LILY

Rumours circulate that Lily isn’t actually real… a gimmick, made up by organisers to lend someLily started her street art journey in concrete canvas 2022 when she came into the festival Hq wanting to get involved, asking if there was anything she could paint on. One of the bollards had been knocked down by a vehicle and only a stump was left an artist assigned to a different bollard decided to paint the stump gold. Lily came into festival HQ wanting to get involved in the festival and asking if there was anything she could paint on… The Golden Nugget was born! Since then she has worked with renound artists like The London Police and Troika and the Southend city jam to develop her street art skills. semblance of charm and humanity to the festival.

Lily came back in 2023 as concrete canvas's youngest artist at only 15 years old! She was completing her GCSEs whilst painting this openreach cabinet depicting a foxed she named 'Mickey' inspired by a fox that was found and rescued from Chelmsford Market earlier that year