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Bruce Lacey On stage with Fairport Convention, August 14th 2004 Photograph: Brian Marks Background information "Professor" Bruce Lacey, born 1927, remains one of Britain's great eccentrics. After completing his national service in the RAF he became established on the avantgarde scene with his performance art and mechanical constructs. He has been closely associated with The Alberts performance group and The Goon Show. He made the props and had an acting part in Richard Lester's The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film. Ken Russell made a fifteen-minute film about him called The Preservation Man (1962), which linked Lacey to Chaplin (in a Keystone Cops-style sequence) and featured some of Lacey's nightclub act (knife-throwing/robots) and a lip-synched performance of 'Sleepy Valley' which Lacey had recorded with The Alberts. Lacey played a mad scientist in the feature film 'Smashing Time', but his most famous appearance on film remains George Harrison's flute playing gardener in the Beatles' feature film Help!. Lacey contributed to Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in 1968 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, exhibiting a robotic owl and actors: Rosa Bosom and Mate plus a sex-simulator. He also exhibited his The British Landing on the Moon in Simon Chapman's 1969 Cybervironment Plus an experimental arts festival which took place at Aston University, Birmingham. Photographs of some of his mechanical devices can be found in Reichardt's book Robots (Thames and Hudson, 1978). In the 1960s and 1970s, he was very active in the 'Happenings' culture; and was a visiting professor at Art Colleges from St Ives to Leeds. His mechanical statue The Womaniser (1966) is one of two pieces of his bought by the Tate. Lacey is mentioned on the Fairport Convention L.P. "What We Did On Our Holidays" in the song "Mr Lacey", written by Ashley Hutchings. He toured England in the mid seventies with his children's SCI-FI theatre show and became involved in 'Earth Magic' with his then wife Jill Bruce, mounting a number of performance pieces and exhibitions. They moved to Norfolk and became part of a fair making network, Albion Fairs. There was a major retrospective of his life and art at the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art in 1996 Now in his 80s, he lives in a farmhouse in Norfolk surrounded by a bizarre collection of his creations. In spite of ill health he is still working. His latest project he calls 'vox humana exploration' using his voice through a series of effects to perform his own songs plus those of David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Queen. External links http://www.fairsarchive.org.uk/Site/bruce.html Interview http://burning-brightly.tripod.com/mrlacey.html "Mr. Lacey" Persondata Name Lacey, Bruce Alternative names Short description Date of birth 1927 Place of birth Date of death Place of death This biographical article related to film in the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · e This article about an entertainer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · e