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I live and work in Margate, hand-building sculptural vessels using coiling and slabs, often casting parts of my own body, my children’s, and bits of fruit or animals to blend the sacred with the everyday.

My work is tactile, emotionally layered, and full of sagging forms, pooling glazes, and imperfect surfaces that speak to care, rupture, and repair.

I often draw directly onto the clay—spontaneous, mythic, feminine marks that celebrate the mess and magic of lived experience.

My practice expands into immersive environments: hanging macramé sculptures, embroidered textiles, sound installations.

At its core, my work centres on the body, the home, and time—where softness, fury, and tenderness live side by side. I use traditional materials in contemporary, sometimes subversive ways to question value, permanence, and the invisibility of domestic labour.

I’m a permanent studio holder at Tracey Emin’s TKE Studios and have shown work at Saatchi Gallery, Matt’s Gallery, and Flowers Gallery.

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Mercedes Lucy is a Margate-based ceramicist whose hand-built vessels explore motherhood, grief, transformation, and decay as tender, generative forces.

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