Lucy Wright is an artist based in Leeds, UK. Her work, which combines painting, making and performing, sits at the intersection of folklore and place, often using as source material the large personal archive of photographs and research she has gathered over nearly a decade of documenting female and queer-led folk customs. Many of her projects reference and subvert traditional practices—both material and performed—to explore the contestations of gender and class in the archive, and recurrent themes in her works include female solitude, the relationships between the body and the landscape, and the consolations of non-anthropocentric sociabilities

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 (2014) before becoming a Visiting Research Fellow in Folklore at University of Hertfordshire in 2019. With 10 years of experience creating striking, timely and impactful art projects, often engaging those who might not ordinarily access the arts , she has undertaken residencies for Analogue Farm (2022), Morning Boat (2018/19) and Airspace Gallery (2015) and presented solo shows at South Square (2023), The Bug (2022), Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery (2021) and Cecil Sharp House (2017). Recent group shows include Leeds Art Gallery (2023), Mead Gallery (forthcoming) and Broadway Gallery and commissions and awards from Marchmont House (2023), A-N (2023), Compton Verney (2023), Daiwa Foundation (2023) and Meadow Arts (2021).