Lilian Evans’ transdisciplinary practice is characterised by her sensual exploration into the expanded field of painting, confronting the medium which she finds herself monotonously committed to. Through the physical manipulation of waste materials, she constructs large-scale draped formations which interrogate and penetrate the medium.
Revolving around her methodology of desire, Evans’ practice sits in the space between wanting and possessing as she seeks to express her obsessive desire for the side of a lorry.
Her works, constructed with intuition, compulsion, and lust, are in essence, desire made manifest.
Lilian Evans (b.2002), is a UK-born artist currently based in Glasgow, with a Master of Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art after graduating from Loughborough University in 2023 with a First Class Honours in Fine Art.
Key exhibitions include: a place in my heart (solo exhibition at The Pipe Factory, 2024), The lover (solo exhibition at Beacon Arts Centre, 2025), and the upcoming exhibition with curator Aliya Prichard-Casey, I DARE YOU TO LOVE ME.
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I DARE YOU TO LOVE ME - 10th - 13th April 2025
2025
The Lover at Beacon Arts Centre, part of the 2025 Exhibitions programme, Curated by Fraser Taylor (Haxton Studio) [solo show]
Exhibited in MIDNIGHT by SWATCHED at French Street (Strange Field), Glasgow [group show and co-curation with Aliya Prichard-Casey]
2024
Exhibited in ST.ART Gallery’s (Actually) attainable art fair [art fair and group show]
Featured artist for New Blood Art [gallery]
Co-Curator of SWATCHED [exhibition series]
Chair of re:PRESENT [society]
Master of Fine Art year two Course Representative
Collaborated with Glasgow based Curator Aliya Prichard-Casey on Evans’ first solo show, a place in my heart at The Pipe Factory in Glasgow [collaborative solo exhibition and manuscript]
Exhibited in STIRLING by SWATCHED at The Haberdashery [group exhibition]
Featured in a collaborative sound piece titled Radio International, shown in Glasgow International 2024 [sound piece feature at arts festival]
Exhibited in curtains at the Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow [group exhibition and publication]
Exhibited in the MFA interim show at the Glue Factory, Glasgow [group exhibition]
Joined re:PRESENT [society]
Presented and exhibited a love letter to a curtainsider at a re:PRESENT event at The Glasgow School of Art [exhibition and artist talk]
Exhibited in Do you know who I am?! [group exhibition]
2023
Master of Fine Art year one Course Representative
Enrolled in Master of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art
Graduated from Loughborough University (first class honours)
Exhibited in Loughborough University FA 2023 Degree Show [group exhibition]
Organiser and advertisement photographer for the Loughborough University Fine Art Degree Show [commercial photography and event organising]
Nominated for the Freeland’s Painting Prize [painting prize nomination]
Co curated and exhibited in the Welcome Matt exhibition at Loughborough University [curation and group exhibition]
2022
Curated and exhibited in the Failures exhibition at Loughborough University [curation and group exhibition]
Artist in residence at Loughborough Grammar School [residency]
2021
2020
Enrolled in BA Fine Art at Loughborough University
