Lindsey Mendick
British artist
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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]
Selected work and exhibitions
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]