Artist Lucy J Wright is based in Leeds, UK. Her practice of sculpture and performance sits at the intersection of folklore and activism and uses her 10+ years of cited research into lesser-known contemporary and female-led folk customs as source material. 

Following a stint as the lead singer in BBC Folk Award-nominated act, Pilgrims' Way, Wright received a Vice Chancellor’s scholarship from Manchester School of Art for her PhD, becoming a Visiting Research Fellow in Folklore at University of Hertfordshire in 2019.

Recent activities include an event at Timespan in the North of Scotland, solo shows at Portico Library (Manchester) and Field System (Devon); group shows at Leeds Art Gallery, Kristian Day Gallery and Compton Verney, residencies at Hospitalfield and the Hugo Burge Foundation, a major national commission from Create Berwick / Arts&Heritage and features in Sunday Times Style and Weird Walk. In 2025, she was an invited speaker at the British Academy and a contributor to Claire Bishop’s ‘Ancestral Avant-gardes’.

Lucy is a ‘hedge morris dancer’, author of the ‘Folk is a Feminist Issue’ manifesta, and originator of ‘Dusking’, a 100% invented tradition and annual participatory project for anyone who has ever wanted to dance the sun down!