155. Lucy Churchill - My Body My Rights' (ii)

2026
Ink on paper
17 x 12 cm

Lucy Churchill’s artwork champions women’s sexual autonomy in the post-#MeToo era. Primarily recognised for her sculptural practice in stone, Churchill has expanded her feminist art-activism into multimedia forms including film, installation, and works on paper, following support from an Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice grant.

Her practice combines the physicality and permanence of stone carving with urgent contemporary conversations surrounding sexuality, consent, rage, shame, and female agency. Through sculpture, drawing, film, and activist-led projects, Churchill reclaims and reimagines representations of the female body, often confronting histories of suppression, objectification, and silence.

Rooted in traditional craftsmanship yet politically charged in subject matter, her work balances monumentality with vulnerability. The tactile nature of carving remains central to her approach, while newer media allow her to broaden the emotional and social reach of her feminist practice.

Churchill trained through traditional apprenticeships within the stone-carving trade, including Dick Reid’s Workshop, York; Richard Kindersley’s Workshop, London; and The Carving Workshop, Cambridge (1992–1999). She completed a Diploma in Historic Stone Carving at the City & Guilds School of Art, London (1990–1992), following a BA (Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design at Middlesex University, London (1985–1987).

Recent exhibitions and projects include Shame Ends Here, a multimedia art-activism project at City Screen PictureHouse Cinema, York (2026); Golden at Norman Rea Gallery, York (2026); Strength and Rage: Recent Works on Paper at City Screen PictureHouse Cinema, York (2025); Manchester Art Fair with Art of Protest Gallery (2023); Make Space and Body Architect at Norman Rea Gallery, York (2023); Museum of Sex Objects at The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London (2022); Lucy Churchill: New Work at Art of Protest Gallery, York (2022); Mother Earth: Nature, Nurture and Fertility at Bull Farm Gallery, New York (2022); Carrie Scott’s curated pop-up exhibition at The Olympic Cinema, London (2022); the Seattle Erotic Art Fair (2022); and Transforming the Sacred Wound: A Celebration of Female Sexuality in the Age of #MeToo at Art of Protest Gallery, York (2020). Earlier exhibitions include The Art of Remembering: Memorial Art in the Landscape at West Dean, West Sussex (2009).

Churchill is currently Artist in Residence at York St John University (2025–2026).