Lilyillo
b. 1981, Australia
Biography
“I am always creating in an attempt to find some beauty, and I create as a means to process thoughts and feelings, bit by bit claiming ground, towards the goal of slowly understanding or embodying knowledge, as sense of self or a closeness to a subject.”
- Lilyillo
Details
Lilyillo, born in 1981 in Sydney, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canberra, Australia. She works across AI and traditional mediums, exploring personal histories, notions of craftsmanship, and the acts of mark making and unmaking. Her work has been exhibited extensively both across Australia and internationally at venues including Artmatr in Brooklyn, NYC; the Constantin Brancusi Centre of the Craiova Art Museum in Romania; The Canvas 3.0 in New York; Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris; and the Contemporary Art Academy of China in Beijing.
She has received the Australia Council for the Arts: 'New Work Emerging Artist Grant' and has undertaken artist residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and at Deveron Arts in Huntly, Scotland. Lilyillo completed a Bachelor of Art History & Theory, a Master of Art Administration & Curatorial Studies, and a Master of Fine Arts, majoring in drawing, at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.