Lydia Pettit – Artist Talk
Lydia Pettit (b. 1991) Is an artist from Baltimore, USA. She pursued her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and went on to move to London, UK in 2018 to study at the Royal College of Art for a Masters in Painting. Pettit’s works explore the experience of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the politics of the body, using self portraiture as a vehicle to process and communicate. The Artist uses direct references from horror as avatars for different parts of the psyche – Anger as a crazed slasher, Fear as the helpless victim, and Desire as a rabid wild woman. Putting on these personas in paint, sculpture, and textile speaks to the dark comedy of living with mental illness, the ups and the downs, and the complications of recovery. Since graduating in 2020, Pettit has had solo exhibitions at White Cube, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, and Galerie Judin, and group exhibitions at Timothy Taylor Gallery, Sim Smith, Kutlesa Gallery, and SPURS Gallery. She was part of New Contemporaries 2021 and is a two time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant.
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