Lily Senner

Degree: BA Fine Art
University: Newcastle University
Graduation Year: 2019

New Blood Art Commentary

See Lily Senner featured alongside David Hockney

Enjoy an upbeat and abstract celebration of colour in the uplifting work of modern day Pop Artist Lily Senner. Senner’s art is a glamorous exploration of ‘memory, half-remembered and half-imagined’, and invites the viewer to experience glorious unreality.

Senner’s vibrant palette conjures electrifying Pop Art to celebrate the entreating subject: moments only half lost. Take for example, ‘Midnight Swim’, the fundamental form of which takes the shape of a swimming pool under the moonlight. The pool has been remembered as a kaleidoscopic dreamscape; captured using Senner’s diverse array of marks and chameleon colours. Her vibrant, near neon palette and the blissful spirit of the work call to mind Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. Lily cites David Hockney as one of her greatest influences, and this homage runs through her work: particularly in her choice of clean contoured suburban landscapes, a number of which feature pools and call to mind Hockney’s famed Swimming Pools series.

Artist Statement

Lily Senner is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Senner’s landscapes focus on colour relationships and the use of line and shape to create visually stimulating canvases whilst interweaving subtle narratives into her imagery. Senner studied painting and drawing at The Royal Drawing school (2015) and fine art at Newcastle University (2019) where she refined her vivid colour palette and developed her skills working on a large scale. Senner gains much of her inspiration from the natural environments and landscapes she finds herself in and often incorporates imagined aspects creating a sense of fantasy. Senner works in several mediums including oil, soft pastel, ink, marker pen and colour pencil. Senners work belongs to several private collections across the UK and she is a member of the working class creative database.

Solo Exhibitions

(2022) Heaven On Earth, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne

(2018) Lily Senner, The Spaghetti Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne

Group Exhibitions

(2021) This is not a show, Pineapple Black, Sheffield

(2021) Life on Venus, The Tub, London

(2020) The Summer Exhibition, The Lovely Gallery, London

(2019) NCL Graduate Show, Copeland Gallery, London

(2019) Degree Show, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

(2017) Summer Exhibition, The Lovely Gallery (Pop up), Tokyo

(2016) Narrative, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne

(2016) Vane, The Abject Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Competitions, Prizes & Awards

(2018) ACS Materials Prize