Lucy Williams
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Lucy Williams is a Brighton based artist. Having grown up in the South Downs, the artist continues to be informed by rural and coastal plant-life. Selected exhibitions include: Basketry, Rhythm, Renewal and Reinvention, a UK travelling exhibition, 2021, Earth Materials, Gallery57, West Sussex, 2023, and Petite, Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co., New York, 2025. The artist recently took part in the Winter Studio Residency at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, 2025. Williams’ practice explores plant materiality as it relates to basketry, probing the resilience and flexibility of fiber, creating intricate and complex forms.
Due to the nature of her material selections, the artist typically creates precise and small-scale domestic forms. Such materials range from, flax, dog rose, pond sedge and yellow-eyed grass, which she frequently cultivates or harvests herself. Highly process driven, Williams’ often does not know the final form of a piece at the point she begins weaving or binding. Instead, the works take shape from the artist’s muscle memory and gestures. From the intersection of domestic forms, such as baskets and brooms, her works unfold through technical and material experimentation.
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