LYDIA
HAMBLET
The works included in FELT 04 are a series of mono-screenprints on paper, a process which Lydia has continued developing since her MA in Print at the Royal College of Art.
Lydia Hamblet’s practice spans painting, print, drawing and public installation. Reflecting on shared encounters, spaces and environments, her work invites the viewer to consider contemporary life, not in its traditional pop language but rather through the very energies and situations that bring it into being.
“Applying the ink directly to the open mesh of a screen results in unique works which hybrid painting and printmaking. This intuitive method of working lends itself to my process-orientated practice and allows for bold, expressive works with an anarchic spirit.”
Marcel Proust writes ‘We relive our past years not in their continuous sequence, day by day, but in a memory focused upon the coolness or the sunshine of some morning or afternoon.’ Ongoing research within the work draws upon personal narratives around the weather. Colour and form takes precedence, focused on achieving a level of transcendence.
Lydia Hamblet graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2020, and previously from Camberwell College of Art. She recently presented a solo exhibition of work including a major new commission at AMP Gallery, London. Previous exhibitions include group shows with SZN Gallery, Aora Space, The Auction Collective, Saatchi Gallery and Peer Gallery. She is also the recipient of the 2020 Clifford Chance Printmaker’s Purchase Prize and the Kingsgate Project Space 16:9 Billboard Commission.
