Lydia Needle’s work is an invitation to reflect on our impact on the earth and each other. Using waste, vintage, and sustainable materials, she create pieces that explore regeneration and interconnectedness.

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Artist Statement for Warped and Wasted

‘My contribution to Warped and Wasted draws on years of collecting discarded, second-hand, and natural materials – motheaten blankets, hessian, scrap clothes, and natural fibres from small-scale producers. This project transforms my long-held stash into tactile, sculptural works that invite reflection and interaction. The stash itself becomes a central theme: a symbol of personal resourcefulness but also of excess, consumption, and the impulse to hoard in the name of creativity. These hidden accumulations, often passed on or abandoned, echo wider issues of waste, legacy, and the material remnants we all leave behind.’

Details of individual works

Other people’s cast-offs and personal failures, 2025

Materials: Scrap materials, second-hand hessian, motheaten vintage blankets

Magical Thinking, 2025

Materials: Motheaten vintage blankets, wool yarn, string, wool tops

solace, 2025

Materials: vintage chair, scrap materials, motheaten vintage blankets, vintage yarn and thread, string.