LILITH & LUKE PIPER presents:
INNER LANDSCAPE
Midsummer Solstice Celebration
Pilton Tithe Barn, Somerset
EXHIBITION RUNS:
Thursday June 18th — Wednesday June 24th
Open 11am to 6pm daily
FREE SOLSTICE EVENTS
An open invitation to experience the Pipers’ artwork brought to life through Music & Ritual within one of Somerset’s most atmospheric historic spaces in the lead up to the Solstice.
Thursday 18th
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Saturday 20th
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THE VENUE
Situated on the Michael Line, with Glastonbury Tor visible in the distance, the exhibition unfolds inside the historic barn restored by Sir Michael Eavis. Once struck by lightning and left in ruins, the building stands as a site of reawakening.
The Pilton Tithe Barn sits at the heart of the Vale of Avalon overlooking King’s Hill and the sacred grounds of Glastonbury Festival. Originally built in the 14th century to store produce for Glastonbury Abbey, the barn was restored by Sir Michael Eavis and reopened in 2005 following decades of ruin.
Its commanding position within the Somerset landscape makes it a uniquely resonant setting for INNER LANDSCAPE, an exhibition deeply rooted in ideas of memory, land, ancestry and belonging.
Luke and Lilith create work inspired by the landscape in which they live and work, while also sharing their practice collaboratively through installations and music, which in turn feed back into the artwork itself.
At its centre is a monumental oak tree sculpture, first created for one of the Pipers’ Glastonbury Festival stages, surrounded by sound works and live performance from musicians within the TREE SONICS collective.
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Falmouth University graduate Lilith Piper (b. 1999) received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2020. Her practice continues to expand across changing media, scale, and artistic disciplines, including set design, performance art, site-specific installation, and collaborative land-based works.
Working iteratively, Piper builds a relationship with the landscape through observation and sensory immersion outdoors, translating these experiences into abstraction and improvisation within the studio. Her process is deeply weather-dependent and rooted in extended periods spent outside, where environment, material, and movement inform the development of each work.
She collaborates with other artists and collectives to create performances, installations, and live land-based works, and has participated in numerous exhibitions and live events.
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THE TREE STAGE
THE TREE STAGE
2023/2026
Creative producer and programmer of the Tree Stage in Glastonbury Festival’s Woodsies area
300-year-old oak tree has been structured in the centre of the site to
remind guests of their “connection with nature”.
Lilith piper at Glastonbury festival, Commissioned by the WRA (white ribbon alliance) (2022)
Painting installation in a 30ft yurt, 16 paintings connecting to stories of mothers lives lost.
Residency with Hauser & Wirth in Braemar, Scotland
octyypt works in response to the local landscape. 8 Frames stretched with canvas, installed in the landscape
AVALON STAGE 2022
Glastonbury festival, Stage scrims. Liliths designs stage left and right on Avalon stage.
Tree shrine installation, 12 Tree drawings woven into wooden frame
“I like to find a more elemental approach to presenting my work. I wanted to share this experience
of drawing with trees. How it feels to be within the structure of a trees surroundings, it feels
to me a very contained and resonating experience. I feel held buy their roots, and up above their
brunches weaving together a formation to discover.
This is a scared place in ode to trees.
The tree structure is has been built out of larch wood
The head board has been created out of Maple Vaneer
The shrine alter made from Ash wood”
SILO SONG
Exhibition at Shatwell farm Somerset, Winter, solstice (2022)
The song of the Silo | Video and sound installation in the Grain Silo.
The film was filmed on my residency with Hauser & Wirth. Underwater film, footage from the River Dee Scotland, August 2022
The meaning of the Dee is Goddess. The purest of water I ever did swim. Through the film I fly through flickering forms of a song. I express the need for listening and healing in nature. Just as the wind-blown tree is the living energy of the wind, the body is the waters movement, its song. I feel the crystal-clear cairngorms waters ambrosia through my body, dropping into the sensual world…everything that we don’t know, everything that we can only feel. The silo becomes an exploding horn of plenty. where we preserve and encapsulate the goodness within
LABYRINTH Fire ceremony
Exhibition at Shatwell farm Somerset, Winter
solstice (2022)
A Swedish torch fire labyrinth installation and
ceremony. Created in collaboration with Mark Willienbruch.
