Lottie Stoddart, 'Terrarium'

Lottie Stoddart (b. 1989, Cambridge, UK) is a London-based artist and writer. Her multi-disciplinary practice encompasses painting, ceramic, textile, animation and creative writing. These varied modes cross-pollinate in endless strains and variations around her core interest in narrative constructions; stories which are condensed, cut-up, distorted, layered and repositioned to create versions and inversions. An engagement with the evolution of literature underlies this process of distillation, where stories are excavated and reinterpreted. Stoddart often stages these formations within a recessed space that has intimations of theatre, memory boxes and bass relief. She likes each component to be as specific as the word choice in a verse of free-form poetry, where the clues to decoding lies in illusion, materiality and humorous juxtaposition.