ALY LLOYD – MAKING SENSE
- Jan 1
- 2 min read
SIXTEEN GALLERY |25 JUNE – 1 JULY
ALY LLOYD PRESENTS MAKING SENSE
Making Sense is Aly Lloyd's debut solo exhibition of textile paintings, exploring how we see and sense. Hosted at Sixteen Gallery, this exhibition presents a series of light-responsive paintings, rendered onto tactile surfaces such as velvet, moire and denim that change with light and movement, and emphasise the experience of seeing, perception and the senses.
Bringing forward a philosophy of accessibility, participation and reconnecting art with the everyday, the exhibition invites viewers to engage their senses, physically alter surfaces through interactive works, and take part in how the work is valued through a dynamic pricing concept.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aly Lloyd (b. 1990, Gloucester) is a painter, printmaker and textile artist working in Painswick, Stroud. Her practice explores visual perception through pattern, repetition and structure, creating works on tactile, sensory surfaces that reflect how we perceive and organise visual information.
Working across material surfaces such as velvet, denim and moiré, Lloyd creates light-responsive paintings that shift with movement and viewing angle. These effects keep perception active, slowing down the act of looking and foregrounding painting as a sensory experience. Her work moves between hyper-real and abstract, articulated through a distinct visual language of geometric structure, organic pattern and recurring motifs such as material folds, designed to prevent the eye from settling and sustain bodily presence.
Lloyd’s approach brings together disparate fields, informed by a PhD background in visual psychology, design communication and computer science, alongside an ongoing interest in neurodiversity and sensory processing. Her process begins with digitally manipulating images, before meticulously translating them through the physical act of painting onto hand-built textile canvases, built up in repeated layers over weeks or months.
Lloyd has exhibited nationally, with work presented through Sotheby’s, Mall Galleries, The Other Art Fair, and Elysium Gallery. Through her practice, she explores questions around the role of art beyond institutional frameworks and commodities, positioning painting as a fundamental human act of expression, regulation and non-verbal communication. In 2024, she launched a permanently open studio in Painswick, inviting visitors to engage directly with her process as part of a wider commitment to making art feel less detached from everyday life and more open, participatory and accessible.
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