Poppy Litchfield is an artist working across text, drawing, installation, and moving image. Informed by a background in psychology, her work deals with topics of ecology, memory, and systems of production. Psychological perspectives often form the starting point of her work through focus on experiences of ambivalence, control, and the hidden subconscious
litchfield.poppy(at)gmail.com
@poppy_litchfield
EDUCATION
2022-2023 MA Contemorary Art Practise, Royal College of Art, Tutor: Harold Offeh
2021-2022 Graduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art
2017-2019 Practical Diploma, Homeopathy, School of Homeopathy
2016-2017 Introduction to counselling and psychotherapy, Tavistock and Portman
2009-2012 BA (Hons) Psychology, Durham University, 2009-12
EXIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2025 Sweet, Sour, Adazzle, Dim, exhibition, 44AD Artspace, Bath UK
Relax Digital is 10 screening of Soft and Fleshy, RCA, London UK
2024 Soft and fleshy, site specific permanent installation, Chelsea Westminster Hospital, London UK
I’ve Got That Sinking Feeling screening at Effat International Student Film Festival, Jeddah SAU
2023 Let Down, graduate exhibition, Royal College of Art, London UK
An Eye For a Bird screening, Prince Charles Cinema, London UK
Jammy Beggar, Tate Lates Screening, TATE Modern, London UK
2022 Undergraduate show, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
Nexus, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
I’m In It, group exhibition, Safe House 1 & 2, London UK
2021 Solstice, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
2020 Pausa y Refugio, ArteSumapaz, San Bernardo CO
WORKSHOPS & PERFORMANCES
2025 Communal tasting Vanishing Labyrinths of the Isles of Scilly, St Marys UK
Performative dinner Rare Earths in collaboration with Guely Morató Loredo and Sonandes, Delfina Foundation, London UK
Performance Salt of the Earth, Montez Press Radio
Performance Salt of the Earth for Bleet! Presents Lug Hole 006, George Tavern, London UK
2024 Performance Tea For Uncertain Times for Bleet! Presents Lug Hole 003, George Tavern, London UK
2023 Menu development in collaboration with Farah Al Qasimi for exhibition Abort, Retry, Fail, Delfina Foundation
Performance On A Cellular Level for Beyond Surface, Montez Press Radio
Performance Recipe for Uncertain Times Glimpse 001, Staffordshire St Gallery, London UK
2022 Culinary Formulas in collaboration with L. Sasha Gora for Politics of Food: Season 5, Delfina Foundation, London UK
Workshop series held for the new residents of Delfina Foundation on food preserving techniques, London UK
2020 Foraging and tea blending workshop Tea Care with Sarah Waters, Hartington UK
2019 Performative Dinner for Anya Gallaccio’s Motherload, Delfina Foundation, London UK
2018 Performative dinner and workshop, IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv UE
RESIDENCIES & EXPERINCE
2024 CW+ Relax Digital Commission Residency, London UK
2020 Residency, Artesumapaz, Colombia
2020 Production Assistant, Mirabel Pictures, San Fransico USA
2019 Programme & kitchen Intern, Headlands Centre for the Arts, California USA
2019 Residency / Field Guide Collaboration, Salmon Creek Farm, California USA
2016 Assistant, Cooking Sections, The Empire Remains Shop, London
GRANTS & PRIZES
Chelsea + Westminster NHS Trust, CW+ Relax Digital Commission 2023
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Glimpse, MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art
2021 The New Farmer’s Almanac. Volume V Grand Land Plan. Published by Greenhorns
2021 Our Plant Community: A Salmon Creek Farm Collaborative Field Guide. Published by A Magic Mountain Press
2019 “The Kitchen” Politics of Food, edited by Aaron Cezar & Dani Burrows. Published by Sternberg Press