Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess

23 Nov 2024-27 Apr 2025

Overview

Lindsey Mendick (b.1987) subverts the tradition of ceramics with her darkly comic, confessional works. Her newly commissioned sculptures for the Sainsbury Centre will be strikingly personal, tackling social taboos and exposing the artist’s secret fears.

For the Why Do We Take Drugs? season, Mendick will reveal her reliance on antidepressants and alcohol, used to navigate stressful social situations and cope with the threatening unpredictability of daily life. Mendick’s subversive practice candidly addresses the stigma attached to the use of certain medications, such as antidepressants.

Positioning her works amongst paintings by Francis Bacon and Leonora Carrington and sculpture from the Arctic to Africa, Mendick will create a surprising intervention in the Sainsbury Centre’s ‘Living Area’ collection display to disrupt the clean aesthetic like a wild and unwelcome guest at a party.

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