Lydia Halcrow
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
Solo Exhibitions
‘This Earth Holds Our Stories’, 11th April - 5th May 2024, London
‘Taking Time’, May 2022, Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy
‘matter maps’, October 9th - 21st 2021, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath
'Mapping Place', Aug-Sept 2019, Contains Art, Watchet, Somerset
'Hold the Line', May – 2018, Arcade Cardiff
Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 - 25
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’, Material Project Space, Ellenville, NY, July 2025,
‘The Between Spaces’, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury (two-person), June - Jul 2025
‘From Hand to Eye’, John Ruskin 7th Prize Exhibition, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, Jan – Feb 2025
‘Ground-Up’, Ground Work Gallery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Oct – Dec 2024
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’, A.P.T Gallery, Deptford, London, October 2024
‘What Stories Make Worlds’, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, July 2024 – Feb 2025
‘In The Corner of My Eye’, Fresh Salad Collective, Koppel Project, Chalk Farm, London, April 19th - 23rd
‘The Scale of Water’, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, 17th April - 10th May 2024
‘New Platform Arts - Clyde & Co. Art Prize’ shortlisted artist, Clyde & Co, London, Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Irving Gallery, Oxford, 2nd March - 5th April 2024
‘Derelict, art in the age of decline’, Safehouse, Peckham, London, 24th - 26th Nov 2023
‘Ground’, Messums Wiltshire, May 7th - 5th June 2022
‘Cloud Sediments’, Hyphen Lab, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Rd, London, March 9 - 13th 2022
‘Carbon-Borders-Voices’, interdisciplinary exhibition online, physical to follow, January 2022
‘Tidal Timespace’, Ecléctico ArtSpace: Galería Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, January 2022, now part of University of Arizona & UWE permanent collections
‘Climate Action & Visual Culture’, University of Huddersfield, July 2021
‘Groundworks’, Three Storeys Gallery, Nailsworth, June 17 - 27th 2021
Selected Earlier Exhibitions
Centre of Gravity, Bristol, Space Place Practice, Soapworks, Bristol, 3rd Oct - 1st Nov 2020
'Art & Environment’, Burton at Bideford Artist Commission, permanent collection, Dec 2019 - Oct 20
'Loss & Lucidity', Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2019
'Between The Shadows and The Light', The Pound Arts, Corsham, Wiltshire, March – April 2018
'Embodied Cartographies', Fringe Arts Bath, Walcot Chapel Gallery, Bath, May – June 2017
'Gestures of here & there’, Le Magasin - Centre national d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, June 2016
'Imagined Landscapes', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Feb - June 2016
'Walking...Landscape...Memory', Salisbury Arts Centre, Jan-Feb 2016
Education:
Practice Based PhD, Fine Art, Bath School of Art, 2022
MFA, Bath Spa University, 2010
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