“Compelling, generous and necessary world-building: ‘sustain’ invites people to step into an alternate realm, one where we can share energy and build community across time and space. A beautiful place of radical acceptance which people can engage with on their own terms.”
"sustain", 2024-5
Touring installation, commissioned
by Wild Rumpus and
premiered at Timber Festival 2024, UK
Previous venues include:
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Queer Bloomsbury at Charleston Trust, Sept 2024
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Oct 2024
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York Art Gallery as Part of Aesthetica Art Prize, Sept 2025
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Gallerie Du Nord (Amsterdam), Sept 2025
Currently taking bookings for 2026-27
Listen to discussion, recorded in April 2025, about 'sustain' between curator and author Gemma Rolls-Bentley and Lady Kitt HERE
Welcome to “sustain”, a place to pause.
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What feelings cheer, support & hearten you?
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When you need emotional sustenance do you search for calm, mischief, joy, peace?
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Or maybe it’s all a bit more complicated than that- something in between, woven through or beyond one word descriptions?
Here you are invited to spend time in contemplation & celebration of the unspoken feelings which sustain you.
We are often expected to articulate and solidify our feelings in words. There can also be value, and luscious delight, in experiencing & expressing emotions through making.
“Making both contributes to, & is an ongoing expression of, my emotional sustenance. Through the temporary installation of “sustain” I’m aiming to grow space which can tenderly reveal, and fiercely care for, the role of crafting in nurturing and documenting our emotional lives”
Lady Kitt, 2024
This installation, crafted from fabric, rope & recycled plastics, is described by the artist Lady Kitt as “a folk-art inspired shrine”.
The work includes a variety of small hand woven items incorporating rocks and twigs, which visitors are invited to take away with them, if they wish, as a physical reminder of their time here.
Please click HERE for list of materials used in the work
and how they will be reused after each iteration
Please click HERE for access information including an
audio description of 'sustain' at BALTIC
Currently taking bookings for 2026-26, for more info, & to request a touring pack, please contact Studio Manager, Allison Birt at info.ladykitt@gmail.com, with the heading
"sustain booking enquiry"
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