Bio
Lucy Vardy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Nottinghamshire, working across drawing, sculpture and installation. Her most recent show was Germinator at Haarlem Artspace, a group exhibition and year-long programme with the gallery. She graduated with a First in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University in 2025, where her work was acquired for the university’s art collection. She recently completed the East Midlands Graduate Project at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, including a residency, public workshop and group exhibition. Upcoming projects include group exhibitions with Crop Up Gallery and Hagstone Collective, and inclusion in No Jobs in the Arts zine (Issue 10).
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.
