Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess
23 November - 27 April 2025Our new Universal Ticket allows access to our entire gallery. This ticket operates on a ‘Pay If and What You Can’ basis. Upon arrival, please go to gallery reception where our universal ticket is available. No pre-booking necessary. If you would like to make a Group Booking or have additional access needs, please contact us on scva@uea.ac.uk or 01603 593199
Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess
Lindsey Mendick (b.1987) subverts the tradition of ceramics with her darkly comic, confessional works. Her newly commissioned sculptures for the Sainsbury Centre will be strikingly personal, tackling social taboos and exposing the artist’s secret fears.
For the Why Do We Take Drugs? season, Mendick will reveal her reliance on antidepressants and relationship with alcohol, used to navigate stressful social situations and cope with the threatening unpredictability of daily life. Mendick’s subversive practice candidly addresses the stigma attached to the use of certain medications, such as antidepressants.
Positioning her works amongst paintings by Francis Bacon and Leonora Carrington and sculpture from the Arctic to Africa, Mendick will create a surprising intervention in the Sainsbury Centre’s ‘Living Area’ collection display to disrupt the clean aesthetic like a wild and unwelcome guest at a party.
Hot Mess is part of a six-month season of interlinked exhibitions and events that explore the question Why Do We Take Drugs?
Lindsey Mendick, SH*TFACED at Jupiter Artland, 2023. Installation View. Copyright Lindsey Mendick. Image by John Mackenzie.