MOTORMOUTH COMICS

Lily Langley is an emerging contemporary artist who utilises visual storytelling and character creation to envisage alternate realities, often appropriating the masculine laconic figure of the Larrikin to tell queer narratives of generational trauma, substance abuse, mateship and camaraderie.

Growing up on the outermost edge of suburban Sydney, she has always had a fascination with the spinning of a good yarn; who gets to tell the story, where does it fragment, where does reality and fiction blur? Through a multidisciplinary practice of printmaking, ink drawing and sculpting, her works are threads of narrative that emerge from memories, urban legends, daydreams and nightmares alike.

In 2021, Lily Langley was selected for the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize and graduated with Honours from her Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design.

Exhibitions

Solo Shows:

‘THE CROCODILE’ at Sugarglider Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
9 July – 2 August, 2025

‘Miscreants’, Prop Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
31 January – 9 February, 2025

‘Hoons & Goons’ at Good Grief Studios, Hobart TAS.
January 20 – February 12, 2023 

‘ Death in Suburbia’ at Goodspace Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
January 25 — 27, 2021

Group Shows:

Art.By.CGK Sale Exhibition Group Show, Goodspace Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
May 22, 2024

‘UNHENGED!’, Goodspace Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
January 31, 2024

‘How Do Ants?’, Goodspace Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
November 29, 2023

‘TEXTA’, DRAW Space, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
5 October – 5 November, 2023

‘Phantasmagoria’, Join the Dots gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW.
July 19 – 29, 2023

‘Bombo Goes to Buzzcock’ at Goodspace Gallery, Gadigal / Sydney NSW. November 30, 2022

A&D Annual 2021 Graduate show, at UNSW Galleries, Gadigal / Sydney NSW. December 7 — 18, 2021

Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, October 19 (online), 2021

Awards

Finalist for the 2021 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize

Publications

Alty, G. & Hard Lawrie, C. & Potkin, L. (2024, May). Gallery Panel: Lily Langley. Art / Edit + Interior Design, Volume Number #39. Page 138.

Harper, A. (2023, February 4-5). ‘Motormouth Comics’: Lily Langley, Good Grief Studios Until February 12th’. The Mercury: Weekend Edition, page 16.

(2023, December) TEXTA. Booker Magazine, Issue #001. Pages 7 & 8.