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Lindsay Mapes

Lindsay Mapes’ work embodies the raw, unfiltered experience of life, channeling its beauty, chaos, and contradictions into every piece. Through an intuitive and expressive approach, she transforms mistakes and imperfections into vital elements of her art - much like the Japanese practice of kintsugi, where flaws are mended with gold and become part of the object’s story.

Mapes embraces an openhearted, vulnerable process, allowing the messiness of her materials - and of life itself - to remain visible. Her work is deeply informed by her experience of parenthood, which she describes as encompassing:

“realness, messiness, colour, brightness, boldness, joy, sadness, loneliness, and dangers.”

These themes flow through her work, creating a powerful connection to the complexity and beauty of human experience. Celebrated in a major TV documentary and exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mapes is a distinctive voice in contemporary art. Her ability to balance playfulness with depth, joy with rawness, and chaos with harmony elevates her practice.

To live with Lindsay Mapes’ work is to invite the energy of aliveness, honesty, and transformation into your space - a celebration of life’s beautiful imperfection.

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