About
“I tell stories, often for those who don’t have voices.
I draw directly onto clay, spontaneous, mythic, feminine marks that celebrate the mess and magic of lived experience. I hand-build plates, bowls, tiles and sculptural vessels, often casting parts of mine and my children’s bodies alongside fruit and animal parts, blending the sacred with the everyday.
My work is tactile, emotionally layered, and full of sagging forms, pooling glazes, and imperfect surfaces, speaking to care, rupture and repair.
My practice expands into immersive environments: hanging macramé sculptures, embroidered textiles, sound installations.
At its core, my work centres on the body, home and time—where softness, fury and tenderness live side by side. I use traditional materials in contemporary, sometimes subversive ways to question value, permanence and the invisibility of domestic labour.
I live and work in Margate, I’m a permanent studio holder at Tracey Emin’s TKE Studios.” – Mercedes Lucy
