Lucy Bergman is a Senior Lecturer of BA (Hons) Visual Communication, Year Leader for Level 5 and teaches across all three years of the course.

Lucy has 20 years professional experience as a visual artist and designer with a focus on experimental narrative through moving image, performance, illustration and music. Her freelance practice has focused on community regeneration and emotional wellbeing projects with a view to improve cultural, inter-generational and social cohesion particularly within rural communities around Yorkshire and the North West.

In 2022 Lucy was invited to speak at both the International Symposium of Autoethnography and Narrative and the International Conference of Qualitative Inquiry on the subject of her autoethnographic video performance ‘Rheums’. 

Her solo show of 3D illustration ‘Apologues: An Awkward Combination of Things’ was exhibited at The Whitaker Museum & Gallery in Rossendale between June and September 2025.

Lucy’s current research investigates the work and pedagogy of Roy Ascott and his theories surrounding Art Schools as Organisms. Radical approaches to arts education and creative practice as informed by Cybernetics and Behaviourism underpin her arts-based research into strengthening student/practitioner/teacher relationship with critical and reflective process. 

Lucy is a member of the special interest research group: ‘Thing Power’, a collaborative arts-based research project exploring the dynamic and symbolic nature of objects.  

Creative Projects

Bergman, L. (2025) Apologues: An Awkward Combination of Things.

Bergman, L. (2021) Rheums.

Bergman, L. (2015) Antarctic Circles.