ABOUT TILLY


ARTIST BIO

 

Tilly Trevitt (b. 1997, London) is a contemporary British fine artist working across abstract, figurative, and text-based forms. Self-taught as a painter, she has rapidly established a visual language that merges emotional intensity with intimacy and playful conceptual clarity.

Trevitt’s work is informed by an academic background in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (BA, MA, MSt), followed by a career in journalism and digital media. In early 2023, she transitioned to visual art, developing a process-led practice that balances intuition with intention. As an AuDHD artist, Trevitt prioritises self-accessibility. She uses studio time to engage with previously shamed aspects of herself and explore what unmasked expression can look like. 

Sharp, diaristic, and deliberately unpolished, Trevitt’s work often incorporates found materials alongside bold, vandalistic written elements. Her pieces are collected in the UK and internationally, including in the US and Australasia. She lives and works in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds. Her studio is open to visitors by appointment.

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT 

 

I use my paintings to work through things - moods, emotional spells, philosophic conundrums. I incorporate many found, collected, kept and inherited or gifted objects. I’m deeply sentimental, but also trying to let go of as much as possible, so I like to move on what I no longer need. Cards, letters, photos, USBs, crystals and more have found their way into my works. It’s the same with memories and lived experiences. (They are materials too.) 

I think of the works as disembodied spells as well. I am breaking things up and down; finding new ways to fit the parts together; figuring out what needs to go. What’s happening on the outside is happening in me too. While I’m making shapes and pasting down pages, I'm dismantling limiting beliefs. Dissolving grudges and grievances. That’s where the real work is, which the paintings are a record of.

My pieces involve randomness, imperfection and chaos, but they’re also meticulously considered. This paradox makes sense to me as an Autistic + ADHD individual. I like to introduce the unexpected, but there must also be balance. An equilibrium. I notice recurring motifs in my work: organic forms and personal sigils and scribbles or scrawls especially. Drawing them soothes me, but they’re a private code too. The traces I’ve left behind allow me a peek into my subconscious. 

Play is important to me. As is whimsy. I am serious about being silly! I’m a big fan of Philip Guston’s work. Ken Done and David Hockney too. (Plus Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Tracey Emin.) But the whole world is influential, and the inside of my head is very loud, so there’s always lots to draw on. 

 

ARTIST CV   

  • 2025 'SITE Exhibition' (Featured and Co-Curated), SVA John St Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire 
  • 2025 Candita Clayton Gallery (Represented By), Rhode Island, USA
  • 2025 Secret Postcard Charity Auction and Exhibition for Project Trust, Wooton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire 
  • 2025 SITE Festival Open Studios, Gloucestershire
  • 2025 SITE Festival Artists Under 30 Bursary (Selected), Gloucestershire

  • 2025 ‘A Celebration Of Neurodiversity’, Intersect Arts Collective, Sands End Arts & Community Centre, London

  • 2025 Loupe Art Streaming Platform (Licensed), Online 

  • 2025 Official Single Artwork for ‘Technicolour Beat' Rerelease (Licensed), Oh Wonder
  • 2025 ‘Contemporary Drawing’, Spring Term, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester 

  • 2025 ‘Issue 4’ (Featured), Megazine, London 

  • 2024 ‘Visual Art Open 24’ (Longlisted), Visual Artists’ Association

  • 2024 ‘UK Open’, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington

  • 2024 ‘Seven is a Secret’, Week 45 Collective X J/M Gallery, London

  • 2024 'Follower Spotlight - Tilly Trevitt', GetScene, Online
  • 2024 ‘LOOK IF YOU WANT’, Blue Hour Studios X Verity Wooley, London 

  • 2024 North London Makers' Market, London

  • 2024 ‘329 - Tilly Trevitt’ (Interview), ArtByArtists 

  • 2024 ‘ART FUSION’, Momentum Coffee, London 

  • 2024 ‘January Exhibition’, VVArts Studio, London 

  • 2024 99 Future Blue Chip Artists (Selected and Published), Artsted

  • 2023 ‘Future Stars: Xmas Edition’, Holy Art Gallery, London 

  • 2023 ‘Euphoria’, Virtual Artists, Online 

  • 2023 ‘Born To Be Wild’, Virtual Artists, Online
  • 2020 Master of Studies in English (1830-1914), University of Oxford (Distinction/First)

  • 2020 ‘Postpartum’ (Published), The Mays 28, Varsity Publications Ltd 

  • 2020 ‘Phone Home’ (Published and Commended), Dial-A-Poem National Student Competition, Nottingham Trent University, Crossed Lines Project

  • 2019 Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, University of Oxford (2:1 with First in Dissertation)

  • 2017 ‘belief is not a dirty word’ (Published), ASH 

  • 2017 Academic Scholarship (Awarded), Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

  • 2016 ‘Cathy,’ (Longlisted), Bridport Poetry Prize




Photos: Serena Bolton Photography