Lucy Finchett-Maddock is a legal thinker, artist and activist.
She is known for her curation of art and law, legal artistic research, and her critical legal and contemporary philosophical writings on law. She is a Reader in Law at Bangor University, broadly researching and teaching on the themes of resistance, aesthetics, property, artificial divisions of art and law, and entropy; and uses a combination of fine arts-based, art history and legal doctrinal approaches, in her teaching.
Lucy is one of the founders of the Art/Law Network and LORE (Legal Origins Rights Education & Art), with curating UK law in non-law spaces as a form of access to justice, being her passion. She is a member of BAN’s New Dialogues: Art created historically in mental health settings Research Group. Her current legal artistic research project ‘A Series of Repetitive Beats’ concerns the impact of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 on nomadic communities, forms of sound and understandings of property.
