Career
She works at the intersection of contemporary art and craft setting the agenda for textiles within the urban art scene. She works mainly with felt and wool, creating over-sized soft versions of existing objects, according to her website. Her work often features the SSRI prescription drug, Prozac.
Sparrow has been involved in a number of notable group shows in the United Kingdom, for instance, she was a contributor to the Victoria and Albert Museum 2013 travelling street art collection alongside Banksy, Blek le Rat, Jamie Hewlett, Pure Evil, Doctorate*Face and urban illustrator Oh Jiwon.
Her first solo show at Hoxton Gallery was "Imitation" which recreated famous artworks out of felt, including a shark in a tank by Damien Hirst. In 2014, Sparrow created a Kickstarter campaign to fund her first major exhibition. was a soft sculpture recreation of a British newsagents installed in an derelict cornershop in East London.
According to news sources, it took Sparrow and her assistant seven months and 300 sq meters of felt to create the 4,000 items on display. In 2015, Lucy Sparrow made an installation of a sex shop in London"s Soho where she cited her inspiration for the work was her five years working as a stripper in a nightclub.
The exhibition was called Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium and had pornography magazines, whips, toys and jars full of STIs.
