Lydia Moraitis is an emerging London based Artist who works primarily with screen printing. Born in 2000, she spent her early life in the Lake District before studying at The Ruskin School of Art from 2019-2022. Since graduating, she has exhibited across the UK; Key exhibitions include ‘Made it 2022’ at Rogue Artist Studios, Manchester (October 2022), Woolwich contemporary print fair with Meakin + Parsons X Hannah Payne (November 2022) and ‘Saint Nicholas’ at Meakin + Parsons X Hannah Payne, Oxford (December 2022).

Lydia’s practice is an act of self-exploration. Utilising a combination of poetry, collage, screen printing and sculpture to explore autobiographical themes, her work explores confessions of fear, love, loss, and an element of poetic humour.

Working with existing phrases or a poem she’s composed, her process begins in the medium of collage, taking elements and literal cut outs from mass media which become installations with each sculpture punctuating the space. She uses imagery gathered from magazines before reprinting them onto MDF, subverting them alongside autobiographical iconography/ symbology relating to her personal experiences. The imagery she uses act as a reclamation of hyper-sexuality, presenting images that can be seen as suggestive in their context but challenging the 'brain-washed' visual association to them. Reminiscent of their original form, the cut of the paper is mimicked in the shape of the MDF, allowing for copycat tears and jagged scissor lines. She then pairs them with found objects, clashing textures of soft and strong, gloss and matte, bringing the 2D into the 3D.

In her own words, “It’s a process of understanding a phrase and recreating it in a new magnified form; the puns become visual, the origin of the image now decontextualised and reconstructed.”

Lydia is currently completing a residency at Surbiton High School in Surrey where she works full-time on her artwork.