Crimson DM Lily is predominantly a textile artist, who is informed by traditional textile techniques, but executes them in a ‘punk’ manor, creating installations, garments and wall mounted pieces. She was born in Devon to Northern English parents whose life trajectories are often referenced within her work. Her recent research involves how heritage and familial mythmaking can contribute to identity and reflects on how ancestry and birthplace contributes to personal identity: why one desires to showcase, or hide, the culture and geography of one’s belonging. She’s fascinated at how Capitalism’s omnipresence intercepts and often disrupts this.

Crimson unfurls her own heritage in terms of passed down collective memory whilst also being sensitive to the landscapes that surround these personal accounts. Some pieces are informed by the stark differences in the landscape of her rural Devonian heritage and the metropolitan concrete buzz of her current London abode. She is interested in how other people navigate their own selfhoods and will collaborate with musicians to explore this, recently the Welsh speaking, post punk band ‘Adwaith,’ and London punk band ‘Thigh High.'

Her broader research is concerned with: Capitalism and consequences of its powers; the fashion industry and its psychological impact; clothing and its relationship with the body; the dialectical tensions found in tailoring and how one can treat fabric as an organism when adorning the body.

Examples of her unconventional making processes include: Tailoring with shower curtains, manipulating baler twine into wearable garments and interrupting knitting processes to create textures. Digital collaging also forms her methodology, using nonchalant photos from her phone and sketches/writings from her journal. Recently, she’s extended this digital part of her practice by working with film and sound.

She has consistently exhibited work and given lectures and talks across the UK, including: Alchemy Film and Moving Image festival; Bermondsey Project Space; Worcester university; Safehouse.

She currently lives and works in London where she is a Constructed Textiles Tutor at Goldsmiths and the Sales and Digital manager at Phoebe English.


CV
Born in Devon. 1998
Currently lives and works in London.

Art Foundation Exeter School of Art. Distinction. 2018
BA Fine Art with History of Art Goldsmiths University of London. First. 2021

Film screening and Q&A for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. 2025
Dominion, Safehouse. 2025
Guest Lecturer at University of Worcester. 2025

Granted RSA Grant. 2024
Film screening, talk and Q&A for Tai a Mynyddoedd, Goldsmiths Cinema. 2024
Cut From the Same Cloth, Bermondsey Project Space. 2024

Granted RSA Grant. 2023
The Great Hall Exhbition, curated by Andia Coral Newton. 2023

Collaboration with Adwaith. 2022

Awarded Junior Fellow for Fine Art with History of Art at Goldsmiths. 2021
Mega Mega, Site Festival. 2021
Shortlisted for the SPACE award. 2021
Collaboration with Thigh High. 2021