Education

1997 BA of Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design

1993 BTEC National Diploma in General Art and Design, Kent Institute Of Art and Design

Exhibitions

2009 Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, London

Line and Colour, The Art Works Galleries, Newcastle

2008 Front Window, Camberwell Arts Week, London

2006 London Bridges , Virgil DeVoldere Gallery , New York

2002 Gatsby, The New Lansdowne Club, London

2001 Handful of Showoffs, Marle Place Gallery , Kent

1999 Articulture, Southbank, London

1997 Text In Art, The Poetry Cafe, London

1996 King Sturge, Davis Street Gallery, London

Blanc, Putney Exchange, London

1995 Outpost, Venice Biennale

Projects

2009 My Space, site specific painting at South London Cultural Centre, London

Front Window , conceived and organised by Lucy Soni and Sophie Eade, for Camberwell Arts Festival, London

2008 Consequences at Spartacus Chewynd’s Helmut Newton Ladies Night.

Part of Event Horizon at the Royal Academy of Art, London

2004 – 2008 Assisted on prop-making and participated in performances for Spartacus Chetwynd, including The Snail Race, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan 2008 Delirious, Serpentine Pavilion 2006, The Fall of Man, Tate Triennial, 2006, Becks Futures, ICA, 2005, Born Free, Gasworks, 2004

2007 Commission for The Children’s Trust Tadworth

There are two main themes in Lucy Soni’s work; the relationship between a child’s mark making and abstraction, as well as the friction between the freedom of childhood expression and the process of reproduction by a trained artist.

Soni reproduces her daughters’ drawings by tracing, enlarging and repeating their spontaneous scribbles and gestures into oil paintings. She makes a series of decisions about quality of lines, colour, rules learned through years of looking at and making art, to create carefully balanced compositions. Through her paintings and drawings, Soni aims to unite high art and popular culture.