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Contact:  info@lili-mj.com

Artist Statement

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I am a London based artist who works between jewellery and performance. I am interested in power that exists within objectification, in particular the dominance that can result from excessive submissiveness. I enjoy opposites, contradictions and playful experiments on more serious underlying concepts and topics. 

My practice is also driven by the value of labour, how it is measured and changeable, always in flux. I find the way the meaning or value of an object can disappear or alter depending on who is viewing it compelling, and use my practice to experiment with this. 

In my work I aim to poke at and test the meaning of being ‘correct’ in our behaviour and interactions. I tend to use humour and subversion to work through my ideas, and am drawn to where humour can become awkward and tension can be felt. 

Education

 

2021 - 2023   Royal College of Art, MA Jewellery and Metal

2012 - 2015   Central Saint Martins, BA Hons Jewellery Design

2011 - 2012   Central Saint Martins, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Exhibitions and Performances

2024 

           Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023, Camden Arts Centre, London (upcoming) 

2023

           Lawless Imagination, RuptureXIBIT, London (upcoming) 

           FIX23, Catalyst Arts, Belfast

           Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (currently on)

           Seams, Season Gallery, London

           RCA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London

           JAMCabaret, Munich Jewellery Week Hub, Munich 

2022                              

           After acting like a doormat for many years, I will become a doormat, Hill Station Community Cafe, London 

           Precious Materials, Goldsmiths Fair, Goldsmiths Hall, London

           Delivision: Three Video Projects by Lili Murphy-Johnson, Theatre Deli, Broadgate Circle, London

           CAUTION: WORK IN PROGRESS, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London

           W.I.P, Royal College of Art, Online

2018   The Jewellery Pop-Up, Shoreditch, London

2017   Decorating Dissidence, Mile End Art Pavilion, London

2016   Future Late, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London

2015   Central Saint Martins Degree Show, London

2014   Salvage, Central Saint Martins, London

2013   Entrance to Pearls exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2012   Central Saint Martins Foundation Degree Show, London

Awards and Achievements

2023   Long-listed for Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year

2023   Graham Hughes Award

2023   New Contemporaries 2023

2021   The Griffin Scholarship, to study at the RCA

 

Public Talks

2023   Central Saint Martins, BA Jewellery Design, Autumn Lecture Series 

2023   Glasgow School of Art, BA Jewellery and Silversmithing

 

Teaching Experience

2023                Glasgow School of Art, BA Jewellery and Silversmithing, Week-long teaching placement

2019 - 2022     Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, Foundation Performance Platform, Commissioned Works Collaborator 

Professional Experience

2021, 2023    Jeweller, Castro Smith, London

2021 - 2023   Self Employed Freelance Jeweller

2020 - 2021   Workshop Manager, The Great Frog, London

2018 - 2020   Workshop Supervisor, The Great Frog, London

2016 - 2020   Jeweller, The Great Frog, London

2015 - 2016   Workshop Intern, Shaun Leane, London

2015              Studio Intern, Lily Kamper, London

Publications

2017   Narrative Jewellery: Tales from the Toolbox by Mark Fenn, p.192

Press

2023   Aesthetic Anthologies Artist Feature

2020   Tampax

2019   She. Magazine, p.52

2018   She. Magazine, p.16-17

2018   BenchPeg

2018   Playboy

2017   Harpers Bazaar

2017   Separee Magazine, cover and p.80-85

2016   Cosmopolitan

2016   Glamour, p.62-66

2016   Huffington Post

2016   Teen Vogue

2016   The Telegraph

2016   The Daily Mail

2015   Paper Magazine

2015   Art Sheep

2015   Buzzfeed

2015   Vice

2013   Professional Jeweller

2013   The Guardian Weekend Magazine, p.63

2013   The Financial Times, How To Spend It

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