Multidisciplinary Artist | Lolly Adams

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'Lard Fountain (performance ii)' 2024

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Miss HerNia & Co performing 'Tasty' at Eastbourne Theatres 2023

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Grandad's Tooth, work in progress animation

PV Thursday 29th May 6-8:30pm. Sickly Sweet Revenge. Curated by @k_e_e_k and @mirand_art aka @srokapissarides

Hypha Gallery Marble Arch
15 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7AS 30 May – 20 Jun 2025
Opening night: Thurs 29 May, 6 – 9pm

Sroka Pissarides and Hypha Studios present the group exhibition Sickly Sweet Revenge.

Artists
Lolly Adams @lollyadams
Delia Detritus @delia.detritus
Char Eve @activated.char.scroll
Zara Truss Giles @ztgee
Ms Sharon Le Grand @mssharonlegrand
Ornagh @ornaghworld
Miranda Pissarides @mirand_art
Kika Sroka-Miller @k_e_e_k
with
Marie-Claire Amuah @marieclaireamuah
Victoria Brooks @queermistresswifehuman
Kim Walker @kimawalker_

A selection of artists’ prints will be for sale with proceeds going to @weexistorg, @mermaidsgender and @hyphastudios

PV Thursday 29th May 6-8:30pm. Sickly Sweet Revenge. Curated by @k_e_e_k and @mirand_art aka @srokapissarides

Hypha Gallery Marble Arch
15 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7AS 30 May – 20 Jun 2025
Opening night: Thurs 29 May, 6 – 9pm

Sroka Pissarides and Hypha Studios present the group exhibition Sickly Sweet Revenge.

Artists
Lolly Adams @lollyadams
Delia Detritus @delia.detritus
Char Eve @activated.char.scroll
Zara Truss Giles @ztgee
Ms Sharon Le Grand @mssharonlegrand
Ornagh @ornaghworld
Miranda Pissarides @mirand_art
Kika Sroka-Miller @k_e_e_k
with
Marie-Claire Amuah @marieclaireamuah
Victoria Brooks @queermistresswifehuman
Kim Walker @kimawalker_

A selection of artists’ prints will be for sale with proceeds going to @weexistorg, @mermaidsgender and @hyphastudios

I was part of a podcast called “Classed Acts” where I talk about having a job at 13, the smoke and mirrors of the art world and middle class people assimilating your culture while gatekeeping opportunities for their mates. So great to speak with @jamie_holman_studio - really enjoyed getting to know him and his work - check it out ✨

Dr Sarah Scarsbrook and Dr Dani Child talk with invited guests about life as a creative/educator coming from working class origins. It’s available on Spotify - link in bio 🙌🏼

We are joined by performance artist and educator Lolly Adams @lollyadams , and Fine Art course leader and co-founder of Uncultured Creatives @uncultured_creatives Jamie Holman @jamie_holman_studio on working harder and working longer to make it, or just keep making, as a visual artist. We discuss putting art making on hold to earn a living, establishing secure work, and Arts Council England’s class-driven board and funding platforms. The middle-class colonisation of working-class spaces, and a middle-class gaze upon working class culture that is either assimilated, mocked, or deemed improvable are explored.

Presenters: Dr Sarah Scarsbrook & Dr Dani Child
Guests: Lolly Adams & Jamie Holman
Editor: Allan Goodey
Music: BKTMM by I am Fya⁠ @iamfyamusic

📸
- Here’s 21 year old me installing my degree show. Pic by @hannah.devereux
- snippet from the podcast
- “Act One” (2025) Premiums @royalacademyarts by me
- last two pieces are by @jamie_holman_studio

I was part of a podcast called “Classed Acts” where I talk about having a job at 13, the smoke and mirrors of the art world and middle class people assimilating your culture while gatekeeping opportunities for their mates. So great to speak with @jamie_holman_studio - really enjoyed getting to know him and his work - check it out ✨

Dr Sarah Scarsbrook and Dr Dani Child talk with invited guests about life as a creative/educator coming from working class origins. It’s available on Spotify - link in bio 🙌🏼

We are joined by performance artist and educator Lolly Adams @lollyadams , and Fine Art course leader and co-founder of Uncultured Creatives @uncultured_creatives Jamie Holman @jamie_holman_studio on working harder and working longer to make it, or just keep making, as a visual artist. We discuss putting art making on hold to earn a living, establishing secure work, and Arts Council England’s class-driven board and funding platforms. The middle-class colonisation of working-class spaces, and a middle-class gaze upon working class culture that is either assimilated, mocked, or deemed improvable are explored.

