Mercedes Lucy - Hanging Lemon Vulvas

Mercedes makes ceramics that are as personal as they are powerful—born from the kitchen, grief, motherhood, and the need to create in the chaos.

Her work is fast, intuitive, and full of feeling—driven by an ADHD-fuelled mind and a deep curiosity about the complexity of womanhood, motherhood, identity, relationships, and cliché. Her works carry stories, humour, contradictions, and observations—each one a fragment of something bigger.

She is a Studio Holder at Tracey Emin’s TKE Studios. Mercedes Lucy lives and works in Margate, Kent.

Hanging Lemon Vulvas by Mercedes Workman is a lush, tactile sculpture that pulses with juiciness and tension. Its plump, ripe forms pulled taut by rope, balancing sweetness and submission, pleasure and control. Suspended like both sacred offerings and butchered meat, the piece blurs ritual and restraint, complicating notions of care, containment, and the ways female bodies are displayed. With humour and cheeky irreverence, Workman uses playfulness as subversion, drawing the viewer in with laughter before unsettling questions about eroticism, gendered labor, and reproductive identity take hold. This is not a singular body but a tangled, fertile rebellion, a chorus of vulvas reclaiming space as both symbol and flesh, unapologetically abundant and defiantly unhidden.

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