Press
Looking for the latest press coverage, interviews, or features on Lucy’s work? This page is a hub for all things press — from magazine articles and exhibition highlights to behind-the-scenes interviews and TV appearances. Have a browse and see where Lucy’s felt creations have been making headlines.
The Beginning of Convenience
DeYoung, Bill ‘A New FloridaRAMA ‘Shop’ to be Made Entirely of Felt’ 18th November 2025, St Pete Catalyst
‘Lucy Sparrow’s All-Felt Convenience Store Coming to FloridaRAMA Starting November 21’ 11th November 2025, Tampa Bay 28
Calise, Gabrielle ‘Creator of Tampa’s 50,000 Item Viral Felt Grocery Store to Return with New Shop’ 12th November 2025, Tampa Bay Times
Carskadon, Bob ‘Internationally-Renowned Artist Lucy Sparrow Returns with New 13,000-Piece Exhibition’ 10th November 2025, I Love The Burg
Zucker, Brian ‘A Convenience Store Made Entirely Out of Felt is Coming to St Pete’ 4th November 2025, St Peter Rising
Durosier, Alisha ‘Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Returns to Tampa Bay with St. Pete ‘Quick Shop” 19th November 2025, Creative Loafing
Christina, ‘Lucy Sparrow is Making an Entire Chippy Out of Felt’ 3rd July 2025, London on the Inside
Reynolds, Laura ‘London’s Getting A New Chippy… Made Entirely From Felt’ 9th July 2025, The Londonist
‘The Bourdon Street Chippy – A Chip Shop (Made Out of Felt)’ 11th July 2025, The Nudge
‘Lucy Sparrow Stitches up Mayfair With the Bourdon Street Chippy’ 11th July 2025, Artlyst
‘Lucy Sparrow Opens The Bourdon Street Chippy’ 22nd July 2025, Inspiring City
Edmonds, Helen ‘London’s Latest Chip Shop Where Nothing is Edible’ 29th July 2025, The Fry Magazine
Hayhurst, Claire ‘Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt’ 30th July 2025, The Irish News
Hayhurst, Claire ‘Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt’ 31st July 2025, The Standard
Hayhurst, Claire ‘Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt’ 30th July 2025, The Independent
‘The chippy where the food is made from felt’ 30th July 2025, BBC News
Boucher, Brian ‘Lucy Sparrow Serves Up a Felted Fish and Chip Shop in London’ 30th July 2025, Artnet News
Hayhurst, Claire ‘Artist to serve up fish and chips at takeaway shop made entirely from felt’ 30th July 2025, Yahoo News
‘Felt fish and chip shop opens in London with 65,000 items’ 30th July 2025, Upday News
Cowan, Katy ‘Fish, chips & 65,000 felt pieces: Lucy Sparrow’s back on Bourdon Street’ 31st July 2025, Creative Boom
Brunkhorst, Meike ‘You can’t beat a bit o’cod, love’ 1st August 2025, FAD Magazine
Ip, Nigel ‘REVIEW | Lucy Sparrow presents The Bourdon Street Chippy – Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London’ 1st August 2025
‘Material girl: Muddy meets artist Lucy Sparrow’ 4th August 2025, Muddy Stilettos
Carlson, Cajsa ‘Lucy Sparrow hand-stitches London fish and chip shop entirely out of felt’ 6th August 2025, Dezeen
Barandy, Kat ‘On London’s Bourdon Street, Lucy Sparrow recreates typical english chippy entirely in felt’ 6th August 2025, Creative Boom
Mothes, Kate ‘In ‘Bourdon Street Chippy,’ Lucy Sparrow Celebrates a British Culinary Institution in Felt’ 7th August 2025, Colossal
Mitchell, Chris ‘Review: A felt ‘chippy’ opens in London – and it’s well worth a visit from Harrow’ 6th August 2025, Harrow Online
Duong, Amy ‘Lucy Sparrow’s Bourdon Street Chippy Stitches a Full Chippy World in Felt’ 7th August 2025, Trend Hunter
