Lucreccia Quintanilla has over decades built a cultural practice which is comprised of various artistic modalities.
Her work is concerned with sound, culture and collectivity which drives her to create sound works, written works, sculptural and painting works, events and DJ across a wide range of contexts.
She has worked as a Co-Director/ CEO of sound focused organisation Liquid Architecture as well as completing her artistic practice-led Doctoral research titled Whose Myth, on the echo as a sonic phenomenon and a metaphor.
She is interested in various approaches of sound and amplification. Quintanilla has presented her research at the Sound System Outernational Conference in Naples, Italy organised by Goldsmiths University and In 2014 she constructed a soundsystem as a way to create experimental spaces for culture, multiplicity, respite, dancing, music and sound.
Quintanilla's sound compositions have been presented live, as part of collaborations with performance artists as well as in gallery settings including Westspace Offsite, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and for the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney in collaboration with Claudia Nicholson. She collaborated with Latai taumoepeau and Nina Buchanan on Refuge commissioned by Arts House Melbourne.She has been a resident artist at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada and was in 2021 part of the Makeshift Project at Artshouse, Melbourne. Quintanilla has received various grants and awards for her work.
She is regularly commissioned to write in response to the work of peers and recent written works include: Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE Art International Award publication, Finland and has edited issue 19.1 of Un Magazine titled: Resonant Imaginaries, with a focus on artists writings on sound and collectivity. Lucreccia has been DJing under the name DJ General Feelings for the past 20 years regularly in and around Narrm. She researches sounds from Latin America that range from experimental and forward thinking approaches, to the nostalgic.
Lucreccia migrated from El Salvador to Australia and continues to live and work on the unceded land of the Wurudgeri people of the Kulin Nation.