Research Tutor
Sculpture Programme

Research Leader
School of Fine Art

sculpture@rca.ac.uk
fine-art-research@rca.ac.uk

Patricia Lyons works with live and recorded sound, music and performance. She is the founder and director of the art and music label LoveHowlMuse. She writes and lectures on art, performance, punk and digital activism.

Patricia Lyons was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and received her BFA in Visual Art from York University, Toronto, in 1990. She moved to London in 1992, and in 1994 received a research studentship, going on to complete a practice-based PhD in Fine Art titled 'Mimesis In Practice' at Central Saint Martins College of Art in 1998. Since completing her PhD she has run research seminars at art colleges throughout the UK. She was Joint Head of Sculpture at Camberwell College of Art (1999–2005) and runs the lecture programme on the Performance, Practice and Design MA at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.

In 2010 Patricia Lyons choreographed May 28 at Marka Studios in Florence, Italy. She has written and performed soundtracks, scores and voice-overs for films, including a series of science films for the Wellcome Trust on genetic research (2009); a music portrait of Rainer Werner Fassbinder for Camden Arts Centre and The Arnolofini (2006–7); and in Look What They Done to My Song' Matt's Gallery (2008) and Love in a Cold Climate (2005), both by Michael Curran. She is currently working on an album entitled Refugees of the Opium Wars for release in 2012.

As a Research Fellow at the University of London, Patricia Lyons has developed rhizome.org.uk, a web-based research network in art, design and performance that connects students and researchers across colleges in the UK.