Lucy Glendinning
Lucy Glendinning (born 1964) is a British sculptor and installation artist based in Somerset, England. Her work uses the human body to explore ideas about identity, emotion, and what the future might hold. She draws on medical and neuroscience research and works across sculpture, installation, poetry, and drawing.
Her best‑known project is the Feather Child series, which imagines a future where genetics can freely alter bodies. These feathered figures pose questions about whether we will change ourselves, whether necessity or vanity will win, and whether people will act alone or together. The fragile feathers evoke the myth of Icarus, hinting at both aspiration and risk.
In 2024 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She is collaborating with neuroscientist Lauri Nummenmaa at the Nummenmaa Lab, University of Turku, Finland on a project called Anatomy of Emotions, which studies how we understand and represent emotions through interdisciplinary research and experimental media.
Her solo exhibitions began in 1994, and she has shown widely. Highlights include Feather Child (2012) and Identity of Shadows (2021), with additional shows at Galerie Da-End in Paris and Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art in France (2018).
Her group exhibitions include Hybriden (2024) with Berlinde De Bruyckere and Nick Cave, Naked – The Vulnerable Body, Forever in the Now (2022), and other international projects.
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