Lily Leaver

Lily Leaver is a London-based intaglio printmaker. Her recent body of work, Constructing the Anti-Sublime, is a collection of prints which examine extraction, overconsumption, and the political fictions which sustain them. These environments operate as speculative sites – ruinous, post-industrial and atemporal – where human ambition is rendered unstable.

A developed visual language of motifs articulates this aesthetic, resisting resolution and favoring tension and absence. Drawing on architectural forms and extractive processes, these scenes situate the ecological crisis within broader economic and cultural frameworks of the Anthropocene.

Printmaking and sculpture meld, immersing the viewer in geometric environments, confronting them with an unsettling awareness of their own position within systems of extraction and control.