Biography
(b.2001) Lily Petch is a visual, multidisciplinary artist, her practice ruminates upon the capacity writing has to outlive the human form. She encourages the potential, symbolism and fragility of chosen materials and their capacity to collapse or endure erasure. Contextually, she is informed by the history of language systems, particularly the shift from proto-sumerian pictograph to codified signs of logo syllabic cuneiform. This research takes material form in Petch’s practice through book-centric installations, wax cylinder sound recording, photography, bookbinding, and poetry.
Education
2021 - 2024 BA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2020 - 2021 Art Foundation, Brighton Metropolitan College.
Exhibitions
2024
‘Permanent Notes’ with Riley Richards, Warwick Works, E5 8QJ, London.
The Slade School of Fine Art Undergraduate Degree Show.
'Threading The Eye, Era Journal' Crypt Gallery, 165 Euston Road, London.
'RIFT' Greatorex Street, E1 5NF, London.
2023
‘A Mere Interlude’ hARTSlane, 17 Harts Lane, London .
‘Interim’ Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London.
2022
‘SPIIIIINELESS’ Spineless Wonders, UCL Art Museum, London.
'CPR short film screening' Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London.
‘FISHTANK’ Penarth Center, SE15 1TR, London.
2021
'Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021' Woolwich Works, SE18 6HD, London.
‘Thing 18/From The Drained Pool’ Form IV.
2020
‘New Contemporaries Annual Exhibition 2020’ Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
‘Art Prize 2020’ 35 North Gallery Brighton.
‘Everyday Dora Maar’ TATE Lates, Tate Modern, London.
Curation
2024
'aíma' Safehouse 1, SE15 3SN, London.
'RIFT' Greatorex Street, E1 5NF, London.
Readings / Press
2024
'Snow 14 lit rev', Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square WC1.
'Milkteeth' Interview by Madeleine Clark.
'From Stone To Clay To Butter' Dunlin Press, Free Verse: Poetry Book & Magazine Fair.
'Palm Like Paper', The Slade School of Fine Art.
'LARP' edition vol 17, Era Journal.
2021 - 2023
May 2023, 'The Horizon Magazine Issue 6', p56.
October 2023, 'The written unit, signs, grave markers and the left behind object', The Slade School of Fine Art.
August 2022 ‘Acierage’ publication reading, Avalon Cafe, SE14 5RZ.
March 2021 Poetry Shed Poetry & Colour symposium webinar.
Prizes
2024
Michael Farrell Award for Photography.
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