Lily’s works lie in a dream world made up of sources from her memories, her everyday experiences and her emotions. Desire is a key theme in her work and she uses painting, drawing and printmaking to explore the surreal situations we might find ourselves in when seeking out these desires. These situations are tender, brutal, humorous and melancholic.

The objects in her work are charged with an active symbolist quality that come from the memories they hold and their own potential realities and agency (with a nod to Object Orientated Ontology). The reoccurring characters – created through the artist’s urge to jump inside objects that trigger childhood memories – become familiar friends in a world made up for us to escape into.

After graduating from Central Saint Martin’s with a 1st class BA Hons and The Royal Drawing School’s Drawing Year, Lily studied an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School, graduating in 2022.