My creative practice in digital video installation focuses on creating order from chaos. I work experimentally, exploring the unknown as a means to push boundaries and reveal new forms of meaning. The process is just as important as the finished work, often leading me to unexpected territories. Currently, I am expanding into sonic an immersive elements, aiming to place the viewer within the piece rather than in front of it. My work draws on Jungian concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious, as well as Soviet montage theory, intertwining psychological depth and cinematic tension into spatial experiences
System: Obscura (2025)
Projection Mapped Video Installation
Developed during a two-month open studio session at Turntable Gallery, this experimental work in progress uses projection mapping to explore new ways of presenting video within one of the gallery’s cold store chambers. Conceived and produced in the two days leading up to the Finissage, the piece takes the form of a clunky, biomechanical living wall, where each of the 18 fragments contributes to the functioning of the whole; a grotesque system stitched together yet somehow still alive.
Technotage (2024)
Digital Film Installation
Music: BrettJayB
Technotage is a site-specific audiovisual montage designed for a former cold store chamber at Turntable Gallery, Grimsby. Drawing on over 30 public domain films and set to a pulsating techno mix, the work reimagines Soviet montage techniques to explore how fragmented loops of thought, memory, and media shape our realities. By collapsing high and low culture into an immersive, confrontational space, Technotage reflects the frenetic pace of the digital age while inviting viewers to question the systems that shape belief and perception. Originally created for the Lightworks Exhibition at Grimsby Minster in 2010, this piece experimented with recontextualising public domain footage into new interlinking narratives. Completely reedited and expanded in 2024.
Current experiements
During my DYCP period, I have been independently exploring projection mapping through MadMapper, experimenting with layering and arranging multiple videos on a single wall with no sound. These tests have revealed how different editing modes can shift the relationship between moving image and space, and the addition of a mask has produced intriguing effects with shadow, an avenue I will be exploring further. One outcome of this process is a planned dual triptych of videos, exploring the relationship and dialogue between the opposing triptychs.
System: Obscura (2025)
Multi-channel Video Installation: MadMapper Turntable Gallery Finissage
Technotage (2024)
Experimental Film Installation
Beneath the Surface Group Show Turntable Gallery
Bounce Back (2012)
Experimental Music Video Screening Lightworks Exhibition Grimsby Town Hall
Technotage #1 (2010)
Experimental Film Installation
Lightworks Exhibition Grimsby Minster
Untitled (2005)
Experimental Film Installation
Britannia Mill School of Art University of Derby
Untitled (2004)
Experimental Film Installation in Enclosed Space
Green Lane Film School, Derby
John Prescott: The Musical (2002) Recorded Performance/ Video Installation Grimsby School of Art (Winner of the College's Outstanding Achievement Award)
Director: The Other Collective CIC (March 2025 - Present)
Creating Opportunities for Disadvantaged Creatives
Lucy's Art Club: Inclusive Arts Collective (Sept 2025 - Sept 2026)
Funded by Arts Council England and Create NEL
Arts Council England DYCP Recipient Sustained Experimental Practice (May 2025 - March 2026)
Experimental Film Creative Pack Commission Creative Start (Sept 2025)
Lucy's Art Club: Provision for Neurodivergent Creatives (April 2024 - Feb 2025) Funded by Arts Council England and Create NEL
Project Manager: Faraway CIC 's Supported Selling Project for Autistic Artists (March 2023 - Jan 2024) Funded by Humber Transforming Care Partnership
Video and Archive Image Procurement and Editing MYFISHGY: Projection Mapping Project Grimsby Heritage Centre (June 2022 - Feb 2023)
Event Visuals/VJing Northern Yarns Halloween Literary Event Sheffield Cemetery (2019)
Beatroot Collective: Event Planning and VJing (2010 - 2015)
In the Lab: Experimental Music Video for D0-2X (2013)
Bounce Back: Experimental Music Video for HarleyLikesMusic (2012)
LSVJ: Event Visuals and VJing for Club Nights and Independent Promoters in Northern UK (2008 - 2015)
Email: lucy_mager@hotmail.com