Lydia Lott

Lydia Lott is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, textiles, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. Their practice explores the relationship between interior life and the spaces we inhabit, with a particular interest in the porous boundary between public and private experience. Lott's work is interested in the ways that spaces and objects accumulate traces of the people who move through them, and in how psychological experience can become material.

At the centre of their practice is an interest in the ordinary spaces in which we are most unguarded: bedrooms, beds, domestic interiors and the objects that surround us. Drawing on phenomenological ideas of dwelling, their work conceptualises the home not simply as a physical structure, but as a space shaped by the body, memory, habit and imagination. These spaces can hold multiple temporalities at once. A room can contain what is happening now alongside everything that has happened there before; memory can persist within the present.

The bed has become an important site within this investigation. It is one of the few spaces in which the body is permitted to completely surrender itself—to rest, sleep, recover, dream and exist without the demands of public presentation. Ima...

The King's Foundation
Kingston School of Art (Foundation Diplom

“What Our Bodies Leave Behind” | Chelsea College of Art | Group Show | July 2026
Cookhouse Gallery

Upcoming | ‘Euphoria’ | Art Fait | Group Show | August 2026
Indra Gallery

‘Past is Prologue’ | Galleria Objets | Group Show | April 2026
Galleria Objets

What was, What is, What Could be’ | Queer Youth Art Collective | Group Show | April 2026
Camberwell Space


“In Other Words’ | Qloud Collective | Group Show | March 2026
Corner Gallery

“An Exhalation of a Drawn out moment | Humm Collective | Group Show | Feb 2026
And not Or Gallery

‘The Pulse that Runs up Through our Feet’ | Humm Collective | Group Show | October 2025
Not For Sale Gallery

‘Mapping Elsewhere’ | SOS-25 | Group Show | September 2025
The ANNEX at Koppel


King’s Foundation Final Show | Group Show | June 2025
The Garrison Chapel

‘Out of Order | The ‘Loovre’ | Group Show | March 2024
The PRSE

Kingston Foundation Final Show | June 2021
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