Through drawing, casting and intricate lacework, Lucy Meyle’s 'Phone Tree' centres around moth traps that lure ‘pest’ species with pseudo-pheromones and catch them in nets or on sticky paper. Through this project, Meyle adapts these surveillance and control devices for humorously different ends, reframing them as narrative holders which are interfered with by the moths themselves. Rather than destructive tools for determining the presence of a pest, in Meyle’s work the moth traps serve as inadvertent collectors of moth memory, drama, and dreaming.
Lucy Meyle is an artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland whose practice explores ways of considering and relating to animals. Working in sculpture and publication, Meyle often draws together the archival, the observed and the absurd into material relation. Recent exhibitions include Pause, act, void, event (Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth), the castle and the goat (Goya Curtain, Tokyo), Spring Time is Heart-break (Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchurch), Memories of a Naturalist (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin), wiggling together, falling apart (Michael Lett (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland), and Mews room (play_station gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington).
Lucy Meyle’s presentation is proudly supported by The Chartwell Trust as part of The Changing Room 2026.
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