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. Living with Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, a rare balance disorder that creates a constant sense of motion, she experiences the world as subtly unstable and in flux. This altered perception feeds into her redefinition of botanical forms, evoking 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

• Of H2025: Contemporary Fiber: Botanicals (group) Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado, USA

• 2025: Bound embroidery collective (group) Batsford Gallery, London, UK

• 2025: 40 Dimensions (group), &Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

• 2025: Broderers Exhibition (Group), London, UK

• 2025: Young Masters art prize Exhibition (Group), London, UK

• 2025: 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

-2025: Highly commended women artist award, Young Masters Art Prize