Lindsey Mendick (born 1987) is a British artist who works primarily in ceramics, often within large-scale installations. Her practice reinterprets the associations of clay with domesticity and decoration, drawing on autobiography, popular culture, and explorations of gender.[1]
She received an MA in Sculpture from theRoyal College of Art in 2017, after completing a BA atSheffield Hallam University.[2] Her exhibitions have been staged at venues includingYorkshire Sculpture Park and theHayward Gallery, and she won theSky Arts Award for Visual Art in 2024.[3][4]
Works by Mendick are held in theArts Council Collection (UK)[5] and theUK Government Art Collection.[6]
Mendick co-founded Quench, a not-for-profit project space in Margate established to present exhibitions and support early-career artists. Quench is now run by Mendick, Gemma Pharo andGuy Oliver.[7][8]
Her installationTill Death Do Us Part (2022) was commissioned for the Hayward Gallery exhibitionStrange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art. The work featured wedding-themed ceramic tableaux, combining humour and grotesque imagery to explore intimacy and domesticity.[9][10]
Her solo exhibitionWhere the Bodies Are Buried opened at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2023. The show transformed the galleries into a domestic interior haunted by references to soap operas and popular culture, with large-scale ceramic figures and furnishings.[11][12]
In 2022 she presentedOff With Her Head atCarl Freedman Gallery, Margate, an immersive installation that combined ceramics, video projections and theatrical sets to stage a surreal narrative around women's roles throughout history.[13]
Her exhibitionHot Mess at theSainsbury Centre (2024) filled the galleries with autobiographical ceramic sculptures referencing nightlife, chaos and vulnerability.[14]
In 2025 Mendick createdWicked Game forKenilworth Castle, a site-specific installation engaging with Elizabeth I's court, staging her ceramic figures within the historic interiors.[15]