Lily Cummins is a tactile artist who lives and works on Gundungurra land in Mittagong, NSW. Her practice explores both her self, her memories and the emotive bonds and attachments people develop to place. Her work relies exclusively upon mining her own experience of remembrance, absence and loss.
Working across painting, drawing and installation, Cummins, through investigative mark making and colour theory, seeks to explore an ambiguous narrative, conceived through repeated forms, structures and a physical language that suggests the inevitable passage of time and the decay of memory.
Her practice acts as an auto-historical excavation and as an attempt to recollect the anamnesis that through medical intervention have been forcibly removed from her person. She makes to remember and also so that she will not forget.
Cummins was recently profiled in Critics Choice by Monte, Megan. Art Collector (July-September 2022); received Highly Commended awards in the Waterbrook Drawing Prize (2021); and the Wingecarribee Landscape Prize (2021); and exhibited in The Weirds, curated by Sophie Vander, Curatorial + Co, Redfern, Sydney (2020).
