Lydia Marshall (b. 2002) is a Manchester based artist. She is a studio member at Paradise works - recently awarded with the 2025-26 Haworth Trust Scholarship and previously with the Graduate prize of Paradise Works studio bursary 2024-25 from Manchester School of Art. 

Marshall works within a process led sculptural/installation based practice. Often centred around function, process, systems and material perceptibility. Creating bodies of work that react to these systems and processes that they are embedded in. Working with commonly found and recognisable materials she attempts to interrogate our usual familiarisation of objects/material evoking knowledge, fondness or memory affiliated with them in order to provoke questioning of ideas surrounding them in new contexts.

For example; concrete, cassette tapes, a boat, morse code, she is able to induce a tangibility into a gallery space and create perceptibility through materials. She attempts to work within the ‘truth’ of materials. Everything seen is a true product of its process. The making process is highly responsive and intuitive at the material stage, but key research lies in materials part of larger industrial and or labour based contexts, thinking about labour and labour as art-making.