I’m a creative youth worker and visual artist with over eight years of experience designing and facilitating group visual arts projects with 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 value process over perfection, and am interested in slow, relational and accessible forms of making.  I want the young people I work with to feel seen, heard and capable; where they can say, with chest, “I can do that.”

More recently, I’ve been exploring my own identity as a visual artist, creating multidisciplinary artworks that bring the cultural and social value of youth work into public view, exploring what happens when the objects, stories, and histories of youth work become a visual language of their own.

Recent works include Sidings, Camden Arts Centre (2025), Commissions by Whittington Health NHS Trust and Islington CAMHS (2025), Welcome Home (2025), Manifest (2024), The Art of English (2024. My work has been recognised through the Roundhouse Creative Leadership Programme (2024) and Creative Generation's Young and Emerging Leaders cohort (2022).

About Lydia