Second Lives Artist Conversations

Lewin’s first ‘life’ was in fashion. She had an influential career as founder and Creative Director of Whistles, running it for 35 years before selling in 2001 and moving to work as Creative Director of Liberty. Then, Lewin left fashion for a career in Art. In 2017 she received her Masters in Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art where, while studying, she won the prestigious Young Masters award. Her work has been exhibited internationally, notably at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Messums, The Harley Museum Gallery, Dover Street Market and Connolly England.

Lucille Lewin uses porcelain, glass and metal to explore the collision between nature and humanity. Intricately crafted and forceful, these sculptures mirror the resilience of the natural world.

Marice Cumber is a British artist whose practice explores the self and identity. Her work takes on the role of being physical, built responses to the emotions, lived experience and complexities of life and how one navigates these.

Central to Marice's ceramics work are reaffirming personal messages and statements - both to the artist and the audience. These narratives, taken from personal diaries and notebooks, summarise moments of reflection, contemplation, encouragement and acceptance - the artist is observing herself and commenting on who she is and what is within her. At the core of this is a personal navigation of negative mental health, healing and recovery. Her current work explores themes around her Jewish identity, the connectivity of family, intergenerational trauma and belonging and the constant awareness of being an outsider to the mainstream. 

Marice's work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections.

Emma Richardson is an artist and musician whose creative career spans 20 years.

She graduated from Wimbledon School of Art, London with a BA in Painting in 2004 and currently lives and works in London. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in London, Margate, Southampton, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Madrid. In 2021 she received Develop Your Creative Practice funding from Arts Council England and in 2022 completed three years on the Turps Correspondence Course. 2026 sees the opening of her first solo institutional exhibition ‘Levitate Me’ at Southampton City Art Gallery.

Richardson is also a musician. She previously wrote and performed with Band of Skulls for six albums, with her paintings appearing on several of their releases. She is currently the bassist and backing vocalist with the Pixies and contributed to their latest album The Night The Zombies Came.

Kate Jackson is a visual artist, singer and songwriter, and former lead singer of The Long Blondes.

Feeling lost in the mire of the music industry, Jackson decided to draw something every day. This disciplined practice soon led to a series of architectural drawings which would form the basis of her future work.

Inspired by hours of staring out of a tour bus window as a musician in her 20s, she now observes the urban landscape – Brutalist architecture, motorway flyovers, factory buildings and bus stations – in search of a lost utopian future that never quite came to pass. She is interested in the transience of architecture and the evolving urban landscape, in the sculptural qualities of concrete, and in the beauty of light and shadow cast on these structures at certain moments in time.

Kate’s paintings are acts of preservation, exploring trace, memory, nostalgia and sense of place, as well as challenging our concept of beauty.

Hettie Judah is a writer and curator. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Frieze and The Times Literary Supplement, and writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine. Her writing on art can also be found in Art Quarterly, Art Monthly, ArtReview and other publications with 'art' in the title. Between 2016 and 2024 she was the chief art critic for the British daily newspaper The i.

Hettie is curator of the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood which toured venues in the UK between 2024 and 2025, before transferring to VISUAL in Ireland, where it ran until early 2026. The standalone book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood is published by Thames & Hudson.

Carrie is an American/English curator, art historian, TV presenter and art writer living in London.

Over the past 16 years she has worked with numerous galleries, businesses, collectors and artists worldwide. While at the University of Washington, Seattle doing a Master’s in Art History, Scott was noted curator of the Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University's Lee Center, and Director of the James Harris Gallery also in Seattle, Washington. While working with James Harris she curated the first solo show of Rashid Johnson’s work outside of Chicago. From there she went on to be Director of Nicole Klagsbrun gallery in New York.

In 2008, Carrie Scott opened Carrie Scott & Partners, a business that is at once an art consultancy, gallery, and curatorial endeavor.

Dr Sharon Taylor is a London-based ceramic artist whose work explores themes of repair, resilience, regeneration and the human condition. Originally trained in medicine at University College London, she studied life drawing at the Slade School of Fine Art (1986-1992) and later continued her artistic education in life painting and sculpture at City Lit (1992-2005) and Central Saint Martins (2005). She subsequently trained extensively with master potter Romilly Graham before establishing an independent ceramics practice.

Drawing on over twenty years' experience working with seriously ill children and young people as a Consultant child Psychaitrist and Paediatrician, Taylor brings a unique perspective to her ceramic practice.