Lindsey Mendick (born 1987) is a British artist who works primarily in ceramics, often within large-scale installations. Her practice reinterprets the associations of clay with domesticity and decoration, drawing on autobiography, popular culture, and explorations of gender. [1]
She received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2017, after completing a BA at Sheffield Hallam University. [2] Her exhibitions have been staged at venues including Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Hayward Gallery, and she won the Sky Arts Award for Visual Art in 2024. [3] [4]
Works by Mendick are held in the Arts Council Collection (UK) [5] and the UK Government Art Collection. [6]
Mendick co-founded Quench, a not-for-profit project space in Margate established to present exhibitions and support early-career artists. Quench is now run by Mendick, Gemma Pharo and Guy Oliver. [7] [8]
Her installation Till Death Do Us Part (2022) was commissioned for the Hayward Gallery exhibition Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art. The work featured wedding-themed ceramic tableaux, combining humour and grotesque imagery to explore intimacy and domesticity. [9] [10]
Her solo exhibition Where the Bodies Are Buried opened at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2023. The show transformed the galleries into a domestic interior haunted by references to soap operas and popular culture, with large-scale ceramic figures and furnishings. [11] [12]
In 2022 she presented Off With Her Head at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, an immersive installation that combined ceramics, video projections and theatrical sets to stage a surreal narrative around women's roles throughout history. [13]
Her exhibition Hot Mess at the Sainsbury Centre (2024) filled the galleries with autobiographical ceramic sculptures referencing nightlife, chaos and vulnerability. [14]
In 2025 Mendick created Wicked Game for Kenilworth Castle, a site-specific installation engaging with Elizabeth I's court, staging her ceramic figures within the historic interiors. [15]