ABOUT
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 instinct with intention. As an AuDHD artist, Trevitt prioritises self-accessibility. She uses studio time to engage with previously shamed aspects of herself and explore unmasked expression in its fullest form.
Sharp, diaristic, and deliberately unpolished, Trevitt's work incorporates found materials alongside atmospheric washes and 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.
“I create mixed-media paintings and sculptural objects that explore memory, emotional residue, and the transformation of lived experience into material form. Working with acrylic paint, found objects, personal artefacts, photographs, letters, and keepsakes, I construct works that function as relics, offerings, archives, and personal excavations.
My practice investigates the tension between attraction and repulsion: the boundary between the beautiful and the grotesque, the seductive and the uncomfortable. Recent work navigates the pressure to aestheticise experience, particularly pain, grief, vulnerability, disability, and trauma, transforming it into something consumable, digestible, collectible, and displayable.
My assembled pieces are simultaneously archaeological and bodily. They are remnants, skins, vessels, piles of evidence and/or burial mounds. These sites and surfaces are built up through processes of accumulation and excavation, combining relief painting, embedded materials, and sculptural forms.
Intuition remains central to my process. I approach each work as a material text, allowing meaning to emerge through cycles of layering, erasure, and return rather than progressing toward a preset image. Organic forms, gestural marks, recurring motifs, and embedded artefacts operate as a private symbolic language.”
EXHIBITIONS
2026 ROOM FOR MORE, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud, UK (Upcoming)
2025 SITE, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud, UK
SITE Festival, Stroud Studios, Stroud, UK
Secret Postcard Exhibition, Under the Edge Arts, Wotton-Under-Edge, UK
A Celebration of Neurodiversity, Intersect Arts Collective x Sands End Community Centre, London, UK
2024 UK Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, UK
Seven is a Secret, Week 45 Collective x J/M Gallery, London, UK
LOOK IF YOU WANT, Blue Hour Studios, London, UK
AWARDS
2025 Artists Under 30 Bursary, SITE Festival, Gloucestershire, UK
2024 Visual Art Open, Visual Artists' Association, London, UK (Longlisted)
99 Future Blue Chip Artists, Artsted, London, UK
REPRESENTATION
Candita Clayton Gallery, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, USA
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
2025 Technicolour Beat: 10 Years On, Oh Wonder, London, United Kingdom (Licensed as Official Single Artwork)
Loupe Art Streaming, Atlanta, United States (Licensed as Digital Artwork)
'Issue 4', Megazine, London, United Kingdom (Featured)
2024 '329 - Tilly Trevitt', ArtByArtists (Featured)
'Follower Spotlight - Tilly Trevitt', GetScene (Featured)
EDUCATION
2025 Contemporary Drawing, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, UK
2021 NCTJ Diploma In Multimedia Journalism, News Associates, London, UK
2020 Master of Studies in English (1830-1914), University of Oxford, UK
2019 Bachelor of Arts in English Language & Literature, University of Oxford, UK
