Lucia is an artist based in Somerset, UK. She makes and uses objects, sculptural interventions, live actions, drawing and film. Her work explores the boundaries between outer and inner worlds, relationships with each other and the environment that surrounds us.

She has both lived and studied (USP) in Brazil where her father is a botanist specialising in the flora of the North East and who has a large collection within the herbarium Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

This has influenced her practice, and in 2019 after receiving a Somerset Art Works (SAW) bursary she began a project based on plants and people started as an exploration of her relationship with her dad through botany, sitting somewhere between science and emotion.

In May she launched ‘The Unsettlement’ sound walks with writer Claire Carroll, Frome. Lucia’s walk: Weeds are Community is an invitation to look closer at the organic fabric around us through weeds, small but determined life forces that exist in tandem with the human spirit. Supported by Frome Town council and Black Swan Arts.

2023 Lúcia took part in the Brazilian botanical congress 2023, Belém, presenting her project based on relationships between plants and people.

2022 artist in residence at Mirante Xique Xique, Igatu, Brazil, based on a book of botanical trails written by her parents within the Chapada Diamantina.

August 2024 she was invited with artist Simbah Pilé to present at the British Academy Summer Showcase, facilitating engagement through collage, decolonising our relationships with plants and gardens. Including a plant walk tour of St James’ Park. A Botanical Encounters project, founded by Bath University Lecturer Christins Horvath.

Current project ‘drifting dialogues’ is in collaboration with artist Claire Beale supported by Arts Council England through SAW:
Watch this space!