Lindsey Whittle

Lindsey Whittle, also known by her art identities: Sparklezilla and Future-Lindsey, is a multimedia performance and garment-based artist, textile print designer, art experience facilitator and educator. She uses colorful, transformable objects not only to form shapes, but as a starting point for collaboration. Whittle constantly searches for new ways to bring art out of traditional spaces and into everyday life, and her practice is an ongoing conversation involving her past and present work. This is most seen in her wearable duration projects and textile prints which are visual dialogues about works from her archive. A single piece of Whittle's work has many applications, it can function as a prop, installation, wall-work, sculpture, or be worn on a body. Since 2020, she shifted to focus to teamwork, where collaboration is central and these voices contribute to and inform her practice. For example, she rigorously builds her series “Shape Languages” together with her 25 collaborators, and this exchange acts as a foundation for decision-making and creating cohesive communication within her work.. As a Fluxus artist at heart, she adopts the idea that everything has the potential to be an art object and every person has the capability to create and experience art.