Lucy Sparrow
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Lucy SparrowEnglish Breakfast, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in) -
Lucy SparrowFish and Chips, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in) -
Lucy SparrowFish Fingers, Chips and Peas, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in)
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Lucy SparrowLasagna, Chips, Garlic Bread and Salad, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in) -
Lucy SparrowPie, Mash and Gravy, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in) -
Lucy SparrowPizza, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in) -
Lucy SparrowRoast Dinner, 2025Plate of food containing felt pieces curated by the artist and framed in a perpex box.
From a limited edition of 20 and featuring exclusive items.46 x 46 x 5 cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 2 in)
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Lucy SparrowBourdon Street Chemist Cabinet, 2020Medicine cabinet containing felt chemist products curated by the artist. From a limited edition of 50 and featuring exclusive items. Custom made wooden cabinet with mirrored back, plexi shelves and plexi doors.
4-6 week lead time.60 x 80 x 12 cm (23 5/8 x 31 1/2 x 4 3/4 in) -
Lucy SparrowBourdon Street Chemist Cabinet, 2020Medicine cabinet containing felt chemist products curated by the artist. From a limited edition of 50 and featuring exclusive items. Custom made wooden cabinet with mirrored back, plexi shelves and plexi doors.
4-6 week lead time.60 x 40 x 12 cm (23 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 4 3/4 in)
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Biography
Lucy Sparrow is one of the most exciting and original artists working in the UK today. Her practice is quirky yet subversive, luring the audience in with her soft, tactile, colourful felt creations before hitting them hard with her comment on subjects including the demise of the traditional high street and the fragmentation of community.
She took the art world by storm in Summer 2014 with the opening of her fully stocked felt Cornershop installation in London’s East End. With queues around the block and wall to wall media coverage, it was both a commercial and critical success. Warmongery, a controversial sell-out installation exploring the issues around gun control and mental health followed in May 2015 and in October 2015, Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium opened its doors in the back streets of London’s Soho, showcasing the artist’s complete commitment to her artistic vision, recreating an entire sex shop in glorious technicolour felt, including a fully working, animated felt peep show. In 2016, the BBC commissioned Lucy to recreates the Crown Jewels in felt, to celebrate HRH The Queen’s official 90th birthday.
In May 2017, Lucy undertook her first solo show in the US, opening The Convenience Store, a New York bodega stocked with 9,000 felted artworks. Scheduled to run for a month, the store was an instant hit, selling out in just over two weeks. The bodega dominated the NYC art scene, appearing everywhere from the New York Times to the massive TV screens on Times Square. Returning to the US in August 2018, Lucy opened Sparrow Mart, a fully-felted supermarket in Downtown Los Angeles. Complete with 31,000 hand-painted works. Another instant hit, it generated global press attention and a round the block queue.
December 2018 saw Lucy’s work unveiled in the windows of the Hermés flagship Store on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills and she dominated the headlines at Miami Art Week with her installation piece, Triple Art Bypass, that saw the artist perform ‘live’ surgery to huge crowds at Context Art Fair.
In 2019, Lucy created the cover artwork for the Spring issue of Juxtapoz magazine and opened her debut museum exhibition Lucy Sparrow’s Felt Imaginarium at M Woods in Beijing, China. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Rockefeller Centre in NYC played host to Lucy’s on 6th, a fully stocked felt deli and immersive art experience.
Lucy Sparrow lives in a felt cave in an undisclosed location, with her companion Basil.
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Exhibitions
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Bourdon Street Chippy
Lucy Sparrow 1 Aug - 14 Sep 2025The Bourdon Street Chippy, an interactive, hand-stitched fish and chip shop in the heart of London, will open for six weeks, inviting visitors into a nostalgic, tactile reimagining of one...Read more -
Bourdon Street Chemist
Lucy Sparrow | 20 Bourdon Street 19 Apr - 8 May 2021The Bourdon Street Chemist by British artist Lucy Sparrow is the artist’s seventh major installation. It marks her return to the UK after four years of exhibiting her faux-reality felt...Read more -
Wall of Small
Group show | 20 Bourdon Street 30 Jan - 19 Feb 2020A group show of contemporary work on paper, sculpture and painting celebrating artwork successfully executed in a diminutive size. Hung side-by-side, the installation highlights their modest scale. Unburdened by size,...Read more
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Press
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Fabric fish and chips? Step inside the chippy made of...felt?!
Lucy SparrowBBC One Newsround -
The chippy where the food is made from felt
Lucy SparrowBBC Online, August 1, 2025 -
You can now buy fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt
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Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt
Lucy SparrowPA News Agency, The Herald, August 1, 2025
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Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt
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Lucy Sparrow Serves Up a Felted Fish and Chip Shop in London
Lucy SparrowBrian Boucher, Artnet News -
Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt
Lucy SparrowClaire Hayhurst, The Independent, July 31, 2025 -
Fish, chips & 65,000 felt pieces: Lucy Sparrow's back on Bourdon Street
Lucy SparrowKaty Cowan, Creative Boom, July 30, 2025
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The felt fish and chip shop where nothing is edible
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Counter Culture
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Art of Cookery
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Fish and Stitch
Lucy SparrowCITYAM, July 30, 2025
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Artist Lucy Sparrow is beloved by the A-list for her quirky fabric food. The irony is that anorexia almost killed her
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iNews | Lucy Sparrow
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The Guardian | Lucy Sparrow
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ITV News | Lucy Sparrow
ITV News, April 21, 2021
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Publications
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Videos
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Lucy Sparrow's Bourdon Street Chemist
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Bourdon Street Chemist
Lucy Sparrow March 18, 2021Lucy Sparrow | Bourdon Street Chemist The Bourdon Street Chemist by British artist Lucy Sparrow will be the artist’s seventh major installation marks her return...Read more -
Behind The Felt
Lucy Sparrow January 19, 2021Lucy Sparrow | Bourdon Street Chemist The Bourdon Street Chemist by British artist Lucy Sparrow will be the artist’s seventh major installation marks her return...Read more
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