Artist Bio 

Lucia is an ecological artist, researcher and educator whose practice extends drawing beyond the human. With more than 30 years of exhibitions, talks, teaching and interdisciplinary research, her work explores more-than-human artfulness through contemporary drawing, vernacular photography, observation and posthuman theory. She recently completed a Creative Arts PhD at Loughborough University, UK, where her thesis, The Artfulness of More-than-Human Trace (2025), and an article published in TRACEY: Drawing and Visualisation Research, Issue: Volume 17, Issue 1, Drawing Anthropocene (2024), established the conceptual and methodological foundations of her art practice. Lucia states simply but radically: “The reason we think marks made by more-than-human life look like drawings is because they are drawings,” advancing her claim that “everything draws – humans and more-than-human alike” as aesthetic acts emerging through ecological processes. Her practice centres on traces such as snail grazing and mucus trails, leafminer larvae mining lines in leaves and spider webs, approaching them as forms of drawing that challenge anthropocentric ideas of artistic production. Drawing becomes a means of fostering kinship with ambient ecologies - dynamic networks of organisms, materials and conditions that co-evolve, encouraging attentiveness, care and ethical engagement in response to the Anthropocene. Through field observations made while walking across the countryside and urban streetscapes, Lucia photographs more-than-human traces using only her mobile phone camera. She does not intervene in the mark-making process. The resulting photographs are presented as “flashbacks”: encounters with traces experienced rather than authored. Exhibited as eco-digital prints derived from in situ documentation, the works preserve the ecological specificity of each trace while contributing to contemporary discourse in ecologica  aesthetics and the expanded field of drawing.