Luci Pina
Based in Leeds, UK
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I run a research driven drawing practice that investigates my Black / African identity and cultural heritage. I stitch together the personal, the sentimental, the musical, the spiritual and the ancestral.
In both personal and commercial contexts, I work with archives (things like photographs, music videos, old passports, notes, newspaper articles, documentary footage and film) to inform my work’s visual language, characters, colour choices and tone; and I then combine these references to illustrate images whose narratives and visual nature become hybrid in process.
Through drawing playfully and instinctively, the imagined emerges and intersects with the observed; and stories almost draw themselves.
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For US based commercial enquiries please contact Kat Irannejad
kat@totallyreps.com
https://www.totallyreps.com/
kat@totallyreps.com
https://www.totallyreps.com/
For anything else email me on
hellolucip@gmail.com
Instagram ⊰@luc.ipina
Selected Clients:
New York Times Magazine, Apple Music, Amazon Music, DICE FM, It's Nice That, High Snobiety, Akila Eyewear, The Observer, Hyde Park Picture House, CRACK Magazine, 10K Global
BA (Hons) Illustration @ Leeds Art University 2020
Press
✩ It's Nice That - Luci Pina on creating posters that capture the "essence" of Black community events
✩ It's Nice That - Luci Pina's energetic illustration work is made with “a loving consideration for the politics of representation”
Residencies
✭ Leeds Art University | 2025
✭ Stolen Books | 2023
✭ East Street Arts | 2021