Guru-Murfy, Krishnan ‘The artist using her eating disorder recovery as inspiration’ 6th August 2025, Channel 4 News
Diptyque Festive Felt Delicatessen
Graves Farran, Laia ‘Diptyque X Lucy Sparrow: A Magical Collaboration’ 5th December 2024, Forbes
Roberts, Lauretta ‘In Pictures: Diptyque’s festive felt collab with artist Lucy Sparrow’ 20th November 2024, The Industry Beauty
Tan, Hannah ‘Diptyque partners with British artist Lucy Sparrow for a felt-inspired holiday collection’ 25th November 2024, Moodie Davitt Report
May, Amanda ‘Diptyque to open ‘quirky pop aesthetic’ Christmas activation’ 23rd October 2025, Cosmetics Business
Polinsky, Abby ‘Janelle Monáe, Yvesmark Chery, and More Join Sarah Harrelson, Lucy Sparrow, and Jessie Dawes in Toasting Diptyque’s Holiday Collection in Miami’ 11th December 2024, Cultured Mag
Fenner, Justin ‘How London’s Luxury Stores Convinced the Holiday Crowds to Shop in Person’ 23rd December 2024, Robb Report
Nichol, Katie ‘Diptyque celebrates the festive season with felt artist Lucy Sparrow’ 10th December 2024, Formes De Luxe
‘A Magical Festive Season with Diptyque’ Bond Street Journal
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Lunch
‘Enter the Fluffy Trippy World of Artist Lucy Sparrow’s Tampa Fresh Foods’ 2nd February 2022, Hunger Magazine
Daly, Sean ‘British Artist Lucy Sparrow Opens Walk-Thru Art Installation of 50,000 Grocery Items Made of Felt’ 19th January 2022, ABC News
Harlan, Andrew ‘Inside Lucy Sparrow’s Massive Felt Art Installation, Tampa Fresh Foods’ 18th January 2022, That’s so Tampa
Montgomery, Ben ‘Supermarket Turned Immersive Art Installation Now Open’ 21st January 2022, Axios Tampa Bay
Duffy, Maggie ‘Tampa Fresh Foods, a Grocery Store Made Entirely of Felt, Opens at Water Street’ 19th January 2022, Tampa Bay Times
‘Art Installation: A Grocery Store Made Entirely of Felt’ 30th January 2022, Jefferson News Tribune
The Billion Dollar Robbery
The Bourdon Street Chemist
Sherwin, Adam ‘Lucy Sparrow: My National Felt Service Pharmacy is the Cure for Art Snobs’ 30th April 2021, The I Paper
‘Inside Artist Lucy Sparrow’s Pharmacy Made From Felt: It’s like Blue Peter on Acid’ 6th December 2020, The Times
Brunkhorst, Meike ‘Lucy Sparrow Presents The Bourdon Street Chemist’ 21st April 2021, FAD Magazine
Brown, Mark ‘Joy of Finally Seeing Art up Close in Post-Lockdown London Gallery Hop’ 25th April 2021, The Guardian
Hayhurst, Claire ‘Chemist Shop Stocked With 15,000 Items Made Entirely From Felt’ 15th April 2021, The London Standard
Ebert, Grace ‘Lucy Sparrow Opens The Bourdon Street Chemist, a Fully Stocked Felt Pharmacy’ 9th December 2020, Colossal
Lucy’s Delicatessen on 6th
Hudes, Karen ‘A Corner Deli for Art’ 25th September 2019, Rockefeller Center
‘Every Single Item in Lucy Sparrow’s New York Deli at the Rockefeller Centre is Made of Felt’ 2nd October 2019, Design Boom
Can Yerebakan, Osman ‘Artist Lucy Sparrow is Selling her Whimsical Work at a Midtown Deli She Made Out of Felt’ 10th October 2019, Observer
Cascone, Sarah ‘See the Adorable New Grocery Store in Rockefeller Center, Where Everything is Art’ 1st October 2019, Artnet News
Hoffman, Barbara ‘Artist Lucy Sparrow’s New Felt Deli is Open For Business’ 4th October 2019, New York Post
‘You Can’t Eat Anything at This New York City Deli, But Customers Keep Coming’ 15th October 2019, The Washington Post
