The Woman Who Loved to Dance Turned to Stone

Lilith Piper

Lilith Piper draws on the rich history of folklore and myth to reimagine archetypes embedded in the collective psyche. From modes of femininity, to sacredness and sexuality, Piper does the work of recovering our deepest held stories and reanimating them in the contemporary world. Working in painting, textile, print, drawing and performance, each medium contributes to the final work in an organic way – fear of suppression becomes an exploration into the ways of the body, which in turn formulates stunningly evocative lithograph prints, as with “The Woman Who Loved to Dance Turned to Stone” (2020). Ritual and fairy-tales find their way into pieces that flicker with the new becoming of form and colour. Like the tales in Ovid’s “Metamorphosis”, figures are fluid and contorted in impossibly possible ways.