Evans’ practice is rooted in obsession. Desire is her methodology — restless, uncontainable. She works with industrial remnants — lorry curtains, scaffold cladding, discarded hardware — materials already saturated with histories of labour, consumption, and circulation. These surfaces are not neutral: they are scarred, seductive, and often overpowering in scale and resistance.
She approaches them with compulsion. Cutting, chaining, draping, she forces them into place, only to find herself dominated in return. This negotiation — between Evans and the material, between wanting and possessing — is where the work resides. Sculptures and installations become rehearsals of power, lust, and surrender, staging encounters that are both monumental and intimate.
Parallel to this, she works in moving image, sound, and text, where the same obsessions leak out in other forms. Video montage, field recording, and poetry articulate desire with a manic, frenzied rhythm that mirrors the compulsive nature of the work itself. Pieces such as How to Safely Handle a Curtain-Sided HGV Trailer expose the parasocial, unhinged qualities of these fixations, folding them into narrative fragments that blur confession with performance.
At its core, Evans’ practice is desire made manifest: obsessive, unstable, and unresolved. It asks audiences not for answers but for encounters — to be seduced, and implicated in the intensity of wanting.
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
Key awards/exhibitions include: Hospitalfield 2025 Graduate Residency awardee, Shortlisted for ArtEvol 2025, Nominated for the New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2025, awarded the RSA David Michie Travel Award 2025, a place in my heart (solo exhibition at The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, 2024), The lover (solo exhibition at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, 2025), and I DARE YOU TO LOVE ME (solo exhibition at Strange Field, Glasgow, 2025)
2025
Exhibited in Residue at University of Montana [group show]
Hospitalfield 2025 Graduate Residency awardee
Shortlisted for ArtEvol 2025
Exhibited ‘How To Safely Handle A Curtain-Sided HGV Vehicle’ in Artist Alley at GSASA, Glasgow [group show]
Nominated for the New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2025
Featured in Threshold Zine, included poem ‘The Lover’ alongside still ‘How To Safely Handle A Curtain-Sided HGV Vehicle’ [publication]
Awarded the RSA David Michie Travel Award 2025
Exhibited in GSA MFA Degree show at The Glue Factory, Glasgow [group show]
Exhibited in I DARE YOU TO LOVE ME at Strange Field, Glasgow, Curated by Aliya Prichard-Casey [solo show]
Exhibited in 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 Strange Field, Glasgow, Curated by Aliya Prichard-Casey [group show]
2024
Exhibited in ST.ART Gallery’s (Actually) attainable art fair, London [art fair and group show]
Featured artist for New Blood Art [gallery] {Ended/ October 2025}
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 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]
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
Enrolled in Master of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art
Exhibited in Loughborough University FA 2023 Degree Show [group exhibition]
Nominated for the Freeland’s Painting Prize
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
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2020
Enrolled in BA Fine Art at Loughborough University