Built from found objects, personal archives and the crude handmade processes, her practice acts as an homage to childhood nostalgia growing up in South Shields, a seaside town at the Mouth of the River Tyne, combining hazy memories, dialect and a dreams to create absurd sculptures which juxtapose the fictional with the non-fictional, whilst acknowledging the inner-conflict of homesickness for a place which is slowly slipping away to far-right rhetoric and isolation.
Lily Robyn Davies' (b. 2005, South Shields) practice centres on the contextual understanding around the surrealist landscape of a deindustrialised Britain intersected with a particular 'sanddancer' (South Shields native) sense of humour, whilst recognising the role that class consciousness, industrial heritage and folklore all play within the social infrastructure of our own private mythology, especially in the North East.
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Skills & Experience
- Documentation: photography
- Technical: exhibition build
- Academic Research
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