Lindsay Hickling (b.1997) is an Australian artist living and working on Gadigal land within Eora Country (Sydney,NSW). Her interdisciplinary practice ranges from conceptual photography to mirror works and interactive installation. 

Investigating and reflecting on her own lived experience with dissociation (where the physical world isn't real or that you aren't real.) and derealisation (that you're seeing your thoughts, feelings, or body or parts of your body from the outside.), Lindsay creates work that seeks to both visualise this as self portrait and activate the space between the art and viewer - like the derealisation phenomenon.

By activating this space with ultra sonic sensors that interact with the audience, Lindsays work generates a reaction from the audience and challenges the more traditional active/passive relationship between viewer and work. 

Combining mirrors, mark making and motion sensing interactive engineering, her works draw on ideas from phenomenology (that meaning and value is the lived experience of human beings)  and existentialism.

Using the reflection of herself to create marks on mirrored surfaces, the work then becomes a portrait of the artist at the same time as a reflection of the viewer. This dual process of self reflection and interaction with the viewer, creates visual discourse between the two - allowing the audience to share in the artists experience.