Lydia Halcrow
Bristol
I am an artist, researcher and educator. My work focuses on a visual response to a place, primarily through painting, drawing and print-making, trying to capture its visual motifs, textures, materials
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I make paintings, drawings and prints that are based on walks with a place and using walking as a way to closely observe the materials and processes that give a place its unique identity. All of these tiny marks act as clues telling us how we navigate and exist within a place, the textures of the surfaces underfoot, what features will alter with the weather over time, the traces we leave behind. Coming together the work forms alternative maps of a place, re-mapping the overlooked that hold fragile records of entropy, materials and mark-making, mainly on metal and paper.
www.lydiahalcrow.com
Instagram: @lydiahalcrow
2020/21 Exhibitions
‘Tidal Timespace’ Print Exchange, Ecléctico ArtSpace: Galería Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico, Spring 2021, part of Heather Green’s ‘Tidal Timespace: Imprints & Palimpsests’ Installation
‘Landlinks’ Spring 2021, venues tbc. http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/landlinks/ http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/conversation-with-lydia-halcrow/
Centre of Gravity, Bristol, Space Place Practice Research Group, Soapworks Publication, available at http://spaceplacepractice.com/resources.html and hard copies from the ground floor exhibition space from 3rd Oct - 1st Nov 2020 https://www.centreofgravity.uk/
‘Hello World’, TransCultural Exchange 20th June 2020 (multiple venues online)
‘Happenings’ Walcot Chapel, Autumn 2020
Alumni Exhibition, Bath Schools of Art and Design, 3rd March - 10th March
'Incendiary', Pound Arts, Corsham, 19th March - August 7th
'Art and Environment’, Burton at Bideford Commission Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
2019
“Art and Environment’, Burton at Bideford Artist Commission, Opens 4th December https://www.burtonartgallery.co.uk/burton-at-bideford-announces-emerging-artist-commission/
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, 14th -20th November for events visit www.unaskedpossibility.art
'Loss & Lucidity', Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal, 8th - 18th August
'This Woman's Work', Fringe Arts Bath, 24th May - 9th June
'Re-Imagining Places and Landscapes through Walking Practices and Methodologies', conference panellist, EUGEO 2019 conference, Galway, Ireland, 15th - 18th May
'Incendiary', Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, 5th - 10th Feb
2018
'Mapping Place', Solo Show, Contains Art, Watchet, North Somerset, Solo Show, Aug - Sept
'1000 days in...', Two-person Show, Bath School of Art and Design Gallery, Sion Hill, July
'Hold the Line', Solo Show, Arcade Cardiff, May - June
'Between The Shadows and The Light', The Pound Arts, Corsham, Wiltshire, March - April
2017
'Embodied Cartographies', Fringe Arts Bath, Walcot Chapel Gallery, Walcot Street, Bath, 26th May - 11th June 2017
'Foundlings', Fringe Arts Bath, 8 New Bond Street, Bath, 26th May - 11th June 2017
'Library of Pilgrimages', Space Place Practice, Trowbridge Arts Centre, 6th September - 4th November 2017
'A Sense of Place', National Brain Appeal, The Oxo Gallery, London, 29th September - Oct 1st 2017
Arts in The Alps Doctoral Spring School, practice based research into 'Gestures of here & there: la fabric sensible des lieux' Site specific response to disused industrial site. June 2017
2016
'Walking...Landscape...Memory', Salisbury Arts Centre, Jan 4th - Feb 27th 2016
'Imagined Landscapes', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Feb 6th - 12th June 2016
2015 - 'The Box Project', University of Aberystwyth Art Gallery, March 2015
2014 - Finding Place, Corsham, July 2014, Freud's House, London, March 2014.
2013 - Just Passing Through, Musgrove Gallery, Taunton 2013 - Something of Place, Museum in the Park, Site Festival 2013, Stroud
2012 - Migration, American Museum, Wiltshire 2012 - Museum Box, University West of England, Bristol 2012 - Museum Box Project, Corsham Court, Postgraduate Gallery 2012 - This is the way the world ends, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath 2011 - BV Open Studios Show, BV Studios, Bristol
2011 - Studio 17, Spring Show, Motorcade / Flashparade Gallery, BV Gallery, Bedminster, Bristol
2010 - Masters of Fine Art Show, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University 2010 - Open Studios Group Show, BV Studios, Bedminster, Bristol 2010 - Segue Interim Show, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath
Education:
Ongoing - Practice Based PhD, Fine Art, Bath School of Art
MFA, Bath Spa University, 2010
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