About

Lily Langley / Motormouth Comics

Lily Langley is an emerging contemporary artist who utilises visual storytelling and character creation to envisage alternate realities, appropriating the masculine laconic figure of the Larrikin to tell narratives of generational trauma, substance abuse, mateship and camaraderie. 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. Often juxtaposing violence and “bad behaviour” with tenderness and love between friends, the works act to disrupt and disturb preconceived patriarchal ideologies within the viewer.

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:

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

‘ Death in Suburbia’ at Goodspace Gallery, January 25 — 27, 2021

Group Shows:

‘UNHENGED!’, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale. January 31, 2024

‘How Do Ants?’, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale. November 29, 2023

‘TEXTA’, DRAW Space, Enmore. 5 October – 5 November, 2023

‘Phantasmagoria’, Join the Dots gallery, Marrickville. July 19 – 29, 2023

‘Bombo Goes to Buzzcock’ at Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale. November 30, 2022

A&D Annual 2021 Graduate show, at UNSW Galleries, Paddington. December 7 — 18, 2021

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

Awards

Finalist for the 2021 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize