Lucy Ellerton

Lucy Ellerton

Bio

Lucy Ellerton (b.1993, London), studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 2015) and The Royal College of Art (MA, Sculpture 2023)

Working across sculpture and printmaking, Lucy Ellerton makes portraits of the people and places she knows intimately. Through labour-intensive processes, Lucy creates objects evocative of her subjects. Disposable things familiar to us but used without consideration; toilet roll, bin liners. In diligently recreating mass-produced objects, Lucy transforms throw-away objects into souvenirs representative of our contemporary culture; exploring the emotional associations we develop with ordinary things and asking how we assign meaning.

Selected Works