Lily Hargreaves
Overview
“I want to exploit the omnipotence of the artist, and play with seemingly fixed ideas like time and reality.” - Lily Hargreaves
Through her vivid and meticulously detailed paintings, Lily Hargreaves acts as the historian of the fictional Willowfield Village, documenting its inhabitants and their stories on her canvases. The project exists as a sort of Ergodic literature, with individual compositions overlapping to produce dense tableaus wherein every element is imbued with symbolic importance. Hargreaves’ theatrical approach to both her visual language and the installation of her paintings prompts viewers to play an active part in the narratives she weaves, paving the way for an expansive and experimental method of storytelling.
Her unique and illustrative approach to painting, with its familiar motifs and characters appearing at various narrative tangents, beckons viewers into a bright, bold world that satirises, probes, and tugs at the seams of reality.
Biography
Lily Hargreaves (b.2000) lives and works in London. She completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (2023). In 2022, she was the recipient of The Tooth Travelling Scholarship, and the winner of the BAGT Open Founder's Prize. She was nominated for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2021. She has presented solo exhibitions with Shipton Gallery, London (2023) and De Mimi’s Gallery, London (2022)
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including: Hundred Years Gallery, London (2023); Tart Gallery, London (2023); Resource for London, London (2023); Soho Revue x The Little Scarlet Door, The Little Scarlet Door, London (2022); The Split Gallery, London (2022); The Function Suite, London (2022); Moosey, Norwich (2022); Half Gallery, Miami (2022) and Changing Room Gallery, London (2021).
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