Kate Lyddon

12 Nov-20 Dec 2015

Overview

Working intuitively across drawing, painting and sculpture, Kate Lyddon creates visions of bodily absurdity. A cast of characters, sometimes cartoon-like and often grotesque, enact a variety of nonsensical and open-ended poses and narratives. Lyddon’s process combines a careful building up of images or forms, destabilised though the introduction of chaos or chance. In this it reflects the messy nature of ‘real life’, which seeps into the enclosed worlds she creates, without threatening to remove their strangeness. Kate Lyddon (b.1979, London) completed an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2006 and a BA Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury in 2001. Lyddon has presented solo exhibitions at Standpoint Gallery, London (The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2014/15); Galerie d'YS, Brussels; Galerie Charlot, Paris; Fold Gallery, London; and Skellefteå Kunsthalle, Sweden, amongst others. Recent group exhibitions include Suspicion curated by artist Dan Coombs at Jerwood Space, London; and Anti-Social Realism, Charlie Smith, London.