Luce F-M goes by the moniker of Cyrenaur (cyren means current and aur, gold, in Welsh).
Luce’s practice is about identifying dualities, divisions and boundaries, real or imagined - and transcending them, giving these movements material, visual, sonic - social, political and legal - form. She uses sound, installation, law, text, as well as abstract painting, to bring these divisions to light.
Her work often depicts movements between one state of matter to the next, whether that be literal changes in the physical world (such as ice, or slate); or the shifts between art institutions and legal institutions. She is interested in the materiality of these dividing lines, and what it can tell us about culture and societal change.
Her work is both political and deeply personal in its nature. Given her concern for divides, she has looked at the human/machine in her work. She often uses recycled or repurposed fluorescent Perspex to bring to life the artificial split between human-made and naturally occurring materials and structures, questioning what we mean by beauty as something synthetic and toxic can create its own light and hue through its ‘live edge’. Its jagged rectangular edges can temper the origin of form, where similar colours and shapes can be found in the non-human world, where what it means to be human is dissected.
On a personal level, she has referenced having a pacemaker, and the sentience she perceives the device to have, always interested in electricity as an aesthetic form in itself, and a recurring life-force throughout my practice, resulting in a series of ‘sound sculptures’ based on vibration from compositions made with her electrocardiograms.
Law is a presence in the background, as a legal scholar by training, at times making use of specific pieces of legislation as a thematic in her work (such as the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to highlight the impact and changes to the NHS and the impact on justice). She curates exhibitions with law as a guide, as well as spending many years developing the Art/Law Network bringing artists, lawyers and activists to work together.
As someone with knowledge based both in the mind and the heart, she combines her theoretical insights in contemporary legal philosophy, with her deep felt love for working with materiality, with people, to further the work of art/law in the world as an activist and facilitator.
Luce has been involved in the curation and exhibiting of her work in London, Brighton, Rotterdam and North Wales.
She is driven by a deep commitment to social change, and the beauty that can come about as a result of this. Social entrepreneurship is therefore an underlying key part of he work. She is the founding member of the Art/Law Network, an organisation that brings artists, lawyers and activists together, and The LORE School, an arts and law organisation.
Exhibitions
Entropi Caernarfon (November 2023)
Treesense Pontio Arts Centre Bangor (April – June 2023)
Amass you Radiant Heretics beneath the Falling Sprawl Online (Dec 2020)
Umbilical Buddy CIRCA Piccadilly Circus London (September 2020)
Umbilical Buddy No Show University of Brighton (July 2020)
With all my Heart University of Brighton (July 2019)
out(Law) SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon) Brighton (Sep 2019)
SLEEP (with Distant Animals) Tate Exchange London (Jun 2018)
UNION (with Distant Animals) The Synergy Centre Brighton (Jun 2016)
Curation
Entropi (with Manon Awst) Caernarfon (2023)
out(Law) SEAS (Socially Engaged Art Salon) Brighton (Sep 2019)
SLEEP (with Distant Animals) Tate Exchange London (Jun 2018)
UNION (with Distant Animals) The Synergy centre Brighton (Jun 2016)
Collaborations
HYPHAE zine with Rose Parfitt (2021-ongoing)
Art/Law Network (2015-ongoing)
Open Up with Andreas Philoppopolous-Mihaloulous Lincoln’s Inn London (Dec 2021)
White Paper: The Law by Adelita Husni-Bey CASCO Rotterdam (Apr 2015)
Law in the Limelight by Jack Tan Arebyte Gallery London (Aug 2017 – Jan 2018)
How Does this Country Work by Rosalie Schweiker Rabbits Road Institute London (Jun 2017)