Lucy Newman is a contemporary artist making hand-embroidered artworks that explore the instability of perception. Her experience of living with a vestibular condition has increasingly turned her attention towards the way she sees and experiences the world.

Her practice asks whether a medium associated with slowness and precision can carry the immediacy of gestural painting. She works intuitively with thread, allowing the image to shift through the physical act of making. The tension between control and spontaneity has become central to her work.

Teaching is an important extension of Lucy’s practice. She teaches traditional embroidery techniques in a way that encourages experimentation and personal interpretation, giving people the skills to develop their own visual language. Through her work with young people and adults, including The Creative Dimension Trust and community organisations, she aims to create space for people to discover what making can offer them.

Lucy studied Printed Textile Design at Central Saint Martins before establishing LJN Studio in 2017. She began focusing on her own artistic practice in 2021, winning the Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery the following year. In September 2026, she begins an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art as a QEST Clothworkers’ Company Scholar.