Kirsty Lillico’s practice has long occupied the territory where sculpture, craft and drawing meet. Working with materials sourced from the margins of everyday life - offcuts of carpet, building paper, rope, recycled fabric and fibres – natural and manmade. Previously she has reinterpreted architectural floor plans as wall-hung, suspended and freestanding forms, objects that carried the weight and ideology of modernist design made tactile and malleable. Lillico was artist-in-residence at Tylee Cottage from July to November 2024. The opportunity allowed her a sustained period of research and making to push her practice into new territory, exploring weaving alongside the material inquiries that have defined her work.

The Tylee Cottage Residency is generously supported by Creative New Zealand.