Artist Bio
Lucy May Vardy is a Nottinghamshire-based artist working across sculpture and installation. Her mixed-media practice taken on many forms, incorporating found and discarded materials exploring fragility, observation , and divinity. Graduating in 2025 in Fine Art BA (Hons) from Nottingham Trent University, her final Degree Show reflected a yearning for familiarity, get suffocated by the warmth. Collecting used tea-bags, sweeping up the dust, and recording daily rituals - her processes are as much of the work as the final piece.
Artist Statement
We often disregard quieter happenings: the muted residue of use, the overlooked relationship between humans and the mundane, and how we relate to bygone objects. These traces - stains, footprints, worn-edges - carry a memory of presence, touch, and time passing.
I examine symbology of the home and the everyday in forgotten forms, placing them in dialogue with praise and worship. Through sculpture and installation, I offer a new life of devotion to these objects, elevating them to relics. By working with materials that imprint the body and its rituals - tea-bags, textiles, hand-built ceramics - I observe the sacredness of the ordinary.
