Recent work / exhibitions / events
Festivals
2024 — Mighty Hoopla: The Mobile Dyke Bar debuts as a festival venue
Exhibitions
2024 — Goldsmiths CCA, London: set design for ‘Between the Stacks’ at ‘bodying libraries’
2023 — South London Gallery, London: video work included in the SCHOOL SOS group exhibition
2023 — Truman Brewery, London Royal College of Art Graduate Show, Truman Brewery, London
2022 — Toppins Barbershop, Sunbury Studios, London: concept and exhibition design for ‘Close Shave’
Public speaking, research and curation
2024 — Royal College of Art: co-curator of ‘Queer x Time’, a three-part public event series celebrating queerness and its relationship to the built environment across time
2024 — The National Archives: guest speaker presenting ‘U-Haul Dyke Rescue Service’
2023 — London Metropolitan Archives, LGBTQ+ Conference: guest speaker and researcher presenting ‘U-Haul Dyke Rescue Service’
2023 — Household
2023 — Studio PDP
Press
2024 — Evening Standard Magazine — ‘Mobile Dyke Bar: Can you find London’s hottest new lesbian hangout?’
2023 — HÄN Archive — ‘Close Shave by Lydia Garnett, Lucy Nurnberg and Zach Toppin’
2022 — Dazed — ‘A new exhibition, Close Shave, celebrates and pays tribute to butch dyke identity and style through the lens of haircuts’
2022 — British Journal of Photography — ‘Lydia Garnett pays homage to the relationship between hair and Butch identity’
2022 — It’s Nice That —‘Close Shave chronicles Butch style in all its iconic, tender glory’
2020 — Creative Boom — ‘This lesbian cowgirl-meets-trucker music video is exactly what you need right now’
Education
MA Interior Design, Royal College of Art
BA Illustration, University of Brighton
