About
Mercedes Lucy is a Margate-based artist whose practice centres on ceramics, drawing inspiration from the medium’s physicality, versatility, and grounding connection to both art and craftsmanship. Working across sculpture, handmade tiles, drawing, and murals, she explores form in both two and three dimensions. Her process often involves casting and working with body forms to create vessels that are both intimate and symbolic.
Mercedes’s work is rooted in close observation of her surroundings and a deep connection to the natural world. Themes of domesticity, feminism, motherhood, grief, and identity run throughout her pieces, often expressed with playful, tongue-in-cheek humour. She embraces the slow, deliberate rhythm of ceramics as a way to counter the rush of modern life and explore the value of creative labour.
Since 2022, Mercedes has held a permanent studio at Tracey Emin’s art studios in Margate.
