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Embrace II plays on themes of a lack of touch, created in a period of increased physical distance and isolation. The work is a translation of a paper collage into steel using industrial processes, and the metal sheet is bent and folded using the same tactile logic as a piece of paper. Embrace II was created as the original model and mock up for a larger outdoor sculpture that stood over 2m tall that was installed on the windy rooftop of Bold Tendencies, London, during Summer 2020. This piece can be hung indoors or outdoors and will spin in a light breeze hung on thread and catch the sun's rays on a bright day.

Lucy Gregory (b. London, 1994 ) graduated from The Ruskin School of Art, 2016 and The Royal College of Art, Sculpture, 2018. She creates large-scale ‘kinetic collages’ that rely on audience participation to activate surreal mechanisms.

Her sculptural environments play with a collision between bodies and machines, to create the feeling you are walking into an animation – referencing the body and its flexible instability flattened on screen, and the often violent slapstick humour of cartoons.

Lucy won the Ingram Prize and her work is now part of the Ingram Collection. She received the Gilbert Bayes Trust Studio Grant and the RCA Arts & Humanities Art Criticism Prize, and won the People’s Choice Award for the National Sculpture Prize. She has recently exhibited at Bold Tendencies, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, MK Gallery and The Lightbox Gallery as well as being included as a finalist in the 2021 Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award at the Saatchi Gallery.