Press
Main commission for Create Berwick (2025/6)
Create Berwick | Contemporary arts agency Arts&Heritage
“There’s a long tradition of crowning people at events that commemorate sectors of industry – from the Salmon Queen in Tweedmouth, the Coal Queen at Miners’ Galas, and the Cotton Queens of the 1930s. I want to take that sense of occasion and pageantry to honour some of the people that serve the town of Berwick and make it the town it is – whether that’s through a local community group, or by working in some of the town’s contemporary industries.”
Hedge morris dancing (since 2023)
Tradfolk | Lucy Wright | 6 September 2023
“Hedge morris dancing is for those of us who don’t have, or can’t be with a group of morris siblings, on May morning, but who still feel the call to dance up the sun!”
Tradfolk | Lucy Wright | 9 October 2023
“Dusking’ itself seems to be a new coinage, but the custom has other names: the Dark Morris, the Anti-Morris, ‘Dancing the Sun Down’, and a range of references, from art and popular culture to the ‘annals’ of morris dancing history.”
Group show, ‘Guisers’ at Haarlem Artspace / Kristin Day Gallery
Haarlem Artspace | 1 Aug — 14 Sep ‘25
“Lucy Wright works across visual art, performance, and academic research to explore the spaces where folklore, feminism and cultural participation meet.”
Solo show, ‘Future Folk Archetypes’ at Portico Library, Manchester (2024)
The Portico Library | Thursday 4 July to Saturday 2 November 2024
“The three works in the series draw on and reimagine existing folk customs and characters as gender-flipped and manifestly 21st-century beings.”
Solo show, ‘Oss Girls’ at Field System, Ashburton (2024)
Caught By The River | 26th April 2024
“For me, ‘folk’ speaks directly to that, as the culture that we make for ourselves, that permits active engagement at all levels (not just consumption) and that does not demand perfection, even though many folk artists are highly skilled too.”
Speaker at ‘Ancestral Avant-gardes’, curated by Claire Bishop, Manchester School of Art (2025)
Art Research Group | Friday 21st March 2025
“The conference addresses the resurgence of interest in ‘ancestralism’ among performance and visual artists, who hark back to traditional, pre-modern or indigenous forms of collective knowledge, often in the form of ceremonies, rituals, and invocations.”
Speaker + exhibition at the British Academy, London (2025)
The British Academy | Thursday 10th Apr 2025
“Join our experts to discuss the history, evolution, and contemporary relevance of folk dance in the British Isles, exploring its cultural significance and modern re-invention.”
Interdisciplinary residency at Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2025)
Hospitalfield | June 2025
Feature in Sunday Times Style (2024)
Sunday Times | 2024
Featured artist at Castlefield Gallery (2025)
Castlefield Gallery | 7 May 2025
“A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to host a workshop at the gallery—building a rushcart as part of my ‘Future Folk Archetypes’ series—and I also took some photos of myself dressed as my character, The Burry Woman in front of Kay Shah’s fantastic installation for 40 Years of the Future: Degrees of Duality.”
Former lead singer in BBC Folk Award nominated act, Pilgrims' Way
Wikipedia | Mildertduck, Blanchardb… | 27 January 2012
“Formed in 2009 as a three-piece, comprising Lucy Wright, Tom Kitching and Edwin Beasant, they rapidly became known as one of the most prolific folk groups in the United Kingdom.”