Lucy is an artist, arts administrator, and educator who first arrived in the NT in 1992 and has spent most of her time living and working on Arrernte Country. She has experience across a wide range of arts organisations including the Araluen Arts Centre, Arts NT, Tasmanian Regional Arts, Central Craft and Red Hot Arts. Her art practice spans media art, ceramics, and community cultural development; focusing on collaborative artmaking and response to place. For 20-plus years she has co-facilitated arts projects that support increased awareness of Mparntwe sacred sites. Most significantly the Yeperenye Sculpture at the Araluen Cultural Precinct and the Alice to Mparntwe Sacred Sites Tours for Artists that have been running since 2007. She is currently undertaking a creative PhD (through Charles Darwin University) focused on custodian storytelling as a tool for arts-based social action; her project seeks to extend the creative impact of the Alice to Mparntwe tours.