Lucy Hutchings (b. Hong Kong, 2001), is a British painter based in London, England. She received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Leeds Art University (2022) before recieving an MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School (2024).
Her figurative paintings are of environments where we transition into something unconditioned and truthful, often located in beer gardens or nightclubs. She understands these spaces as a stage for truthful performance, for people to participate in their laughable, creative and transgressive characters. Each painting is composed of imagery dervied from personal or shared experiences of gluttony and debauchary, turning familiar enviroments into unsettling and carnivalesque narratives.
"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 and Recognitions
Ingram Prize Finalist, 2025
The Tagli Mentorship Finalist, 2025
The Harriet Anstruther Prize, 2024
Exhibitions
2025
Ingram Prize - Unit 1 Gallery, London
Autoamour & Filthy Fox Auction - Art House Live, London
Camouflage - Stash Gallery, London
Two Sides of the Same Coin - Lewisham Arthouse, London
Maza.art Auction 20.03.25 - Hackney Down Studios, London
International Women's Day Auction, Art On A Postcard, London
South Open 3 - OHSH Projects, London
2024
Reflections of Time - The Holy Art Gallery, London
MA Degree Show - City and Guilds of London Art School
Bizarre - Art Magnitude, Fox Yard Studios, Suffolk
Skeuomorph - Canal Boat Contemporary, Greaterox Street
2023
Maza.art Auction 5.10.23 - Maza.Art, Madrid
Orbs Walls - Old Red Bus Station, Leeds
2022
A Coalescence Of Daydreams, Graduate Show - The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
First Ones Out, BA Degree Show - Leeds Art University
Ones To Watch - Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds
Press
https://www.chorusarts.london/journal/lucy-hutchings-city-guilds-of-london-ma
https://www.londonartroundup.com/reviews/city-and-guilds-ma-show-2024
https://affordableartfair.com/inspiration/whats-next-recent-graduate-artists/