Artist Lucy Green wants her ceramic sculptures to evoke a sense of history. "They represent houses from everywhere, each one with its own story," she says.

"New Light Through Old Windows" is an exhibition of Lucy's latest work. Each piece comes with a tea light candle, illuminating the interior to evoke a sense of who might live inside. Artist Lucy Green wants her ceramic sculptures to evoke a sense of history. "They represent houses from everywhere, each one with its own story," she says.

"New Light Through Old Windows" is an exhibition of Lucy's latest work. Each piece comes with a tea light candle, illuminating the interior to evoke a sense of who might live inside.

"I hope people will engage with the work; imagine who might live here, what happened here, what kind of lives would they have?"

Lucy experimented with sawdust and match heads to help achieve the sculptures' weathered look. When each piece is fired in the kiln, the sawdust and match heads burn away, leaving curious textures. The roof tiles on some were made by rolling the clay against an old carburetor to leave a tiled pattern.

She works across a variety of media, but Lucy's passion is ceramics. "I love its organic nature and the life-long learning that goes with," she says. From painting and found object art, she took up ceramics two years ago. She was part of the land art exhibition "Outside In", which won a prize in the visual arts category at the 2004 Fringe Festival.

"I prefer to work in three dimensions," she says. "In these works I'm exploring strength and fragility. They look fragile, but are actually quite strong."

In May 2006 her work, "Body Parts", will be on show at Finc Dining Room, Wakefield St, Wellington.

"New Light Through Old Windows" is on show at ROAR! gallery above Real Groovy Records on Cuba St from March 9-19th. ROAR! is open Wednesday-Sunday. All work is for sale.

Lucy Green, tel 027-584-7170
www.pablosart.org.nz/currentexhibitions.html