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, 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. She lives and works in Gloucestershire. Her pieces are collected internationally.
"My work is an ongoing investigation into consciousness, inner transformation and meaning-making. I create mixed media paintings and sculptural objects which explore memory, emotional residue and lived experience. Working with found materials alongside acrylic, oil and tempera paint stick, my works are often autobiographical, functioning as intimate archives and external memory systems.
Intuition is central to my process. I approach a piece as a material text, allowing meaning to develop through cycles of layering, erasure and return. Organic forms, gestural marks and recurring motifs operate as a private symbolic language alongside embedded personal artefacts and incantatory fragments of text. They document the process of looking. Noticing. Lingering in an open doorway, waiting for forms to appear. Often what emerges is exuberant and polyphonic. Dreamlike and devotional, in a non-hierarchical way.
I think of my paintings akin to living documents or oral histories, holding unstable and unfixed meanings which evolve, mutate and unfold over time, as myths do. They gather narrative in a very literal sense, physically accumulating it as I revisit the same surfaces, again and again. I view my primary role as building rather than deciphering these miniature, information-rich worlds.
Lately, my focus has become increasingly forensic. My practice is newly exploring the tension between attraction and repulsion. The boundary between the beautiful and the disturbing. My latest assembled pieces are archaeological and bodily. Increasingly complex and unsettling altars to the ordinary. They are remnants, skins, vessels, or piles of evidence. Sites and surfaces built up through accumulation and excavation."
EXHIBITIONS
2026 ROOM FOR MORE, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud, UK (Duo Show)
2025 SITE, SVA John Street Gallery, Stroud, UK (Group Show)
Secret Postcard Exhibition, Under The Edge Arts, Wotton-under-Edge, UK (Group Show)
A Celebration of Neurodiversity, Intersect Arts Collective x Sands End Community Centre, London, UK (Group Show)
2024 UK Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, UK (Group Show)
Seven is a Secret, Week 45 Collective x J/M Gallery, London, UK (Group Show)
LOOK IF YOU WANT, Blue Hour Studios x Verity Wooley, London, UK (Group Show)
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
2025 Candita Clayton Gallery, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, USA
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
2026 'Tilly Trevitt', Contemporary Painters’ North (Featured)
2025 Technicolour Beat: 10 Years On, Oh Wonder, London, United Kingdom (Licensed as Official Single Artwork)
Loupe Art Streaming, Atlanta, United States (Licensed for Digital Artworks)
'Issue 4', Megazine, London, United Kingdom (Featured)
2024 '329 - Tilly Trevitt', ArtByArtists (Featured)
'Tilly Trevitt', GetScene (Featured)
OPEN STUDIOS
2026 2-Week Pop-Up, Aly Lloyd Studio & Handmade In Painswick, Painswick, UK
2025 SITE Festival, Stroud Studios, Stroud, UK
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