Lucy J Newman is a London-based hand embroidery artist whose thread paintings explore speculative futures, distortion and resilience. Working primarily with cotton thread on pre-consumer waste cloth, Lucy creates intricate embroidered works that imagine how the world might adapt and transform in response to crisis. While mutated flora often feature, her practice spans broader ideas such as glitch, instability and the tension between control and chaos.
Living with a vestibular condition (MDDS), Lucy experiences the world as constantly shifting. This embodied sense of imbalance shapes her visual language: fractured, layered and fluid. Her work challenges perfection in textiles, embracing irregularity and interruption as meaningful forms of expression.
Lucy was awarded the Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery in 2022 and has since been shortlisted for the Fine Art Textile Award, the Share Prize, the Waverton Art Prize and the Young Masters Art Prize. Lucy regularly exhibits in the UK and internationally and is part of the Bound Collective of contemporary embroiderers.
Lucy joined Design-Nation as a Professional member in summer 2025.
