about

Liam Yeates’ practice deconstructs and reconstructs perceptions of architectural spaces, creating fictional and non-fictional scenarios that respond to the absurdities found within both the built environment and the natural world. His work investigates how societies navigate the shifting relationship between constructed spaces and surrounding landscapes, focusing on points of transition where definitions of place and purpose become unstable.

Yeates is particularly interested in how public interaction is shaped by these transitional environments—spaces where architecture, movement, and external conditions converge. Through drawing and observation, he explores people’s responses to social situations within these spaces, capturing both their presence and the ephemeral traces they leave behind. His drawings reflect not only the spatial dynamics but also the emotional and psychological residues that linger—gestures, reactions, and unspoken memories embedded in place.

Drawing on principles of psychogeography, including mapping, drifting, and close attention to lived experience, Yeates invites viewers to re-evaluate their position within these fluid settings. His artworks propose alternative viewpoints that challenge fixed narratives of architecture, social structure, and landscape—presenting space as something continuously in flux, open to reinterpretation and reimagining through both collective and individual experience.