Ani Lacy is an American artist, curator, and art historian based in Bath, England. Her artistic practice focuses on ceramics, mixed-media sculpture, and installation, with particular attention to themes of migration, cultural memory, impermanence, and belonging. Working as a ceramic artist who often uses wild clay, she explores how material transformation reflects both personal and diasporic histories.

Lacy creates hand-built ceramic sculptures, foraged-material works, and prints derived from her digital collages, all of which investigate ecological memory and the impact of displacement on cultural identity. Her mixed-media process foregrounds slowness, touch, and close engagement with landscape, positioning clay and natural materials as active participants in storytelling. Through this approach, she examines how fractured histories shaped by Indigenous erasure and colonial violence remain present within material culture.

After completing a Master of Fine Arts at Bath Spa University in 2021, Lacy exhibited her work in Bath, London, New York, and Japan. She completed a residency with the BEPPU Project in Kyushu, Japan, where she immersed herself in local clay traditions and community-based ceramic practices. She has delivered public talks in Japan and England, and in Spring 2023 she was a featured artist in A Gathering Together, a literary journal dedicated to elevating work that resonates across time and place.

Lacy’s current practice continues to explore wild clay, diasporic continuity, and the role of ceramics and installation in shaping cultural narratives. She is completing a PhD in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, specialising in Black Atlantic ceramics, practice-based research, and material and visual culture.