Lucy Hutchings (b. Hong Kong, 2001) is a British figurative painter currently based in London, England. She has exhibited across the United Kingdom and Madrid.
Lucy's paintings spotlight the absurdity of human tendency and explore our conditioned response to shame. Within the chaotic scenes of her paintings, there are penetrative and leaking orifices, excrement, laughter and excessive pleasure; pushing and pulling visceral experiences through imagery that is both pleasurable and grotesque, seductive and repulsive.
Inspired by personal experiences of debauchery and medieval artwork, these references are re-imagined into figurative paintings using dry pigment and oil paint, where human-like bodies are exposed consuming, excreting and bonding in their excessive pleasures.
"If you can't see yourself in at least one of the characters in these messy, debauched big-night-out scenes then you did your 20s wrong" - London Art Roundup, 2024
Education
MA Fine Art - City and Guilds of London Art School, 2024
BA (Hons) Fine Art - Leeds Art University, 2022
Awards
The Harriet Anstruther Prize, 2024
Exhibitions
Reflections of Time - The Holy Art Gallery, London, 2024
MA Degree Show - City and Guilds of London Art School, 2024
Bizarre - Art Magnitude, Fox Yard Studios, Suffolk, 2024
Skeuomorph - Canal Boat Contemporary, Greaterox Street, 2024
Interim Show - City and Guilds of London Art School, 2024
Maza.art Auction 5.10.23 - Maza.Art, Madrid, 2023
Orbs Walls - Old Red Bus Station, Leeds, 2023
A Coalescence Of Daydreams, Graduate Show - The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, 2022
First Ones Out - Leeds Art University, 2022
Ones To Watch - Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, 2022
Press
https://www.chorusarts.london/journal/lucy-hutchings-city-guilds-of-london-ma
https://affordableartfair.com/inspiration/whats-next-recent-graduate-artists/