Lucy "Tinkle" Nell Stewart

About

Lucy Nell Stewart was born in Northern California in autumn of 1960.

From 1973-1976 she attended American Ballet Theater scholarship summers in New York City. Returning to California she finished high school then danced professionally with a handful of ballet companies; Houston Ballet, San Francisco Opera Ballet, Garden State Ballet, and Dayton Ballet.

In 1979 through the mid 1980’s she created and performed her own performance art works in New York City as well studied clowning at “If Every Fool”. She headed back to California to for theater and film projects where her first one-woman show emerged in the early 1990’s in Los Angeles.

Back to New York City mid 1990’s to create her second show and her theatrical pursuits led to an interest in filmmaking.

She attended a handful of Super 8 and 16mm classes at Millennium with Ross McLaren and then migrated to video on her own to create these works.

She has been making art her entire life and now resides in Pennsylvania near the Delaware River.