Lucy Williams

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display and function 2026

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Lucy is a Brighton-based artist creating sculptures through foraged, found, and grown materials. Her practice is grounded in a deep curiosity about the physical, symbolic, and expressive potential of natural materials. This unfolds through an intuitive, process-led approach. Working this way is a form of listening to landscape.

 

The materials Lucy uses are commonly gathered close to home—from her garden and allotment to local streets, doorstep parks, and surrounding woodland. They are discovered and harvested on her daily walks. Gathering is an integral part of Lucy’s practice and she harvests slowly and attentively, allowing the rhythms of walking, season, growth, and decay to guide the work. These conditions often determine the final form, resulting in pieces that are often unrepeatable.

 

Recently Lucy has been drawn to making brushes from gathered fibres. These are not intended as tools in the ordinary sense. They sit somewhere between object, ritual and gesture, carrying traces of the landscape they came from.

 

Their purpose is not to sweep or paint, but to suggest acts of cleansing, marking and connection- In this way they feel closer to ancesteral talismans or ceremonial objects than functional implements.

 

With a background in geography, conservation, landscape architecture, public art and place-making Lucy has spent the past decade integrating this broad sweep of insight into an artistic practice that is tactile, meditative, and deeply attuned to place.​

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