Lucia Canuto, trained as a printmaker. Since graduating from the VCA in 2014, her work has expanded through the mediums of screen print, cyanotype, photography and drawing as well as experiments utilising both plant based and synthesised dyes. This process is somehow reminiscent of alchemy.

She is interested in language, translation and archival print materials; mainly newspapers and small publications. Between the years of 2020-23 her body of work was informed by Donna Haraway’s theory of Sympoiesis. That concerns itself with inter-species relationships and biodiversity. Recently her research takes her towards the Italian archive of the pirate station Radio Alice, the newspaper Lotta Continua (that her father wrote for in the 70s) as well as A/Traverso who published as part of the Autonomia movement. Lucia is motivated by language as both visual and verbal tool, playfully and sometimes urgently overturning old codes of communication.

Lucia is also an arts facilitator and teacher, currently working at the Byron Community College with youth and mature age students. This inquiry into pedagogy has begun to shape future research and artmaking.