Lucy Wright works across visual art, performance, and critical writing to explore the spaces where folklore, feminism and cultural participation meet. Her projects often emerge from years of study into under-recognised and female-led traditions, especially those associated with her own working-class upbringing in the north—resulting in artworks that serve both as invitations and provocations. 

Believing that the current resurgence of folk interest—what Claire Bishop has described as the ‘ancestral turn’ across the arts—often hangs on exclusionary ideas from the past, her work is concerned with exploring and reframing folk as a critical agent for contemporary resistance, speaking to the culture we create for ourselves and its radical potential. Through ongoing interventions in and with existing folk practices, and the playful invention of incisive new ones—Wright’s work encourages viewers to reimagine what tradition might look like if it were made now, by us, for each other. It asks what new folklore we might need for living together on a divided and broken planet

Recent activities include 'Dusking' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Timespan (Scotland); solo shows at Portico Library (Manchester) and Field System (Devon); group shows at Bloc Projects (Sheffield), Leeds Art Gallery and Kristian Day Gallery (Wirksworth, Derbyshire), residencies at Hospitalfield, Morning Boat (Jersey) and the Hugo Burge Foundation and speaking engagements at the British Academy and Claire Bishop’s ‘Ancestral Avant-gardes’ (Manchester School of Art). Her work has been featured in Sunday Times Style and Weird Walk and with filmmaker Jonny Randall, she was winner of ‘Best in Folk’ at the 2025 Offbeat Film Festival.

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!  

Forthcoming projects include Our Wic, a major national commission from Create Berwick / Arts&Heritage, a curated event at the Mildmay Club (London) and with luck, her first book!