Lydia Makin
About
Lydia Makin (b. 1997) received her BA in Fine Art at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2020 and is currently based in London having recently completed her MA at The Royal College of Art. She has received multiple awards including the UCL East Provost Art Prize (2020), The Dean’s List (2020), The Slade Prize (2020), The Hix Award Shortlist (2018), The Faculty Scholarship of Excellence Award (2017), The Richard Ford Award (2017) and The Painters Stainers’ Company Scholarship (2017).
Recent selected exhibitions include: What Now, (PM/AM, London, 2024), Catharsis in the Flame, (Studio West, London, 2023), Introducing, (Gallery Rosenfeld, London, 2022), The Reality in Whytch you Create, (Studio West, London, 2022), Circa, (Piccadilly Lights, London, 2020) and The Hix Award, (Hix Art Gallery, London, 2018).
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“I experience painting as the literal physical extension of my body where I undergo continual birth and rebirth into the world. In this way, my practice is a spiritual one, it is an introspective journey of the many selves. The paintbrush is subsumed into my being, and the canvas upon which I work becomes another form of self.”
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