Symbolising the return of the sun into the world again, is a labyrinth spiral created by Mark Willienbruch. A Cup and ring marking on the land, a spiral space to hold the universal energy of suns life force. Mark ‘Walking the illuminated spiral invites you to look within whilst simultaneously being present to the outer world, bringing forth our luminous souls.’
journey to the centre of the labyrinth spiral and burn with conscious forgetting, taking with you only the essence of the medicine as you let go your intention.
Link to the Film
"MY HEARTS IN THE HIGHLANDS CHASING THE DEER"
Stretching a deer hide onto a frame. The Deer hide is celebrated through performance. on the left the deer hide becomes a screen for video projection. "silo song" is projected on to this canvas.
on The right, the hide came with me to the Bramear Highland games, where I painted onto the canvas. people where invited to come and chat, to open the conversation.
MY HEARTS IN THE HIGHLANDS CHASING THE DEER
TITHE BARN SOLO SHOW
‘Piccalilith Myth’ Exhibition, Solo show exhibition of works and live on the opening and closing ceremonies. In the Tithe
barn pilton, on the Glastonbury festival site. October (2021)
Deepening a celebration between light and dark, a luscious lore of land and body, set in the
stone walls of the c14th medieval barn filled with paintings & tapestries, moving like fluid sounds of a song and weaving stories spun by candlelight.
'Born and bred in Somerset, Lilith is welcomed the opportunity by festival founder Michael Eavis to stage her multimedia exhibition in the C.14th tithe barn loving restored by him on the Glastonbury festival site. The installation of paintings, ceramic, textiles, prints and drawing together with performance art will bring the ancient walls to life again.'
Candlestick cross installation and performance at the Tithe barn 2022
The candlestick maker has been at work!
The dancers will move out of their stone walls
Awakening the painterly atmosphere
with performance & sound
THE BOOK OF LILITH
The Book Of Lilith. Printed in Somerset, exhibited in St. Moritz
and Bruton (Hauser and Wirth)
Journey Out of Eden, The Book of Lilith is a hand bound, hand
coloured and embossed 40 page concerRna book 9” x 6” (230mm x
155mm) and 6000mm long. It has been printed in an ediRon of 50
on the highest quality 320gsm Hahnemühle Fine Art paper and will
be released for exhibiRon bellow*
*Summer of Love exhibiKon at KUNSTGALERIE CENTRAL ST. St
Morits, Switzerland. (2019)
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King Pigeon, Adorned in a cloak of gold, 2020
Mixed media and fabric, mounted with black velvet
Installation view 'in real life' graduate exhibition, the Maltings.
Courtesy of artist and Hauser & Wirth
"descent" by Midland actors Theatre
Commission to create bespoke Shadow cloak for the Goddess in the play 'Descent'
https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2021/08/07/review-descent-dark-metaphysical-journey-towards-light/
Set design and costume by Lilith Piper for theatre production “Descent” by Midland Actors Theatre, Birmingham August 2021.
Large printed gauzes “Winter Solstice Illumination” on the right and “Goddess figure” on the left.
“The Goddess’ Shadow Cloak”
2021
The dark and encompassing shapes of the shadow, inspired by moth patterns.
Hand painted/dyed velvet
The 8 elements April 2020
Mixed media on linen.
Each hanging 300cm high X 76cm wide. Here the series are installed in a concertina frame.
These wall hangings are a series of figurative works that represent the eight elements from the 2,500 year old Yi Jing or I Ching, translated as the 'Book of Changes', which is an ancient Chinese work of divination and prophesy.
The elements are here depicted as a group of eight hermaphroditic figures who converse with each other, ‘holding the space’. In old folklore everything is named in the plant kingdom and has a sacred meaning/symbol.