Drawing is a vital tool for designers, not only to communicate their design ideas but also to provoke and interrogate them in collaboration with others. As theatre designer Alison Chitty says ‘Drawing is my way out of the black hole. It is immediate and fast; for me it is the foundation of the design process’.

Drawing is also central to Lucy's practice, and she has always taught using drawing as the core process to enable students to investigate, invent, clarify and communicate — primarily with theatre and performance design students, and whilst Course Leader of the BA Theatre Design course at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL (2013–2025).

The Drawing Performance Project collective grew from her desire to create a dynamic space where designers, performers, educators and visual artists can encounter, explore and develop each other's practices through drawing. The aim being that exploring movement and drawing together enables connection and inspires new ways of making performance. Movement artists Kirill Burlov and Chihiro Kawasaki have worked with Lucy since she began the collective in 2016, and many other dancers have joined over the years.

Lucy has led these performative encounters and workshops both online and in person, in the UK and internationally. Highlights include workshops for the Stage Design course at the Tonneelacademie in Maastricht (2014/'17/'24/'25), for London Design Festival in 2023/'24 and '25, at K-Arts, Seoul in 2023, and the 3-day workshop that Lucy and Kirill Burlov led for the 2023 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.

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