Lily Donaldson is a London-based painter and filmmaker whose practice explores the interconnected themes of home, heritage, and memory. Her work investigates how personal and collective histories shape identity and belonging, often drawing from lived experience and archival material.
Residencies:
September 2026: The Artist Lab
October 2025- March 2026: ACME
Memberships
Solo Exhibitions
10-21 September 2026: Behave and Other Things at The London Art Bar
Selected Group Exhibitions
30 July-13 August 2026: As I Said with One Word Workshops and the Saatchi Gallery at The Poetry Society
2-8 June 2026: Skin of the Earth curated by Tim Green at Three Rooms
8-14 May 2026: Swamp Witches Catharsis at Corner New Cross
20-24 March 2026: Grafters Collective Time, Well Spent at ACME Billet Road studios
8 March 2026: Swamp Witches: Get Out of Frame screening at The London Art Bar
29 November- 3 December 2025: Art Club Collective- Group exhibition at Peckham Rye Waiting Room
23 October- 2 November 2025: Autumn Salon at Candid Arts Trust
26 July- 9 August 2025: A Gallery of One's Own at Ethereal Maison Gallery
3 July 2025: Grafters Collective screening at Modern Art Oxford
10 May 2025: Grafters in Residence at Hypha Studios
10 April -17 May 2025: Grafters Collective Home is Where the Art is at Hypha Studios
2024: Chaos Impreint
2021: Works from Home at Hundred Years Gallery
Raiya Magazine- Issue 03 Maufactured Muse: Music Reviews, Meta Glasses, and Jiggle Physics October 2026
One Word Workshops- As I Said: Poetry and artwork in conversatation August 2026
Suboart Magazine: Nr. 51 December/January 2025
Press
FAD Magazine: Home is where the art is, by Grafters Collective at Hypha HQ
a-n: Class of 2021
Education
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, 2018-2021
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, West Suffolk College, 2017-2018
Level 3 Diploma in Art and Design, West Suffolk College, 2015-2017