Month: September 2025

Lulu Weide won Hugo Barclay’s Choice Award in Jackson’s Art Prize this year with her work Never Been to Stone Henge. In this interview, she discusses finding inspiration in Swedish cliffs, the joy of working large, and allowing her work be rough around the edges. Above image: Lulu Weide in her London-based studio     Josephine: Could you tell us about your artistic background? Lulu: Something that I will always be grateful for is that I have never been discouraged from pursuing art by my family. Sure – I’ve been warned about the hardships of working as an artist, and witnessed first hand the norm of juggling multiple jobs in the creative world – but that conversation has always ended in encouragement to find a way to keep going, rather than a push towards a career more ‘practical’. My family are very creative; having a dad who runs his own Mod Menswear brand and a mum who breathes creativity, working as a Print Lecturer at London College of Fashion, I have grown up with a real sense of appreciating colour, fabric, print, and pattern. It sounds cliché, but I’d also say being born in London, raised in South East London, …

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