Following her Bourdon Street Chemist installation, the artist is back with another large-scale project
Back in 2021, felt artist Lucy Sparrow took over the Lyndsey Ingram gallery in Mayfair and turned it into a fully-stocked felt pharmacy, with everything from tampons to toothpaste painstakingly recreated and handmade in felt. This summer she’s returning to the gallery for her first UK show in four years with The Bourdon Street Chippy.
For this installation, Lucy is taking on one of the most quintessentially British institutions – the fish & chip shop – and rendering it completely out of felt. There’ll be a counter created in fabric, hand-made banquette seating, and felt menus, shop signs and even a gallery of sewn portraits of famous former patrons on the walls.
And when it comes to the chippy tea, there’ll be fish, chips (15 different shapes in varying colours!), scraps, peas, tartare sauce, curry sauce, vinegar, ketchup, mayo and salt, with over 65,000 individually hand-crafted felt pieces in the exhibit. The installation will be on show for six weeks across August and September, and it’s free to visit, so get on down there for a chip shop supper like no other.
Key Information
Dates | Fri 1st August – Sun 14th September 2025
Address | 20 Bourdon Street, London, W1K 3PL
For more information | lyndseyingram.com