Presenters: Dr Sarah Scarsbrook & Dr Dani Child
Guests: Lolly Adams & Jamie Holman
Editor: Allan Goodey
Music: BKTMM by I am Fya⁠ @iamfyamusic

📸
- Here’s 21 year old me installing my degree show. Pic by @hannah.devereux
- snippet from the podcast
- “Act One” (2025) Premiums @royalacademyarts by me
- last two pieces are by @jamie_holman_studio

Suitcase back & @misshernia is safe and sound - thank you everyone for your help! There are good people out there! The person saw my note on a tree! 🥹🥹🥹 Sorry for worrying you, really appreciate your concerns 💝 xxx performance incoming lol

Suitcase back & @misshernia is safe and sound - thank you everyone for your help! There are good people out there! The person saw my note on a tree! 🥹🥹🥹 Sorry for worrying you, really appreciate your concerns 💝 xxx performance incoming lol

Thank you to all who came along to the @misshernia alter ego and costume making workshop @vamuseum >> we had a right laugh making characters, using transfer paint to collage, create masks for protests and lucky brooches with the body of HerNie - all in 2 hours! xx Also thank you to the always supportive @lambdog1066 for assisting me. This was one of my first outings after a 3 week knock out flu ✨🙏🏼 so glad to be recovering ❤️‍🩹

Thanks to Adam Alston for the opportunity and continued curiosity and encouragement in my practice.

‘Decadent Doubles: Costume-making workshop with Miss HerNia’, Staging Decadence @ V&A Performance Festival, 27 April 2025. Photos: Emma Jones @emwajones

Thank you to all who came along to the @misshernia alter ego and costume making workshop @vamuseum >> we had a right laugh making characters, using transfer paint to collage, create masks for protests and lucky brooches with the body of HerNie - all in 2 hours! xx Also thank you to the always supportive @lambdog1066 for assisting me. This was one of my first outings after a 3 week knock out flu ✨🙏🏼 so glad to be recovering ❤️‍🩹

Thanks to Adam Alston for the opportunity and continued curiosity and encouragement in my practice.

‘Decadent Doubles: Costume-making workshop with Miss HerNia’, Staging Decadence @ V&A Performance Festival, 27 April 2025. Photos: Emma Jones @emwajones

My film “Pick Me” has been selected for an evening of shorts @riocinema > this Thursday 1st May.

GRANNY LUDSKI’S WILD GARDENING
THURSDAY, 01 MAY 7-11 PM, RIO CINEMA

Granny is back!!!!
The Rio Cinema founder presents a night of art films, live music and queer performance, to celebrate Spring’s renewing desires and disasters, get some tips from the ecosex manifesto, and listen in the deep of our awakening bodies.
Selected films will show the connection between queer plants and queer people, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and love to incorporate the natural world.

Film artists: Zheng Bo (Pteridophilia), Valentin Ranger, Lolly Adams, Autojektor, Edd Carr, Elisabetta Antonucci and more artists to come.

PROGRAMME:

7-8 PM PRE-SHOW (Foyer, Circle, Ludski Bar)
Special performance by Andrew Woodyatt (Pink Palace), dedicated to the cult documentary GREY GARDENS, and sound performance by Rosa (Dream Emulator). Inspired by the practices of worm grunting, a folk method for drawing worms out from the soil to be captured, we will call into the soil using bass frequencies, both tilling and calling the soil forth. Through concrete and lead piping, a 45hz song will be heard by the depths.

8-11 PM SHOW (Screen1)
Art Film Screenings and Live Performances.

