Lucy Wrapson graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in History of Art in 2000 before spending a year on scholarship at Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia, Italy. She then attended the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving an MA in Early Sienese Painting in 2002 and a Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings in 2005. Since 2005, she has been based at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, firstly as a Conservation Intern and since 2007 as a Research Associate and Painting Conservator, becoming an ICON Accredited Conservator in 2012 and Assistant to the Director in 2016. Lucy gained her PhD in History of Art in 2014, from the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled 'Patterns of production: a technical art historical study of East Anglia’s late medieval screens'.