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Lillian McCredie (b. Michigan, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, photography, printmaking, and assemblage.

Her practice examines how image, power, and public life intersect in contemporary America. Moving between documentary footage and materially intensive studio processes, she traces the residue of political spectacle, militarism, labor, and collective resistance. Working in the field—at protests, parades, campuses, and institutional spaces—she gathers fragments that later reappear transformed through etching, collage, and installation.

Copper plates etched through chemical abrasion, scanned respirators, press patches, industrial scrap, and failed reproductions become material translations of lived events. By foregrounding processes of transfer—laser etching, acid baths, toner failures, fragmentation—she treats reproduction itself as a metaphor for how authority imprints onto bodies and landscapes.

Her video works construct nonlinear assemblages that collapse geography and time: Los Angeles and Washington one week apart, campuses under lockdown, helicopters circling above celebration and unrest. Abrupt cuts, shifting aspect ratios, and layered sound produce dissonant portraits of the present.

Across mediums, material functions as witness—holding the marks of industry, power, and collective resistance.