For more information, please write to grannyludski@gmail.com
VISIT THE RIO WEBSITE FOR TICKETS

@danperry_x
@am_i_margaret
@aje.inc
@pinkpalacequeerfilmclub
@conrad__armstrong
@kurtislincoln
@mustkika
@nela_shine
@rosa.pms
@saparfitt
@shemfillmore
@simnedonadni
@whyareyoubeingweirdwithme
@valentinranger
@lollyadams
@misshernia
@autojektorx
@_eddcarr_

Pick Me by Lolly Adams
Animator: @markusxfiedler
Sound & Music: Dominic Kennedy
Vocals: @tairayne

My film “Pick Me” has been selected for an evening of shorts @riocinema > this Thursday 1st May.

GRANNY LUDSKI’S WILD GARDENING
THURSDAY, 01 MAY 7-11 PM, RIO CINEMA

Granny is back!!!!
The Rio Cinema founder presents a night of art films, live music and queer performance, to celebrate Spring’s renewing desires and disasters, get some tips from the ecosex manifesto, and listen in the deep of our awakening bodies.
Selected films will show the connection between queer plants and queer people, pushing the boundaries of sexuality and love to incorporate the natural world.

Film artists: Zheng Bo (Pteridophilia), Valentin Ranger, Lolly Adams, Autojektor, Edd Carr, Elisabetta Antonucci and more artists to come.

PROGRAMME:

7-8 PM PRE-SHOW (Foyer, Circle, Ludski Bar)
Special performance by Andrew Woodyatt (Pink Palace), dedicated to the cult documentary GREY GARDENS, and sound performance by Rosa (Dream Emulator). Inspired by the practices of worm grunting, a folk method for drawing worms out from the soil to be captured, we will call into the soil using bass frequencies, both tilling and calling the soil forth. Through concrete and lead piping, a 45hz song will be heard by the depths.

8-11 PM SHOW (Screen1)
Art Film Screenings and Live Performances.

For more information, please write to grannyludski@gmail.com
VISIT THE RIO WEBSITE FOR TICKETS

@danperry_x
@am_i_margaret
@aje.inc
@pinkpalacequeerfilmclub
@conrad__armstrong
@kurtislincoln
@mustkika
@nela_shine
@rosa.pms
@saparfitt
@shemfillmore
@simnedonadni
@whyareyoubeingweirdwithme
@valentinranger
@lollyadams
@misshernia
@autojektorx
@_eddcarr_

Pick Me by Lolly Adams
Animator: @markusxfiedler
Sound & Music: Dominic Kennedy
Vocals: @tairayne

@underworld.uk・・・ UNDERWORLD 003 IS ALMOST UPON US! Get ready to shake some IKKII STIKKII arsssse for the launch party on May 1st at Plantroom in Hackney Wick 💋

Featuring DJ sets and performances from @dan.na.reyes @gay_rage_ @hollywarcup @perverse.cowboy @trashedbaby @lirabowels @cultofshane @mahsasalali

Ticket link in bio! 😼

@underworld.uk・・・ UNDERWORLD 003 IS ALMOST UPON US! Get ready to shake some IKKII STIKKII arsssse for the launch party on May 1st at Plantroom in Hackney Wick 💋

Featuring DJ sets and performances from @dan.na.reyes @gay_rage_ @hollywarcup @perverse.cowboy @trashedbaby @lirabowels @cultofshane @mahsasalali

Ticket link in bio! 😼

27/04/25 2-4:30pm @vamuseum in the Art Studio I’m running a workshop as part of the Performance Festival. Link in bio - sign up on the day ✨

EXQUIZIT CREECHAHZ: Costume making workshop with Miss HerNia plus complimentary tea party / performance ritual afterwards! 👹

We’ll develop characters to draw inspiration from to create masks using transfer dyeing techniques and brooches with latex elements and frills. 🧁

This workshop is one of two organised by the Staging Decadence project for the Performance Festival, alongside a zine-making workshop led by E.M. Parry @e_m_parry in the Art Studio at 10:30 – 13:00.

