A review of my 2018 solo exhibition at OUTPUT Gallery by Ed Montana Williams for Corridor 8 - click to read.
"If the architect of megalomania Albert Speer was to be believed, a civilization could be judged by its ruins, and what ruins Lacey offers us! Channelling Bruegel’s Tower of Babel in addition to the surreal creations of Terry Gillam, the fantastical citadels of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Warhammer 40000 and the uneasy architectural scenes of De Chirico, Lacey’s works are best considered as a series, each echoing yet subtlety distancing themselves from one another.
His employment of collage is not the haphazard biographical account of Picasso’s detritus ‘found objects’; rather it owes more to Richard Hamilton’s careful selection and construction of a composition. The result is a series of canvasses whose flatness brings their immediacy to the spectators’ attention and whose surface details are intricate ocular delights."