Artist
Performance Designer
Educator
Lucy Algar is an artist, performance designer, and educator. Formerly Course Leader of BA Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, she now works fluidly between studio practice, collaborative projects, and teaching - with drawing as the consistent thread across all of it.
Lucy Algar makes drawings in the presence of performance. Working alongside dancers, choreographers, and designers, she uses line as a means of thinking, witnessing, and building trust inside the making process.
Drawing Performance Project
The Drawing Performance Project collective grew from Lucy Algar’s desire to create a dynamic, collaborative space where designers, performers, educators, and visual artists can encounter, explore, and develop each other’s practices through drawing. The aim is that exploring movement and drawing together enables participants to connect and inspire new ways of making performance. She has led these performative encounters and workshops in the UK and internationally.
Work
Studio drawings and works on paper made during rehearsals, performances, and residencies. Drawings that emerge from proximity and attention, from being inside a room charged with choreographic thinking. A body of work built over years of close working relationships with dancers, choreographers, and designers.
About Lucy Algar
Lucy Algar, BA MA FHEA is an artist, performance designer and educator based in London. She was Course Leader of the BA Theatre Design course at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL from August 2013 – August 2025.
Her work includes extensive design for performance both for live theatre and for film and TV. She has also created installations in public environments & had solo exhibitions. She is an experienced educator and has taught across the UK and internationally (China, S.Korea, Prague, Maastricht). In 2022 she was nominated, by UAL, for a National Teaching Fellowship. Her research and practice focuses on the role of drawing as the primary investigative and communication tool for performance designers.
Latest News
Artist Residency at The Arctic Hideaway, Norway
From the end of April 2026, Lucy Algar undertook a two-week artist residency at The Arctic Hideaway on the island of Sørvær in the Fleinvær archipelago, Norway. This residency offered her time and space to delve deeply into mark making and the ways in which the environment, the sea and the weather can interact with and affect the outcome of drawings.
