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Lottie Stoddart constructs illusionistic containers in which paper and object slip between ontology and play, creating self-contained systems whose deliberate misalignments reveal the porous, often troubling boundaries between narrative, body, memory and myth.

Lottie Stoddart’s practice operates within carefully delimited containers where illusion, collage and material intelligence converge to form precarious narrative systems. Her paintings and dioramas function as staged micro-ecologies, spaces in which paper imitates flesh, ornament mutates into organism, and architecture inherits the logic of anatomy. These works draw on the languages of theatre, specimen display and childhood memory, yet remain resistant to stable interpretation; each composition behaves like a fragment of fiction excavated from an impossible archive. Stoddart’s containers generate their own affective weather, where humour shades into disquiet and recognition slips toward the uncanny, inviting the viewer into a world that is coherent only in the precision of its strangeness.