About
Lydia McCaig’s practice is multidisciplinary, exploring the interplay between female sexuality/feminism, seduction/male gaze and erotica/objectification. She navigates these topics, primarily through performative photographic works, audio, video, installation and narrative texts.
McCaig locates her own body as a site from which to make performative gestures that propose the personal as political, the unsaid as universal and desire in all its forms as an imagined space we occasionally share.
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Exhibitions​
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The Nasty Book, Joint Solo Show
Division of Labour, Paradise Works Salford
2024
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The Temptation Of..., Joint Solo Show
The Second Act Gallery, London
2024
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The Manchester Contemporary Solo Booth
Manchester Central Convention Complex
2023
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Shadow Self, Group Show
New House Art Spaces, Guildford
2022
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Solo Show
Kampus, Manchester
2022
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The Second Act Gallery, Group Show
Pop Up Exhibition, Blackburn
2022
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Solo Show
Darbyshires, London
2022
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Little Bruises, Solo Show
Prism Contemporary, Blackburn
2022
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The Manchester Contemporary Art Fair
Manchester Central Convention Complex
2021
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Studio, Group Show
Prism Contemporary, Blackburn
2021
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Three's a Crowd, Group Show
Prism Contemporary, Blackburn
2021
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The Studio Show, Group Show
Prism Contemporary, Blackburn
2019
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MADE IT Short Supply, Group Show
Paradise Works, Salford
2019
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The Degree Show, Group Show
Victoria Building, Blackburn
2019
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Away Days, Group Show
Stone Jetty Café, Morecambe
2018
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Atlantic Contemporary Art Fair
The Grand, Clitheroe
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girls girls girls, Group Show
Prism Contemporary, Blackburn
2018​
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Curation & Producing
Prism Contemporary
Gallery Director
2023 - Current
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Uncultured Creatives
Assistant Creative Producer
2020 - Current
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The Second Act
Project Assistant
2021 - Current
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British Textile Biennial
Education Programme Coordinator
2023
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A Modest Show
Assistant Creative Producer
2022
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Samantha Jagger 'Loosen Up'
Curator
2022
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Space Fifty Nine
Co-Producer
2021-2022
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Super Slow Way
Assistant Creative Producer
2021 - 2022
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British Textile Biennial
Assistant Creative Producer
2021
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Craig Easton 'Bank Top'
Assistant Producer
2019 - 2020
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Kick Down The Barriers
Assistant Producer
2019 - 2020
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GENDER
Curator
2019
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girls girls girls
Curator
2018
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Commissions​
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Of Earth and Sky
Public Artwork, The National Festival of Making
2021
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MAKE ART NOT WAR
Workshops
2020
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Great Places Workshops
Workshops, The National Festival of Making
2019
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Print & Preach
Screen Printing Workshops, The British Textile Biennial
2019
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The Bauhaus Girls
Mural Workshop, The Vintage Festival
2019
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Suffragette Inspired Workshop
Screen Printing Workshop, The National Festival of Making
2018
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What We Need More Of
Screen Printing Workshop, The Vintage Festival
2018
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SHEPWR
Screen Printing Workshops, The Deaf Institute
2018
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Selected Publications​
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Saatchi Art and Music Magazine
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Like a Girl Zine, Issue 03
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THE FACE Magazine
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The Lancashire Telegraph
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