ARTIST STATEMENT
“"We learn who we are by blending into others. It requires bouncing between people who view the world differently."
About the artist
Lily Alice Baker (b.1998, Newcastle, UK) completed her Foundation Diploma in Fine Art at Sussex Coast College in Hastings and her B.A. in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University in London.
Working in an intuitive, gestural language that moves between figuration and abstraction, Baker explores the body as a site of vulnerability, desire, memory, and emotional excess. Drawing on the physicality of Abstract Expressionism, Baker uses oil paint to create figures that emerge, dissolve, and collide within luminous, dreamlike environments. Earlier works examined the charged social rituals of pubs and clubs—spaces in which gender, masculinity, belonging, and intimacy are continually performed—while more recent paintings turn inward, giving form to states of grief, longing, tenderness, and dislocation.
“The overarching theme of my work is humanness, interaction, memory, nostalgia, relationships, and sex.”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Olympia, New York; NARANJO 141, Mexico City; The Bottle Factory, London; Lighthouse Gallery, Eastbourne; Black Swan Studios, London; and Hastings Arts Forum, Hastings.
Available artworks
Exhibitions
"Only recently have I realized it has always been a search for my own identity, a sort of longing to find somewhere to fit in and to truly understand why I feel what I feel."