Boone, Lisa ‘At this supermarket pop-up, everything is made of felt. Really’ 2nd August 2018, LA Times
CBS, ‘Inside L.A.’s Sparrow Mart where everything is made of felt’ 3rd August 2018, CBS This Morning
Weisel, Carlye ‘This Los Angeles Grocery Store Has 31,000 Items — and You Can’t Eat Any of Them’ 13th August 2018 The Smithsonian
Bogojev, Sasha ‘Lucy Sparrow’s 80’s Style Supermarket Offers 31,000 Handmade Felt Items’ 8th August 2018, Colossal
Miss Rosen, ‘Lucy Sparrow Spent a Year Sewing 31,000 Products for Her All-Felt Grocery Store’ 3rd August 2018, Vice
Cascone, Sarah ‘Furry Sushi? Artist Lucy Sparrow Creates an Adorable LA Supermarket Spilling Over With 31,000 Felt Groceries, Artnet News
Voon, Clare ‘An Artist’s Felt Bodega Is So Successful It Sells Out’ 22nd June 2017, The Smithsonian
Cascone, Sarah ‘Lucy Sparrow on Why Her Cuddly Felt Bodega Brings Relief From Our ‘Crazy Political Times’ June 2017, Art Net
‘Lucy Sparrow’s Felt Bodega Hits The Standard, High Line’ 25th May 2017, The Standard
Ingvartsen, Daniel ‘8 ‘Til Late – A Store Filled With Stuff Made From Felt by Lucy Sparrow’ 22nd June 2017, The Inspiration
Jobson, Christoper ‘Artist Lucy Sparrow Opens an Entire Convenience Store of Handmade Felt Products in Manhattan’ June 21st 2017, Colossal
G, Wil ‘8 ‘Till Late’ 20th June 2017, Office Magazine
Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium
Kale, Sirin ‘The Sex Shop Where Every Toy is Hand-Stitched Out of Felt’ 15th October 2015, Vice Magazine
Kesa, Ingrid ‘Everything in This Sex Shop is Made of Felt’ 14th October 2015 The Creator’s Project
Kahn, Tabish Marshall, Geoff ‘Video: Soho’s Sex Shop Made From Felt’ 13th October 2015, The Londonist
‘Hot fuzz: Soho’s newest sex shop made entirely of felt – in pictures’ 9th October 2015, The Guardian
Li, David K ’50 shades of felt: London sex toy shop stitched entirely from fabric’ 7th October 2015, New York Post
Battersby, Matilda ‘Madame Roxy’s Erotic Emporium, Lucy Sparrow: Meet the ex-stripper challenging porn censorship with a felt sex shop’ 7th October 2015, The Independent
Barcroft, ‘Sex Shop Where Everything Is Made Out Of Felt Opens In London’ 7th October 2015, The Huffington Post
Aron, Isabelle ‘A sex shop made entirely from felt is coming to Soho’ 5th October 2015, Time Out London
Connor, Liz ‘Knitted condoms and felt Playboys: artist Lucy Sparrow opens hand-stitched sex shop in Soho’ 30th September 2015, The Evening Standard
Dezeen, ‘Lucy Sparrow tackles “prudery” with stitched sex shop in London’s Soho’ 29th September 2015, Dezeen Magazine
Carrington, Damian ‘Lucy Sparrow unrolls her artwork showing how Canada’s tar sands are devastating ecosystems at the annual Canada Europe Energy Summit’ The Guardian 17th November 2013
Erwin, Miles ‘Artist has the Tube in stitches with her Tube map tapestry’ Metro, 1st March 2010
Great big softies: meet the woman who makes London’s landmarks out of felt, Time Out London 14th April 2014
Murray, Jessica ‘Snapshots: World in Felt’, 22nd August 2015, The Guardian
Dunbar, Polly ‘I reached 4st 7lb and was told I had two weeks to live.’ A-list artist LUCY SPARROW on her anorexia battle’ 21st June 2025, Daily Mail
Eckblad, Ayanna ‘Art Farm Iowa to host festival over Fourth of July weekend with local, international artists’ 1st July 2025, Albert Lea Tribune
