Lucy Nurnberg is an artist, spatial designer, event promoter and the creator of Uhaul Dyke Rescue — a project dedicated to bringing sexy, silly dyke spaces to the masses. Uhaul Dyke Rescue is responsible for the Mobile Dyke Bar, a pop-up festival venue in a Luton van, and the Uhaul Dyke Raves, a cult dyke club night in east London. The project has appeared at the V&A Museum, Mighty Hoopla and Field Maneuvers festivals, Charleston House, The Yard Theatre and RuPaul’s DragCon.
See @uhaul.dyke.rescue for updates and events
As well as Uhaul Dyke Rescue, Lucy Nurnberg works as a designer and builder across production, exhibition and set design, and is the frontman of dyke punk band Trouble Wanted.
Mobile Dyke Bar Festival & Appearances
2025 — Mobile Dyke Bar x Victoria Scone, RuPaul’s DragCon, 11 January
2024 — V&A Late, Victoria & Albert Museum, October 25
2024 — Queer Bloomsbury at Charleston House, September 14
2024 — Field Maneuvers festival, 16-18 August
2024 — Top of the Slops Finale, The Clapham Grand, 1 August
2024 — Mobile Dyke Bar Pop-Up at The Yard Theatre, 25 July & 10 August
2024 — Mighty Hoopla, June 1-2
Exhibitions
2024 — Goldsmiths CCA, London: set design for ‘Between the Stacks’ at ‘bodying libraries’
2023 — South London Gallery, London: video work included in the SCHOOL SOS group exhibition
2023 — Truman Brewery, London Royal College of Art Graduate Show, Truman Brewery, London
2022 — Toppins Barbershop, Sunbury Studios, London: concept and exhibition design for ‘Close Shave’
Production Design
2024 — Last Exit on Bethnal, a music film by Hannah Holland directed by Lydia Garnett
2024 — Rubinstein’s, directed by Tommy Ross-Williams
Public speaking, research and curation
2024 — Royal College of Art: co-curator of ‘Queer x Time’, a three-part public event series celebrating queerness and its relationship to the built environment across time
2024 — The National Archives: guest speaker presenting ‘U-Haul Dyke Rescue Service’
2023 — London Metropolitan Archives, LGBTQ+ Conference: guest speaker and researcher presenting ‘U-Haul Dyke Rescue Service’
2023 — Household
2023 — Studio PDP
Press
2025 — Royal College of Art — ‘RCA alumna’s futuristic lesbian rescue service making space to party’
2024 — Evening Standard Magazine — ‘Mobile Dyke Bar: Can you find London’s hottest new lesbian hangout?’
2023 — HÄN Archive — ‘Close Shave by Lydia Garnett, Lucy Nurnberg and Zach Toppin’
2022 — Dazed — ‘A new exhibition, Close Shave, celebrates and pays tribute to butch dyke identity and style through the lens of haircuts’
2022 — British Journal of Photography — ‘Lydia Garnett pays homage to the relationship between hair and Butch identity’
2022 — It’s Nice That —‘Close Shave chronicles Butch style in all its iconic, tender glory’
2020 — Creative Boom — ‘This lesbian cowgirl-meets-trucker music video is exactly what you need right now’
Education
MA Interior Design, Royal College of Art
BA Illustration, University of Brighton
See @uhaul.dyke.rescue for updates and events
As well as Uhaul Dyke Rescue, Lucy Nurnberg works as a designer and builder across production, exhibition and set design, and is the frontman of dyke punk band Trouble Wanted.
Recent work / exhibitions / events
Mobile Dyke Bar Festival & Appearances
2025 — Mobile Dyke Bar x Victoria Scone, RuPaul’s DragCon, 11 January
2024 — V&A Late, Victoria & Albert Museum, October 25
2024 — Queer Bloomsbury at Charleston House, September 14
2024 — Field Maneuvers festival, 16-18 August
2024 — Top of the Slops Finale, The Clapham Grand, 1 August
2024 — Mobile Dyke Bar Pop-Up at The Yard Theatre, 25 July & 10 August
2024 — Mighty Hoopla, June 1-2
Exhibitions
2024 — Goldsmiths CCA, London: set design for ‘Between the Stacks’ at ‘bodying libraries’
2023 — South London Gallery, London: video work included in the SCHOOL SOS group exhibition
2023 — Truman Brewery, London Royal College of Art Graduate Show, Truman Brewery, London
2022 — Toppins Barbershop, Sunbury Studios, London: concept and exhibition design for ‘Close Shave’
Production Design
2024 — Last Exit on Bethnal, a music film by Hannah Holland directed by Lydia Garnett
2024 — Rubinstein’s, directed by Tommy Ross-Williams
Public speaking, research and curation
2024 — Royal College of Art: co-curator of ‘Queer x Time’, a three-part public event series celebrating queerness and its relationship to the built environment across time
2024 — The National Archives: guest speaker presenting ‘U-Haul Dyke Rescue Service’
2023 — London Metropolitan Archives, LGBTQ+ Conference: guest speaker and researcher presenting ‘U-Haul Dyke Rescue Service’
2023 — Household
2023 — Studio PDP
Press
2025 — Royal College of Art — ‘RCA alumna’s futuristic lesbian rescue service making space to party’
2024 — Evening Standard Magazine — ‘Mobile Dyke Bar: Can you find London’s hottest new lesbian hangout?’
2023 — HÄN Archive — ‘Close Shave by Lydia Garnett, Lucy Nurnberg and Zach Toppin’
2022 — Dazed — ‘A new exhibition, Close Shave, celebrates and pays tribute to butch dyke identity and style through the lens of haircuts’
2022 — British Journal of Photography — ‘Lydia Garnett pays homage to the relationship between hair and Butch identity’
2022 — It’s Nice That —‘Close Shave chronicles Butch style in all its iconic, tender glory’
2020 — Creative Boom — ‘This lesbian cowgirl-meets-trucker music video is exactly what you need right now’
Education
MA Interior Design, Royal College of Art
BA Illustration, University of Brighton
