Lily Lavorato






LILY LAVORATO






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[Currently living and working in Glasgow]

I am a visual artist whose work is an emotional and material exploration into the relationship between our inner and outer ecologies. Rooted in sculpting, drawing and writing, I use ritualistic processes of slowly eroding and transforming to centre themes of life and mortality, faith and relationships. Moving beyond our storied framework of healing, my work slips between binaries, manifesting as carved ceramics, ink swept prints, melted text and eroded song. These tender acts of making often expand as offerings to others in the form of community projects.

My practice is also informed by my Calabrian heritage and previous works have explored my family's history in this rural area steeped in rich, slow time and folklore. Times of historical scarcity in this region caused a migratory pattern of movement in my family and my own fragile sense of belonging there.

Currently, I am working on a project which explores the damming of rivers and subsequent accumulation of silt in relation to traumatic memories and how they accumulate in our bodies. I am working with sculpture, voicing and writing to explore this.

I am also an experienced facilitator with a grounding in outdoors education and an access support worker. I often work collaboratively with other artists and I am a proud ‘mom’ and co-founder of Party Mom Society based in Leeds and member of Earland Choir based in Glasgow.

[Recently been thinking about]

silt, erosion, textures of memory, trauma as ruins in the body, ancestors/lineage, where water meets rock, non-linear time, deep time, embodied knowledge, intuition, play, access to landscape, oral traditions, what is buried, thin places, healing as not woundless