Free and open to all. xx

Revenge Prawn 🦐 🥗
📸 @poppyjenniifer

27/04/25 2-4:30pm @vamuseum in the Art Studio I’m running a workshop as part of the Performance Festival. Link in bio - sign up on the day ✨

EXQUIZIT CREECHAHZ: Costume making workshop with Miss HerNia plus complimentary tea party / performance ritual afterwards! 👹

We’ll develop characters to draw inspiration from to create masks using transfer dyeing techniques and brooches with latex elements and frills. 🧁

This workshop is one of two organised by the Staging Decadence project for the Performance Festival, alongside a zine-making workshop led by E.M. Parry @e_m_parry in the Art Studio at 10:30 – 13:00.

Free and open to all. xx

Revenge Prawn 🦐 🥗
📸 @poppyjenniifer

@misshernia is mentioned in an academic book! ‘Staging Decadence: Contemporary Theatre and the Ends of Capitalism’(2023) written by Adam Alston published by @bloomsburypublishing !!!

“Staging Decadence convincingly illustrates how, amid the frenzy, stagnation, and relentless productivism of present-day capitalism, artists and performers take pleasure in the ruin and waste and, far from escaping the material conditions of the modern world, imagine their way to alternatives. Alston vividly demonstrates how decadence is embodied—exuberantly, lavishly, grotesquely, wastefully, weirdly, queerly — on the stage, in live performance, and in the work of a kaleidoscopic array of artists.” Robert Stilling

I’m touched to grace the pages among these legends including; @paulmccarthyyy @ronathey_4 @rosewoodperforms @jaamil_means_beauty @lucy_muck @mri_berserker @acteursgroep_wunderbaum @oozing_gloop @juliabardsley

If you’re studying or working in an educational institution- highly recommended requesting this book to be in the library <3

Very chuffed to share that it’s been added to the @royalacademyschools library and student archive.

@misshernia is mentioned in an academic book! ‘Staging Decadence: Contemporary Theatre and the Ends of Capitalism’(2023) written by Adam Alston published by @bloomsburypublishing !!!

“Staging Decadence convincingly illustrates how, amid the frenzy, stagnation, and relentless productivism of present-day capitalism, artists and performers take pleasure in the ruin and waste and, far from escaping the material conditions of the modern world, imagine their way to alternatives. Alston vividly demonstrates how decadence is embodied—exuberantly, lavishly, grotesquely, wastefully, weirdly, queerly — on the stage, in live performance, and in the work of a kaleidoscopic array of artists.” Robert Stilling

I’m touched to grace the pages among these legends including; @paulmccarthyyy @ronathey_4 @rosewoodperforms @jaamil_means_beauty @lucy_muck @mri_berserker @acteursgroep_wunderbaum @oozing_gloop @juliabardsley

If you’re studying or working in an educational institution- highly recommended requesting this book to be in the library <3

Very chuffed to share that it’s been added to the @royalacademyschools library and student archive.

Here’s @misshernia sculpting lard in my studio @royalacademyschools for the @royalacademyarts magazine winter edition. (Link in bio) There is a little interview in there if you’d like to read about me punching butter in cling film like a ball sack 🫶🏼✨ kisses 💋

Plus: Inside the Mind of Laurie Anderson, Hon RA; Mary Beard and Tomiwa Owolade debate the question ‘Should art ever be destroyed?’; James Imam on the uses of Renaissance art in contemporary Florentine politics; second-year students from the Royal Academy Schools reveal materials important to their practices, and William Tucker RA shares his research into the Italian life model who inspired Matisse and Rodin.

Here’s @misshernia sculpting lard in my studio @royalacademyschools for the @royalacademyarts magazine winter edition. (Link in bio) There is a little interview in there if you’d like to read about me punching butter in cling film like a ball sack 🫶🏼✨ kisses 💋

Plus: Inside the Mind of Laurie Anderson, Hon RA; Mary Beard and Tomiwa Owolade debate the question ‘Should art ever be destroyed?’; James Imam on the uses of Renaissance art in contemporary Florentine politics; second-year students from the Royal Academy Schools reveal materials important to their practices, and William Tucker RA shares his research into the Italian life model who inspired Matisse and Rodin.

Thanks for having me @englishgrass GRASS Magazine Issue 5: The Milestone 🌿

Out Now! Support working class creatives; journalism, literature, art, style, photography.

