Lucy Orta

Lucy Orta worked in visual arts. Her work is associated with contemporary art.

She was employed by London College of Fashion.

5 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1582 to 2008.

Antarctica World Passport, dated 2008. Life Nexus : 25 January - 22 February 2002 / Jorge and Lucy Orta., dated 2002, held by Wellcome Collection. Aromatum et medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium liber: plurimum lucis adferens iis quae a Doctore Garcia de Orta ... scripta sunt / Christophori a Costa ; Caroli Clusii ... opera ex Hispanico sermone latinus factus, in epitomen contractus, et quibusdam notis illustratus., dated 1582, held by Wellcome Collection. Catalogues for exhibitions held at the TwoTen Gallery, dated 1995-2002, held by Wellcome Collection. Corporate photography shoots C0010149 - C0012901, dated c.2000-c.2002, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

7 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Orta, Lucy, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Lucy Orta, Home Cultures, 2005. Lucy Orta, “Art for our time”, TEXTILE, 2006. Lucy + Jorge Orta, Edition Angewandte, 2010. Orta, Lucy (ed.): Mapping the Invisible. EU-RomaGypsies, Anthropos, 2012. Landscaping Islands: Alex Hartley’s “Nowhereisland” and Floating Histories in Contemporary British Art, British Art Studies, 2018. CRITICAL DISPLACEMENTS: ON THE SOCIO-POLITICAL POTENTIAL OF ‘WEARABLE’ STRUCTURES, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2017.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 5 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Lucy Orta studied at Nottingham Trent University. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is visual arts. The authority associates the name with contemporary art.

Employment is recorded with London College of Fashion.

Work by Lucy Orta is recorded in the collections of Museum De Lakenhal and Centraal Museum.