LYDIA REEVES ARTIST
Female Body Casting Artist | Body Diversity & Acceptance
Brighton, UK
Whether you’re here to celebrate, to heal, or to capture a moment in time…my studio offers a supportive space for open, honest conversations about our bodies and the stories they hold. It’s about shifting perspective, and seeing yourself as a piece of art.
This is where self-acceptance and art meet!
This isn’t just art, it’s therapy…
As a young girl, I struggled deeply with my body, and with my relationship to my vulva in particular. Influences from online spaces, pornography, and the marketing of procedures such as labiaplasty left me feeling broken. I spiralled into shame, sadness, and hopelessness, believing that my body was somehow wrong.
My heart breaks for anyone who has ever looked at themselves with hate, doubt, or despair. Because I know how heavy and isolating that pain can feel.
The work I do now grew out of those experiences. It’s about creating a space where we can strip back the shame, sit with honesty, and begin to see ourselves differently.
For some, this is art. For others, it’s healing. For many, it’s both.
For me personally, it became about more than the art itself. It became a way of rewriting the story I had been told, and told myself, about my body for all those years.
This is why I now create this work. Every casting session is a chance to offer that same perspective-shift to someone else. The process of being cast can be as therapeutic as owning the final piece: taking this time for yourself, sharing your story, being witnessed, and then seeing your own body reflected back to you in a way that is permanent, undeniable, and beautiful.
Your cast could mark a personal milestone, or a moment of acceptance. It could also become a deeply healing experience, one where any hidden shame is stripped away, and self-compassion is allowed to grow.
This is why I truly believe my casting sessions are so much more than a piece of art.
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'My Vulva & I' - Vulva Diversity Book
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New Book & Exhibition - launching 2026!
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We’re surrounded by unrealistic ideas and images of what’s ‘normal’…
Let’s break those stereotypes and celebrate every body, every shape, and every story.
“The details I once thought of as ‘flaws’ have become parts of my body I now admire…”
Body casting changed how I saw my body … transforming shame and self-criticism into respecting my body as art. The details I once thought of as ‘flaws’ have become parts of my body I now admire, captured beautifully and permanently in art form. This shift inspired me to share the experience with others.
Today, I run my body casting practice in Brighton. I celebrate diversity, vulnerability, and acceptance. I work with women and people with vulvas, offering a supportive space where they can be seen, held, and reflected back to themselves within art.
Each cast holds its own individual meaning: a story of change, of celebration, of healing, of transition, or of simply being.
My work has grown into more than a studio, it’s become a movement towards body neutrality, self-acceptance, and healing. Alongside running sessions, I create DIY Casting Kits, host workshops & Life Drawing classes, work with some big brands, and am also currently working on a new book and exhibition that celebrates body diversity and the powerful stories each body holds.
