Lucinda Burgess is a British artist living and working in the UK, known for her conceptual drawing and installation. She studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art, Bath Academy of Art, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Burgess is also the 2024 winner of Royal West of England Academy Drawing Prize.

Burgess’s primary focus is on materiality – she is particularly drawn to its natural, often delicate and always changeable character. Materials are presented in their manufactured but unadorned state – minimally and simply. It could be steel, paper, graphite, glass, wood, or wax polish. The work is primarily about the changeability of these materials, especially about the changeability of the viewer’s visual field as they move around the piece. Having spent over a decade studying and meditating in a Buddhist monastery, Burgess places great emphasis on the first-hand direct experience of the viewer. She contrasts our ideas of fixed things existing in an objective world with the actual experience of relentless change. To this end Burgess often uses reflective materials which enhance the changeability of the visual field.

Burgess primarily uses pencil and makes drawings that are morphing into sculptures. Her unique sensibility and conceptual qualities are recognized by major drawing prize exhibitions in the UK including the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, Royal West of England Academy Drawing Prize 2024 and Derwent Drawing Prize 2024. Burgess has been exhibited regularly in the UK and Germany, her artworks were shown at the Royal Academy, Bartha Contemporary in London; Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK; Kunstverein Brühl, Cologne and Kunstverein Eislingen, Stuttgart in Germany. In 2025, Burgess expands her international profile with a new solo exhibition with Space of Time Gallery, Beijing, China.