We are very pleased to announce Mollie Tilley as the first recipient of a DC micro-grant to support the development of new work. Mollie will present ‘Digital Relics’, a solo exhibition at VOLT in Eastbourne from the 25th of April to the 6th of May. Please join us for the exhibition opening event on Saturday 25th of April, 2-4pm.

Mollie Tilley (b. 2001) is an Artist exploring mythical ethnography and Fictioning through mythopoesis and mythotechnesis. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2023 with Class Honours, joined Conditions Digital-Lab (2023–24), undertook A Position on Retreat (2025), and works with traditional Romani Traveller practices, inorganic memory and bootstrap witchery.

‘Digital Relics’ investigates my underrepresented community and its transformative rites and rituals through a fabulated ‘future archaeologist’ Avatar. The archaeologist coaxes out digital relics using several divination tools: sound, dance, doodle-bugging, and tasseography, all things my grandmother has taught me. Once he has sourced his excavation site, he begins to dig, but what he uncovers are entangled, fated timelines and looping histories that have been seeking him lifetime after lifetime.

This body of work reflects on cycles, rebirth, and concurrent timelines, presenting history and memory as continuous processes that do not have a definitive end.

In a sense, each project is a rebirth of the one before it, returning in a new body.

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