In June 2024 Lucy Sollitt will take up the position as FutureEverything’s Creative Director at a critical and celebratory period in the history of the organisation. As we look ambitiously towards the future and prepare to move into our 4th decade, Lucy’s bold creative vision and exploration of art, society, technology and ecology will lead the organisation into an exciting new era.

Lucy’s vision will build upon FutureEverything’s core mission and portfolio which has, since 1995, been at the forefront of digital culture globally, commissioning, curating and producing public-realm exhibitions and installations, and nurturing talent through residency opportunities and artist development programmes. 

As Creative Director of FutureEverything, Lucy will focus on exploring pathways for ecological restoration amidst hybridity, innovatively merging art, technology, and ecosystemic change, as seen in her most recent work The Synthetic Sacred. 

Throughout her 20 year career as a cultural leader, creative strategist and curator, she has built a strong reputation for her original thinking and agenda-setting strategic initiatives and cultural programmes, including the creative and critical possibilities of emerging technologies – from AI to games, quantum, blockchain and synthetic biology. 

As Associate for Rhizome, Lucy brought Seven on Seven to London and launched the pioneering publication, Intersections, on art and emerging technologies for the British Council. She advised on the first international cultural programme on quantum technologies for the Goethe Institut, and co-curated the States of Play: Roleplay Reality exhibition at FACT LIverpool, that was at the forefront of integrating the fields of art and video games.

Lucy has made significant contributions to evolving future art ecosystems, including  an Art and Technology Innovation programme with Innovate UK whilst at Arts Council England, and was the Cultural Content and Technology Lead for the UK Government’s first Digital Culture White Paper. She authored the first independent report on the Future of the Art Market, and curated Tokenomics: A New Economy of Art on behalf of DACS. 

Working alongside our Executive Director, Chris Wright, Lucy will bring her significant experience, knowledge of digital culture, and creative vision to drive the organisation’s ongoing transformation and lead an innovative and ambitious programme of world-class public artworks, cross-sector collaborations, and digital debates.