Lily Kemp
Born 1997, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Graduating in 2019 from Wimbledon College of Art, Lily went on to win the Lim Ai Fang Art prize at the Woon Foundation Prize. With an underlying interest in exploring narratives touching on the fluidity of gender and identities; Lily Kemp’s paintings explore escapism, storytelling, the act of dressing up and playing out imagined roles. The sense of scale in Lily’s paintings is often distorted and exaggerated with an interchangeable indistinct relationship between her figures and the space surrounding them, her landscapes seeming to breathe a life of their own. Scenes are often hyper idealised and fantastical; her figures living within these imagined worlds and dream-like realities which are both familiar, yet also border on the performative and theatrical.
Education
- 2019 BA Fine Art Painting, University of the Arts London, London
- 2016 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University of the Arts London, London