Featuring work by Am Ubhi, Elif Yilmazturk, Eva Dixon, Ezra Miles, Gavin Watson, Jim Gibson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Lolly Adams, Lucy Waters, Megan Georgia Smith, Steve Burden, Theo Papandreopoulos, and Tommy Sissons.

@theburdenof.art
@elifyilmazturk
@evadixon.png
@megangeorgiasmith
@ezramilespoet
@_gavin_watson
@waters_artlucy
@jimbobilicious
@theo_papandr
amesubhi
@tommyfredsissons

Editor @tommyfredsissons
Graphic designer @jakebuck
Sound by: archie_presley_audio

Thanks for having me @englishgrass GRASS Magazine Issue 5: The Milestone 🌿

Out Now! Support working class creatives; journalism, literature, art, style, photography.

Featuring work by Am Ubhi, Elif Yilmazturk, Eva Dixon, Ezra Miles, Gavin Watson, Jim Gibson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Lolly Adams, Lucy Waters, Megan Georgia Smith, Steve Burden, Theo Papandreopoulos, and Tommy Sissons.

@theburdenof.art
@elifyilmazturk
@evadixon.png
@megangeorgiasmith
@ezramilespoet
@_gavin_watson
@waters_artlucy
@jimbobilicious
@theo_papandr
amesubhi
@tommyfredsissons

Editor @tommyfredsissons
Graphic designer @jakebuck
Sound by: archie_presley_audio

Leigh Bowery opening last night @tate was so dreamy xxx very gorgeous to bump into so many people I’ve known over the years xxx what an absolute icon and inspiration he has been for us🌹🙇🏻‍♀️

Leigh Bowery opening last night @tate was so dreamy xxx very gorgeous to bump into so many people I’ve known over the years xxx what an absolute icon and inspiration he has been for us🌹🙇🏻‍♀️

TONIGHT 21/02/25 @ormsideprojects @resonancefm fundraiser xx

TONIGHT 21/02/25 @ormsideprojects @resonancefm fundraiser xx

・・・
ORMSIDE PROJECTS & RESONANCE
Curated by Kinn @kinn_dread

Kinn (live)
Meat Strap (live)
Miss HerNia & Co.
Smith Parkman
TFT (live)

Beatrice Vorster & Yasmin Vardi (film screening)

DJs
Gus Cantor
The Crying Room

More tba…

Friday, 21st February

Tickets on sale now via @dicefm - link in bio
£11 (early bird)
£13
£15 OTD

Designed by @straight.ola
35mm by Kinn
Dev & Scan by @katrinaastamatopoulos

Miss HerNia images by @remainsofd

・・・
ORMSIDE PROJECTS & RESONANCE
Curated by Kinn @kinn_dread

Kinn (live)
Meat Strap (live)
Miss HerNia & Co.
Smith Parkman
TFT (live)

Beatrice Vorster & Yasmin Vardi (film screening)

DJs
Gus Cantor
The Crying Room

More tba…

Friday, 21st February

Tickets on sale now via @dicefm - link in bio
£11 (early bird)
£13
£15 OTD

Designed by @straight.ola
35mm by Kinn
Dev & Scan by @katrinaastamatopoulos

Miss HerNia images by @remainsofd

🥹 appreciate you all so much! xxx 😘

🥹 appreciate you all so much! xxx 😘

Thanks for the support you wonderful people! Loved bringing together so many epic ones who have shaped me over the years, felt so excited to share this new work with you,🌹🥲 the show is open until 16th Feb 2025. I’ll be there Tues-Thurs xx 💋✨🫶🏼

Thanks for the support you wonderful people! Loved bringing together so many epic ones who have shaped me over the years, felt so excited to share this new work with you,🌹🥲 the show is open until 16th Feb 2025. I’ll be there Tues-Thurs xx 💋✨🫶🏼

fallen angel @lambdog1066 nye 2024 💘

fallen angel @lambdog1066 nye 2024 💘

Nanny and breathing Jesus, Dec 2024 ✨

Nanny and breathing Jesus, Dec 2024 ✨

Prom dates and mates 🐀 👑 ✨

Prom dates and mates 🐀 👑 ✨

Class of 2026 @royalacademyschools prom 2024 ✨

📸 @rahrahhima

Class of 2026 @royalacademyschools prom 2024 ✨

📸 @rahrahhima

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday 16th January 6-9pm > RSVP in link in my bio > halfway through my time at the RA > Premiums #1: @royalacademyschools > I will be in an exhibition in the Weston Studio Gallery with @mayajcampbell and @dwaynecoleman in the centre of the Royal Academy - message me directly if you can make it as your name will need to be on the list ✨ Really appreciate it if you can make it and we can celebrate each other and another new mad year ahead being brilliant dickheads 💩✨🎉

