Kirsty Lillico: Heavy Falls / 4 July – 25 October 2026
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Kirsty Lillico: Heavy Falls / 4 July – 25 October 2026

Kirsty Lillico. Butter my muffin. 2025. Carpet, synthetic felt, dyed rope. Image courtesy of the artist

 

Kirsty Lillico’s practice has long occupied the territory where sculpture, craft and drawing meet. Working with materials sourced from the margins of everyday life – offcuts of carpet, building paper, rope, recycled fabric and fibres – natural and manmade. Previously she has reinterpreted architectural floor plans as wall-hung, suspended and freestanding forms, objects that carried the weight and ideology of modernist design made tactile and malleable.

Lillico was artist-in-residence at Tylee Cottage from July-November 2024 and the opportunity allowed her a sustained period of research and making to push her practice into new territory, exploring weaving alongside the material inquiries that have defined her work. The exhibition presents the body of work that has evolved since her time in Whanganui.

 

The Sarjeant Gallery’s artist-in-residence programme is generously supported by Creative New Zealand.

 

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