Professor Lucy Orta
Doctor of Letters

Lucy is a textiles artist working in the fields of sculpture and installation. She originally trained as a fashion designer at Nottingham Trent University. Since the 1990s she has designed what she calls architectures with soul, exploring themes such as sustainable development and recycling.

She is a member of the University Research Centre for Fashion Body and Material Cultures and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion, part of the University of the Arts London.

In 2002 she became the first Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion in the London College of Fashion, where she is now professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment.

Professor Orta is a member of the European Cultural Parliament and a member of the United Nations Environment Program in partnership with Natural World Museum. She has won several prizes including the 2002 Andy Warhol Foundation Prize, with USF Contemporary Art Museum USA, and an award for sculpture with an environmental message in 2007.

Professor Orta has had her work exhibited around the world including at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.