LIBBY LLOYD
LIBBY LLOYD
ABOUT
Libby Lloyd's work explores the spiritual and temporal experience of a space. Her interest into 'human architecture' has led to her recent interest in outer space and the history of space exploration.
Her 2019 residency in Yinchuan, China inspired her proposal to explore that nations involvement in the exploration of outer-space, particularly their recent mission to the 'Dark Side of The Moon' and sending the 'TW - 1' rocket to Mars in 2020.
The artwork explores the idea of building human spaces for occupation. Image and colour are constructed using flattened picture planes, a formalist theory in Western Fine Art Painting and a reflection of the flat perspective depicted in Chinese Art History. It is an idealist and surrealist approach, enabling the viewer to depict more than can be seen by the naked eye. The composition adopts a sequence of flat 2D perspective planes. The images draw on mythology, science fiction and the human condition, often rendered with neon colour and digital filters. The artwork illustrates the spiritual and the human desire to explore the Universe and the sentiments that seem to underpin every human story. She welcomes commissions, as some of her conceptual work is supersize and too large for the home environment.
Lloyd studied Fine Art Printmaking at Winchester School of Art, graduating in 1994. She began her professional career in Printmaking at Bath Spa University (BSU) in 1995. In 2000, she started lecturing for BSU and embarked on a bursary-awarded PhD at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. Her Doctorate research enabled her to understand how an enthusiasm for colour, as a formal medium could generate conditions for making colour planes visible.
In 2004 she was a consultant with the internationally acclaimed architects Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios where she directed innovative colour design schemes for new builds. Libby is currently a research associate with the University of Aberystwyth, Wales. She lives and works in Bristol and is an active artist member of Spike Print Studios.
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