Tilly Glancy (1999) was born in London and studied Sculpture and Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art.
My work takes the form of large textiles and is inspired by protest banners. They are intended to convey vitality and are a celebration of time and place.
The series Nomadic Sundial weaves together fact and fiction, it lives and feeds on myths, heraldry and reality. Marched around disparate places, it is intended to be used as a sundial. By physically stepping onto the textile it demands the viewer takes a critical position within the material world by becoming the fulcrum in the equation - their shadow the tool for telling time.
As an artist the process is equally important as the final product. In a world that feels so sped up I have taken solace in a practice rooted in folk tradition. A stitching together of a multitude of fabrics, each block tells a story about a moment in time.
I am celebrating the special nature of time and place, the point at which all forces are gathered in a never repeated way. The moment at which we are all truly immersed in our individual present.
