Lucy Newman’s practice confronts the tensions between the digital age and traditional craft. Her embroidered “paintings” capture imagined futures where nature merges with technological interference. Through hand embroidery, she redefines botanical forms to evoke a world where nature is resilient yet transformed. Her compositions blend vibrant colour, intricate form, and empty space to create a haunting vision where the organic and digital converge—suggesting both beauty and fragility in a world on the edge of change.
Exhibitions
Here is the ordered list without numbers:
2025: (upcoming) Broderers Exhibition (Group), London, UK
2025: (upcoming) Bound Embroidery Exhibition (Group), London, UK
2024: Waverton Art Prize Exhibition (Group), London, UK
2024: Contemporary Art Textile Exhibition (Group), London, UK
2024: TINCT (Group), Ruup and Form, London, UK
2024: Sussex Contemporary (Group), Newhaven, East Sussex, UK
2023: SHARE FESTIVAL XVII – ELABORATOR, THE HEART OF THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Group), Turin, IT
2023: Fine Art Textile Award Exhibition (Group), [Venues in London, Birmingham, Harrogate], UK
2023: Embroidered Arts Exhibition (Group), Hand and Lock, London, UK
Awards
- 2022: Winner, Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery (Open Art Category)
- 2023: Shortlisted, Fine Art Textile Award
- 2023: Shortlisted, Share Prize
-2024: Shortlisted, Waverton Art prize