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday 16th January 6-9pm > RSVP in link in my bio > halfway through my time at the RA > Premiums #1: @royalacademyschools > I will be in an exhibition in the Weston Studio Gallery with @mayajcampbell and @dwaynecoleman in the centre of the Royal Academy - message me directly if you can make it as your name will need to be on the list ✨ Really appreciate it if you can make it and we can celebrate each other and another new mad year ahead being brilliant dickheads 💩✨🎉

SAVE THE DATE 🧿 December 7th, 5pm - 1a🌚CHEMIST WINTER HAPPENING: A night of performances, art raffle, live music dj sets, cocktails and home-made food to mark our (almost) 2 years of activity and to help us raise funds for upcoming projects. Thanks to all the amazing artists and collaborators who are contributing to this event, we couldn’t make it without you 💜
Doors open at 5
5:30- 7:30 performances With @lollyadams, @williamjoys, @walshbernard, @dinodesica
8 Art Raffle // a chance to win original artwork contributed by the amazing artrists who’ve collaborated with us // hosted by @dinodesica
9 Live Music // @bad_sip will play love songs for the roly-poly cohort
10-1 Dj Sets with @katieshannon23 @benjaminwhateley @denglord

Link in bio for tickets, which are 10£ including a drink.
Tickets for the art raffle for 5£, you can buy on the day or through the PayPal link - in case you can’t make it and want a chance to win amazing art 🌪

Design by @oliverlong_
Special thanks to @gray_carmen

SAVE THE DATE 🧿 December 7th, 5pm - 1a🌚CHEMIST WINTER HAPPENING: A night of performances, art raffle, live music dj sets, cocktails and home-made food to mark our (almost) 2 years of activity and to help us raise funds for upcoming projects. Thanks to all the amazing artists and collaborators who are contributing to this event, we couldn’t make it without you 💜
Doors open at 5
5:30- 7:30 performances With @lollyadams, @williamjoys, @walshbernard, @dinodesica
8 Art Raffle // a chance to win original artwork contributed by the amazing artrists who’ve collaborated with us // hosted by @dinodesica
9 Live Music // @bad_sip will play love songs for the roly-poly cohort
10-1 Dj Sets with @katieshannon23 @benjaminwhateley @denglord

Link in bio for tickets, which are 10£ including a drink.
Tickets for the art raffle for 5£, you can buy on the day or through the PayPal link - in case you can’t make it and want a chance to win amazing art 🌪

Design by @oliverlong_
Special thanks to @gray_carmen

Cheeky knee x 📸 @nessoono

Cheeky knee x 📸 @nessoono

Install shots from “Insufferably Sweet” open until 09/11/24 at Sadie Coles HQ shop on Kingly Street @sadiecoleshq

All works by class of 2026 @royalacademyschools

Install shots from “Insufferably Sweet” open until 09/11/24 at Sadie Coles HQ shop on Kingly Street @sadiecoleshq

All works by class of 2026 @royalacademyschools

Currently on display in “Insufferably Sweet” @sadiecoleshq shop space - until this Saturday 9th November. (Thanks to peeps who came to the opening 🐣)

Lolly Adams
Gargoyle, 2024
Silk satin, formed plastic, metal chain with diamantés
38 cm x 90 cm x 16cm

Currently on display in “Insufferably Sweet” @sadiecoleshq shop space - until this Saturday 9th November. (Thanks to peeps who came to the opening 🐣)

Lolly Adams
Gargoyle, 2024
Silk satin, formed plastic, metal chain with diamantés
38 cm x 90 cm x 16cm

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