Lilly Creightmore is a self taught visual artist based between London and Berlin. She has a deeply intuitive approach to her work and shares a dreamlike and intimate perspective on her world, the people and places she crosses paths with. Not limited to documenting live music, she has a background in fashion having worked as a model for five years from the age of 16, as an assistant designer and designed and ran her own hat brand. She's also worked in TV, film and travels often for family and work. Her subjects are from a broad demographic and she is never afraid to take on new and challenging projects and commissions.Honing her craft as a music photographer and filmmaker focusing on the international DIY scenes in the UK, Europe and the USA for the past 20 years, as well as the psychedelic resurgence for her debut feature documentary Trip, which premiered at several International film festivals from 2022-24. Lilly was also nominated for the prestigious Abbey Road Music Photography Awards in 2025, for her ongoing project on the LGTBQ+ community in Medellin, Colombia.
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AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS
2025
Abbey Road Music Photography Awards 2025 nominee, with ongoing exhibitions at the infamous recording studios, The Royal Albert Hall and Outernet London2022-2024
Trip Documentary was selected by Doc ‘N Roll Film Festival for a nationwide UK premiere tour Oct/Nov 2022 followed by international premiere screenings at Musical Ecran Festival, , Indie Lisboa, Athens International Film Festival, Sound Watch Berlin, Rokumentti Rock Film Festival, Loop Festival, Puglia2022
'Aerium' a video installation Ridley Road Market Bar2015-20
TRIP THE LIGHT A touring exhibition of photo, film, light and music.Showcasing work from a fateful crowd of psychotropically inclined artists.Exhibitions and screenings of this ongoing project have included a one night DIY group art show by Antonio Curcetti, Lilly Creightmore and Julian Hand 'Trip the Light' where stills and moving image adorned the walls of a Hackney Wick warehouse, soundtracked by live music from Demian Castellanos and Tomaga. Slideshows at music festivals Synasthesie in Berlin and at La Cigale for Paris Psych Fest and a test screening short cut of TRIP at the 3rd annual Desert Daze Festival, held at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Institute of Mental Physics in Joshua Tree, California.