Lizzie Lloyd

Lizzie Lloyd’s practice turns on the translation of encounters at the intersection of art, history and literature, into words. She interrogates how the matter of writing about/with/to art constitutes individuated responses that are moment and site-specific, alive to the landscape of particular images, words, audiences and situations. She likes to see what happens when writing about art bears witness to such coincidences of attention. Or when it is encouraged to enact critical and imaginative leaps of association, spurring subjectivities to make themselves felt through affective description, experimental rendering and serendipitous detour.

Lloyd is a Bristol-based art writer and researcher. She has contributed to publications including Art Monthly, Art Review, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Frieze, artnet and This is Tomorrow. Her writing has been commissioned by numerous galleries including Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Workplace Gallery, Field Art Projects, New Art Projects, Foreground, Hestercombe, Cubitt Residency Programme and Exeter Phoenix among many others. Her work has been exhibited/performed at Plymouth Art Weekender, No Format Gallery, Safehouse 1, and Phoenix Space (Brighton). She has been writer-in-residence at Arnolfini, Art Writers Group: Plymouth, and at the CCA Brighton, in collaboration with Katy Beinart.

Lloyd is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of the West of England, Bristol.