Libby is a non-binary queer artist based in Liverpool Merseyside, who creates sculptural and painting works, that explore how overlooked seemingly abandoned urban landscapes can represent specific cultural experiences and identities, such as own personal experiences with isolation and exploration of their identity.

Drawing from the public’s familiarity with how abandoned landscapes are often used as a backdrop to popular culture TV series like The Walking Dead and the last of us, Libby invites the viewer to reconsider their own relationship to these real-life spaces that exist within their own environment like Merseyside.

Libby utilises the materials usually found within these environments, materials seen as disposable to draw the viewer into these spaces. The scale of these works draws in the focus and sharpens their senses; the scale makes it more precious and valuable. Creating objects that fluctuate in size, turning anxiety inducing places into small spaces that reduce sensory input, like light and sound, finding comfort in the secure despite it. They use their familiarity to the Japanese language to convey the anxiety and isolation they feel to the viewer, turning away from comfort as the viewer is pushed away from the oil paintings by their lack of understanding of a language vastly different from English this plays similarly to the idea of someone who suffers from depression and anxiety the works are only understood once asked.