17. Lucy Hutchings
Can I Bum a Ciggie
oil paint, dry pigment and charcoal on canvas
125 x 105 cm.
2025
£ 3500 - 5500
Lucy Hutchings (b. Hong Kong, 2001) is a British painter whose practice is interested in spotlighting the absurdity of human tendencies, focusing on behaviours surrounding shame.
Lucy reimagines the familiar, contemporary world as unsettling and carnivalesque, visually constructed from personal experiences of debauchery when inhibition is lost. By drawing from real-life events, these humorously uncomfortable paintings serve as a mirror to the unique nature of human behaviours. Bakhtin’s theories on grotesque realism, alongside the unpredictable, deviant paintings by Bosch, both influence her depictions of hedonism. The mouth, along with its external and internal surroundings, plays an important role in her paintings, exploring the open and penetrative as a visual device to evoke our fears of abjection. Orifices, bodily fluids, laughter and pain are subjects to push and pull compositions that are both pleasurable and grotesque, seductive and repulsive.
Lucy has recently graduated with an MA Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School. She has previously exhibited with Maza.art in their 5.10.23 Madrid Auction, as well as exhibiting in various exhibitions across the UK.