Lucie MacGregor (she/her) Artist and Facilitator
b. 1996, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and based in London.
As a multidisciplinary Artist and Educator, my making harbours the synchronicities between found materials and the situations they are extracted from. Questioning binary-based conventions in art through multi-sensorial approaches, my making moves between sculpture, drawing and performance. Paper is recycled and reformed through these gestures; I am interested in transformative material processes and how we can ethically reuse natural resources in art making. Collaborative exchanges have enabled me to research and experiment with the evolution of paper into pulp; it’s ingredients, formation and colour is driven by each making cycle. Fusing together this recycled surface with framed structures, the pulp has been tiled, sculpted and embedded with found fragments, turning static drawings into a material that holds a collective archive. As a queer and neurodivergent Artist, I find the levels of visibility within paper pulping an empowering notion which I am motivated to share and research with others during workshop exchanges.
I am currently taking part in LungA School (2025) a 3 month alternative art programme residency in Iceland and based in Iceland until the end of this year. I received a DYCP grant in 2024 from Arts Council. Exhibitions include 'Weather Show' at Camden Arts Centre (2025), Paper Future Lab with Haus des Papiers, Berlin (2024), ‘Den!’ at Camden Art Centre, UK (2024) and a commissioned 3 metre sculpture made for the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary for the ‘Big Birthday Weekend’, UK (2024).
Curious of modes of translation through visual languages, considering what can be both lost and gained, I have recently delivered community workshops with Newham libraries with D/deaf and BSL users as part of Newham Festival of Stories (2024). Co-facilitating workshops with vulnerable adults from Look Ahead sites and The Royal Academy of Arts, a recent sharing event at the gallery celebrated these sessions through a sculptural installation and matching zigzag zine gifted to the participants. Co-facilitating workshops at Camden Art Centre (2021 - present) with local young people with varied SEND communications, Den! was one of the many projects from these sessions that accumulated into an interactive exhibition that invited visitors to move between the gallery and the garden to explore themes of shelter, waste and abundance. As a socially engaged artist, I enjoy blurring the workshop format with methods of intervention in public spaces and reframe the industrial nature that I encounter as an artist based in a vastly-changing city.
Workshop facilitation at Camden Arts Centre exhibition ‘Machine? Machine!’
Co-faciliating intergenerational workshops at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 202
‘Pulped Pages’ a scrapbook making sessions as part of Presse Book Publishing Fair at Forma HQ, London 2023.
Exhibitions:
Four stones, a secret, a spiral, The Netty (Fish Factory), Seydisfjordur, Iceland, October 2025
Sushi Break Part 1, LungA School, Herðubreið, Seydisfjordur, Iceland, October 2025
The Weather Show, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, July – August 2025
Strange Clouds, hARTslane, London, UK, July 2025
Future Paper Lab, Haus des papiers, Berlin, Germany, September 2024
Den!, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, July 2024
Big Birthday Weekend, National Gallery, London, UK, May 2024
Tethered, Unit 2 Gallery, London, UK, October 2023
Mermaids, Corner7 Gallery, Camden, London, UK, October 2023
Machine? Machine!, Camden Art Centre, London, UK, July – August 2023
make 2022, Freelands Foundation, London, UK, August – September 2022
ArtWalk, The Ridings Shopping Centre in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK, November 2021
Garden Wall, Deptford X Festival in collaboration with Andrea McNish + AGE UK + Lewisham Local, London, UK, July 2021
Moulding Memories, RA School Summer Show, London, Children’s Art Biennale, Huddersfield, Bagshaw Museum, Batley, West Yorkshire, UK, July 2021 – September 2021
AMPlify, WysingBroadcasts, Wysing Arts Centre, March 2021 [Online exhibition]
Susan, A text-based collaboration with Jennifer Campbell and Toby Upson hosted by ADAM at The Strand, London. November 2020.
Sitting on the fence and Garden Wall, commissioned by Deptford X Festival 2020 with Volunteer South London and Garden Wall, London, UK, 13th September – 1st October 2020 [Outdoor Exhibitions connected by a walk between Brockley and Deptford], September – 1st October 2021 [Outdoor exhibition in Brockley]
After the Rain, Eastcheap Projects, Letchworth Garden City, 11th January – 9th February 2020, UK [Solo exhibition]
Art Night, with Central Saint Martins and Granary Square, London, UK, June 22nd 2019
Residencies
LungA School, Seydisfjordur, Iceland, September - December 2025
AMPlify, Wysing Arts Center, Online Residency, November 2020 – March 2021, Onsite Resident, Cambridge, UK, July 2022
make 2022, Artist Educator residency with Freelands Foundation, London, July – August 2022
MOONGAZING, Online residency with Muddy Yard and The Icing Room, March – April 2021
Workshops and Teaching
Mini Fridge, an interactive outdoor artwork and paper pulping workshops, Whole Festival, Gräfenhainichen, Germany, July 2025
Rain break, a collaborative series of workshops with Tuke School SEND students and South London Gallery, UK, January – March 2025
Visiting Artist, with SEND artists at Art Box, Islington, March 2025
Community Artist, with AFRIL charity facilitating weekly sessions with children, Lewisham, January 2024 - Present
Workshop Facilitator, Newham Festival of Stories, November 2024
Saturday Art Club, Workshop Facilitator at Kingston University, London, UK, March 2023
Second hand, a collaboration with Eva Jones, Look Ahead Residents and The Royal Academy, London, UK, August – November 2024
Hampstead School of Art, Tutor on the Advanced and Art Foundation course, London, UK, September 2023 - August 2025
Intergenerational workshops, co-facilitated with Artist Laura Ribbons at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK. October 2022 - July 2023
Ceramic Facilitator, Facilitation with deaf children at Kings Cross Academy, London, UK, September 2022 – July 2023
Artist Facilitator at Dulwich Picture Gallery:
Mark Maker Festival, July 2023
Family Sundays, Community Outreach with Espacio Mama, Camberwell Library and St. Christophers Hospice, London, UK, August 2022 – August 2023
Matters of Interest: Return, Reunite, Redo, online and in person two-part workshop with Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects and MA students from Birmingham University, UK, 28th September + 7th October 2022
Workshop Facilitator at Drawing Room:
Pulped pages a public art workshop making books with recycled pulped surfaces with Drawing Room and Presse Books, Forma HQ, June 2023
Family Studio, October 2024, July 2023, November 2022, Co-Facilitator with Amy Barnes June 2023, Artist Forum, Facilitating CYPD and leading discussion with other artists and teachers with Drawing Room Gallery, April 2022, May 2023
Drawing with Fire with Mudchute Adventure November 2022
Everybody Everyone with Grange Hill Primary, London UK, February – April 2022