Lucy Bawden
Founder, Pocket Creatives
Lucy is a senior cultural strategist, placemaking consultant, and programme curator with over 15 years’ experience delivering high-impact cultural initiatives across the UK and internationally. She bridges the worlds of development, local government, and the arts to create projects that connect people to place and bring communities together.
As Founder of Pocket Creatives, Lucy works across visual, performing, and literary arts — shaping cultural strategies, curating public realm activations, and producing creative programmes that make culture accessible, inclusive, and impactful. Based between London, Devon, and southwest France, she combines a strong local focus on urban, rural, and coastal environments with an international outlook.