Lydia Brockless

b. 1991, High Wycombe, UK (she/her)

MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, 2021

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds College of Art, 2014

Lives & works in Essex, Kent & London, UK

Exhibitions include:

PROXY (2021), Cromwell Place, London, UK; Off Trail (2021), AIR Gallery, Altrincham, UK; Estuary Festival (2021), Thames Estuary, UK; Dirty Hands and Revelations – The Great Oxygenation Event (2020), Standpoint Gallery, London, UK; These Are The Days My Friends (2019), Kupfer Projects, London, UK; Lunar Gardening (2019), Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK; The Kiss or Poison Boyfriend or Jesus’ Blood (2016-17), Intercession Gallery, Northampton/Project 78 Gallery, St. Leonard’s-On-Sea/Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK; In This Soup We Swim (2016), Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK; Uncommon Chemistry (2016), Observer Bld., Hastings, UK; Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2015), Nottingham/London, UK.

Awards & Residencies include:

This Must Be The Place micro-commission (2021), Cement Fields & Ebbsfleet Development Corporation; South Downs Wild Camp / Merz Research Trip (2021) with Millie Laing-Tate; MA Dissertation Prize (2020), Henry Moore Institute; Graduate Residency (2014), The Art House Wakefield.

Public Engagement, Participatory and Education Collaborators include:

Turner Contemporary, The Huguenot Museum, Cement Fields, Esther Collins, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, UAL Future Creatives, BackWoods, Merziety, Millie Laing-Tate, MERZ Gallery

Writing about writing, talking about talking, making rocks about rocks, printing images about images- it’s all I ever do because everyone loves a good story, right? 

It didn’t come out how I expected, but it’s what I meant.

image: (Reimagined) A Rock for an 'N' (2021)