Artist: Lily Golightly Title: Diary Soup 2 Year: 2024 Materials: Acrylic paint, nail polish, diary entries, confetti, clay, beads, Dimensions: 500mm high x 400mm wide
These painting are called diary soup because they are like diaries and made up of all recycled bits and bobs, like a soup.
Lily works across painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles and video. Her work is interested in concepts of collective imagining and fantasy. She is also interested in ideas of make-believe, playfulness and humour. Her work often uses images from nature in conjunction with those found in fantasy, myth and fairytale to create utopian images. Her work aims to have a softness and lightness to it, both materially or conceptually to provide comfort and calm to viewers.
Lily is based on Gadigal land, Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design in 2018 and will be completing her Honors in 2022. She has exhibited in both Australia and abroad and worked on projects for Carriageworks, Sydney Opera House & The National. She is also the founder of Flower Books.
