Gilded Lilies
Gilded Lilies
Gilded Lilies was shot across London in two weeks, during a heatwave in April 2025. The work gathers friends and collaborators of Steph – artists and meaning-makers in their fields – wearing pieces of jewellery that matter to them. Tender, spontaneous, mad, the images converge with transcribed conversations from the shoots, as well as two essays by the writer Kinza Shenn.
A rumination on the objects we adorn ourselves with, and the life, death and infinities they contain.
Featuring Kinza Shenn, Misty Blegvad, Tosia Leniarska, Ryan Skelton, Tom Rapley, Steph Wilson, Tim Noble, Laura Little, Michael James Fox, Harley Weir, Elsa Rouy, Thomas Cohen, Scarlett Carlos Clark, Hayett Belarbi McCarthy, Paulina Mytych, George Rouy, Alla Little, Kingsley Ifill, Charles Jeffrey, Nick Offord, Yasmin El Yassini.
First edition of 750
Book Designed by Ghazaal Vojdani
Printed by Grafiche Veneziane in Venice, Italy