Lydia May Hann is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Whitby, North Yorkshire, working with wool, textile industry waste and assorted natural materials to create expressive costumes and sculptures exploring folklore and lost identity. Lydia brings together her upbringing in northern Norway and her Shetland ancestry to create pieces that speak about craft, nature, heritage and home.

’Villsau’ is a body of work produced over the duration of her time as artist in residence at Velferden in South West Norway. This work centres Norwegian wool as an underused but abundant resource and seeks to offer a tactile and sensory relationship to the animal and to the many lives that intertwine around them.

Villsau is supported by Velferden.