MERCEDES LUCY

Mercedes makes ceramics that are as personal as they are powerful—born from the kitchen, grief, motherhood, and the need to create in the chaos.

After moving to Margate and discovering Clayspace, a local community ceramics studio, Mercedes began working with clay while raising young children. Following the death of her mother in 2020, what began as a few handmade tiles for a kitchen splashback quickly transformed into an expansive, cathartic project: hundreds of tiles across rooms, walls, and life.

Her work is fast, intuitive, and full of feeling—driven by an ADHD-fuelled mind and a deep curiosity about the complexity of womanhood, motherhood, identity, relationships, and cliché. Her works carry stories, humour, contradictions, and observations—each one a fragment of something bigger.

She is a Studio Holder at Tracey Emin’s TKE Studios. Mercedes Lucy lives and works in Margate, Kent.