About Lydia

I’m a creative youth worker, facilitator, and visual artist with over eight years’ experience designing and delivering creative projects for young people across youth hostels, local authority provision, PRUs, primary and secondary schools, CAMHS, and youth and community centres.

My practice sits at the intersection of art and youth work, using creativity (in all its forms) to nourish young people in making sense of themselves and the world around them. In the spaces I create, I want young people to feel seen, heard and capable; where they can say, with chest, “I can do that.”

My work as an artist, youth worker, and facilitator isn’t separate. Having spent a long time navigating my own relationship with being ‘an artist,’ questioning my skill, worthiness, and what counts as ‘real’ art, my practice is an antidote to my own insecurities and self-belief, the same feelings I see in the young people I work with.

We need to widen the lens on who gets to be creative. I will forever prioritise process over polished outcomes, and am way more interested in how it feels to make, and what we learn in the process.