practice informed by intuition, collection and composition, Lucy James’ work spans drawing, painting and collage. Armed with a medical scalpel, James harvests images from discarded and forgotten books, recontextualising them into carefully composed hybrids of form and meaning.

Touching on issues of inherited folklore, the exploitation of natural resources and relationships with the body, her work evokes fantasies emerging from the vast expanse of our collective imagination. Sometimes humorous and often absurd, her work brings the viewer into a dreamscape where reality is ambiguous, space defies gravity and history is rewritten.

James has exhibited nationally and internationally, with artwork housed in private collections in Australia, Japan, the USA and the UK. She has been a contributor to inaugural publications such as Cat People magazine and the Key of Sea journal, and is one half of the married artist duo Bonus Card.