b. 1991, High Wycombe – she/her
Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture 2019-2021
Leeds College of Art 2011-2014
Bucks New University 2010-2011
Lives and works in Northumberland
2023
Ingram Prize 2023 Shortlisted Artists – Cromwell Place, London SW7
2022
We Are Made of Star Stuff – Hoxton 253 Project Space, London N1
2021
NATURISMS – 399 Hornsey Road, London N19
Tree Of Life – Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonard’s-On-Sea
Off Trail – AIR Gallery, Altrincham
PROXY / RCA2021 (RCA MA Sculpture Degree Show) – Online & Cromwell Place, London SW7
Together It Seams– Standpoint Gallery, London N1
cutting at lemons for freckles – Skippings Gallery, Great Yarmouth
2020
Dirty Hands and Revelations – The Great Oxygenation Event – Standpoint Gallery, London N1
RCA Sculpture Work In Progress Show – Sculpture Studios, Royal College of Art, Kensington SW7
2019
Below the Washing Line – Sculpture Studios, Royal College of Art, Kensington SW7
These Are The Days My Friends – Kupfer Projects, London E9
Lunar Gardening – Kingsgate Project Space, London NW6
2018
The A5 Show – Notting Hill Genesis Annual Fundraiser – The Koppel Project Hive – London EC1A
Fair Play – part of Women In Art Fair – Gallery Elena Shchukina, London W1
2017
The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend or Jesus’ Blood – Intercession Gallery, Northampton; Project 78 Gallery, St. Leonard’s-On-Sea; Kingsgate Project Space, London NW6
OVADA Seven Counties Open – OVADA Warehouse, Oxford
Thirty – 12øCollective.com
Draw The Line – Surface Gallery, Nottingham
LAME Journal Volume Two Launch – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds
2016
Copeland Collective 1 – part of Art Licks Weekend, Copeland Park, London SE15
HOTDESK – 1a Nevern Place, London SW5 (co-curator)
Don’t Touch – 352 King’s Road, London SW3
Whenever I Feel Blue, I Start Breathing Again – Earl’s Court Project Rooms, London SW6
In This Soup We Swim – Kingsgate Project Space, London NW6
Soft Rocks (duo show with Sophie Giller)– Lady Beck Project Space, Leeds (co-curator)
The Contemporary Open – Sun Pier House CIC, Chatham
Uncommon Chemistry – with Lido Projects, Observer Bld., Hastings
Ones We Watched 2016 – Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
2015
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 – New Midland Group venues, Nottingham and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London SW1Y
Cascading Relevant Information – CBS Gallery at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
The Artificial Exhibition – Surface Zine Launch – Safehouse 1, London SE15
Place and Proximity – Austin Forum, London W6
Placing– October 2015 – Brodsgaard Art Projects, London SW5
Sense of Feel (duo show with Kate J Parrott) – Brodsgaard Art Projects, London SW5
Small Expressions – Textile Center, Minneapolis MN, USA
Refuse, Reuse – 46 Thurloe Street, London SW7
2014
SUM at Free Range – Old Truman Brewery, London E1
SUM – LCA Fine Art Degree Show – Leeds College of Art, Leeds
Current posts
Short Course Tutor – UAL Short Courses – Online/Central Saint Martins – November 2019-present
Previous
Freelance
‘Cut, Pile, Shift, Disrupt – Deep Time Thinking Through Collage’ Workshop – We Are Made Of Star Stuff – Hoxton 253 Project Space – March 2022
‘Text Tablets’ Casting Workshop – Off Trail Exhibition – AIR Gallery, Altrincham – July 2021
‘Geology of an Image’ Schools Workshop – This Must Be The Place (Cement Fields) for Estuary Festival (pre-recorded) – June 2021
‘Text-and-Object’ Workshops – Gravesham Estuary Fringe (online) – June 2021
‘Walking/Talking/Making’ Workshop – Public Art Consultation – Groundworks South & Ebbsfleet Development Corporation – Ebbsfleet Garden City – October 2019
Community Workshops – Ebbsfleet Development Corporation – Ebbsfleet Garden City – August-September 2019
‘Collage & Weave’ Workshop – Faversham Library – September 2019
Visiting Artist/‘Fabric Shingles’ Workshops – Raising the Sittingbourne Barn – Whitstable Biennale – August 2019
Visiting Artist/‘Collage & Weave’ Workshop – Bizarre & Curious Silks – Huguenot Museum, Rochester – July/August 2019
Visiting Artist/Chalk & Cheese Workshops – Chalk & Cheese (with artist Esther Collins & Ebbsfleet Development Corporation) – Ebbsfleet Garden City – December 2018
‘Weaving a Story’ Workshop – The Big Draw – Huguenot Museum, Rochester – October 2018
Alumni Speaker – The Art House Work-Life Conference – December 2017
‘Arp-y Christmas’ Workshops – Christmas Celebration Weekend – Turner Contemporary, Margate – December 2017
Volunteer (unpaid)
Member Board of Trustees – Cement Fields – March 2023-present
Co-leader (with Millie Laing-Tate) – RCA Merz Society (Merziety) – 2020-2021
Visiting Lecturer – UCA Farnham BA Fine Art – February 2020
Panellist – Emerging Artists in Conversation as part of HF ArtsFest – June 2015
Visiting Lecturer – Leeds College of Art Fine Art Graduate Forum – November 2015 & November 2014
Other past roles
Administrator & Studio Programme Manager – Kingsgate Workshops, London – July 2021-September 2022
Co-Founder & Creative Lead – BackWoods – Stokenchurch, Bucks – August 2019-September 2022
Art & Design Technology Technician/Instructor/After-school Club Leader – Rainham School for Girls, Medway, Kent – February 2017 – September 2019
Shortlisted – Ingram Prize 2023 – November 2023
This Must Be The Place Micro-Commission – Cement Fields/Estuary 2021, Ebbsfleet Garden City – 2021
Winner – Henry Moore Institute MA Dissertation Prize 2020
Arts Award Adviser Bronze, Silver & Gold – Trinity College London – 2018
Gallery Education Facilitator Traineeship – completed October 2017 – Turner Contemporary, Margate
Shortlisted – The Annex Collection Acquisition Award – December 2016 – TACUK.org
Artist in Residence – The Art House Graduate Residency – December 2014 – The Art House, Wakefield
Ingram Prize Catalogue 2023
Tree Of Life Catalogue 2021
The Pluralist (RCA Student Newspaper) – The Fake/Real Issue Summer 2020
The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend or Jesus’ Blood – some notes on touch 2018
LAME Journal Volume II Spring 2017
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 Catalogue
Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot Volume XLIV No. 4 Issue 184 Fall 2015
Contact: lydia.brockless@hotmail.co.uk
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