Who is Lucinda Burgess?

Lucinda Burgess is a British artist whose practice brings together painting, landscape design, and oriental philosophy to create sculptural work that explores the raw qualities of materials. Her art challenges the permanence of objects and identities. She is represented in London by Bartha Contemporary, Notting Hill.

What is Lucinda Burgess's artistic practice?

Lucinda Burgess works across a sculptural practice informed by painting, landscape design, and oriental philosophy, focusing on the inherent, raw qualities of materials. Her work interrogates the nature of permanence in both objects and identities.

Where can I buy or view Lucinda Burgess's work in London?

Lucinda Burgess's work can be viewed and acquired at Bartha Contemporary, located at 7 Ledbury Mews North, Notting Hill, London W11 2AF. Contact the gallery directly for availability and collector enquiries.

Where is Bartha Contemporary located?

Bartha Contemporary is an independent gallery situated at 7 Ledbury Mews North, Notting Hill, London W11 2AF. It is distinct from the von Bartha gallery based in Basel.

Lucinda Burgess

Born in London, United Kingdom, 1962

Lives and works in Stroud, United Kingdom

Lucinda’s background in painting, landscape design and oriental philosophy has led to a fascination with the raw elemental qualities of materials, and informs a sculptural practice that accentuates the reality of constant change, undermining the idea of a fixed thing, object, entity or identity.

Biography

Lucinda Burgess (born 1962, London) lives and works near Stroud, UK. She holds a BA Hons in Fine Art from Bath Academy of Art (1986), an Art Teachers' Post Graduate from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1987), and a Master of Fine Art from Bath School of Art and Design (2014). Her background in painting, landscape design and oriental philosophy has led to a fascination with the raw elemental qualities of materials, and informs a sculptural practice that accentuates the reality of constant change, undermining the idea of a fixed thing, object, entity or identity.

Burgess has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, with solo presentations at venues including Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; Kunstverein Brühl, near Cologne; Kunstverein Eislingen, near Stuttgart; and Space of Time Gallery, Beijing. She has shown in group exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the Jerwood Space in London, and the Mall Galleries in London, among others. Her work is held in the collection of the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. Public commissions include a large outdoor colour installation, *Floral Colour Spectrum*, for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2002), and a large-scale public sculpture in the harbour of Porthleven, Cornwall (2017).

Recognition includes the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2017), the Porthleven Prize (2014), and Gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court (2007). In 2025, she undertook a residency at the Albers Foundation in Ireland.

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