Lucy Ray is a Melbourne artist raised in Yeppoon, on the traditional land of the Darumbal People of Central Queensland, living between Australia and Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is represented in Australia by Flinders Lane Gallery. 

Her work blends the real and the imagined in scenes that combine the sense of being an outsider, feelings of being alone but not alone and bridging the ordinary and the uncanny. She strives to capture the natural world and small everyday things contemplatively by presenting an altered interpretation.

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Recurring themes in her work include loneliness, nostalgia and the notions of sonder and liminality. These themes are explored through detailed drawings composed of multi-layered graphite marks on paper, a process that is meditative and creates a textured dimensionality and movement.

Creating narratives in bleak and desolate environments, populated by strange figures and out-of-place objects, invites the viewer to contemplate more than what is seen in her work. The works become a peculiar mirror on which the viewers can layer their perceptions and meaning.​

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Moving part-time to Abu Dhabi in 2019, she has actively pursued the art community in Australia and internationally, exhibiting and hosting a workshop with Black and White Diary's travelling gallery in Dubai and Melbourne through invitational group shows and collectives.

In 2022 she had her second solo show in Melbourne, Australia. Attended the SIM art residency, Korpúlfsstaðir, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Is a finalist in several art prizes and was awarded the works on paper prize for Brunswick Street Gallery's Fifty Squared Art Prize in Melbourne, VIC.

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This year welcomes a group show at Flinders Lane Gallery and Outré Gallery, a finalist in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize and Dobell Drawing Prize, published work with Booooooom! in Tomorrow’s Talent Book III and a December residency at Vermont Studio Center.