Exhibitions 2021 - 24
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’, October 2024, A.P.T Gallery, Deptford, London
‘In The Corner of My Eye’, April 19th - 23rd, part of Fresh Salad Collective at The Koppel Project, Chalk Farm, 1 Adelaide Rd, London
‘This Earth Holds Our Stories’, 11th April - 5th May 2024, The Stone Space Gallery, Leytonstone, London (solo)
‘The Scale of Water’, 17th April - 10th May 2024, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath
‘New Platform Arts - Clyde & Co. Art Prize’ shortlisted artist, Feb 2024 - Feb 2025 exhibition at Clyde & Co, London
‘A Room of One’s Own’, 2nd March - 5th April 2024, Irving Gallery, Oxford
‘Art & Creativity’ Bloomsbury book launch and workshops, 28th Feb 2024
‘Derelict, art in the age of decline’, The Safehouse, Pekham, London, The Uncovered Collective, 24th - 26th Nov 2023
‘Noticing’, 3rd - 17th July 2023, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath
“Out of the Box’, 1st - 30th July 2023, Studio 10, East Quay, Watchet
‘Ground’, May 7th - 5th June 2022, Messums Wiltshire
‘Cloud Sediments’, March 9 - 13th 2022, Hyphen Lab, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Rd, London
'Museum of Loss and Renewal’, May 2022, Italy, residency
‘Carbon-Borders-Voices’, January 2022, interdisciplinary exhibition online, physical to follow
‘Tidal Timespace’, January 2022, Ecléctico ArtSpace: Galería Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, part of ‘Tidal Timespace: Imprints & Palimpsests’
‘matter maps’, October 9th - 21st 2021, Michael Pennie Gallery, Locksbrook Campus, Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University, catalogue here (solo)
‘Climate Action and Visual Culture’ July 2021, University of Huddersfield
‘Groundworks’ part of ‘Landlinks’ June 17 - 27th 2021, Three Storeys Gallery, Nailsworth
‘Pause: small stories’ April 2021, online exhibition
2020
Haus A Rest Zine, Environment Issue, selected artwork, Dec 2020
Art of Science, Exeter Science Centre, Dec 2020
Centre of Gravity, Bristol, Space Place Practice, Soapworks Publication, available at http://spaceplacepractice.com/resources.html 3rd Oct - 1st Nov 2020
‘Hello World’, TransCultural Exchange 20th June 2020 (multiple venues online)
Alumni Exhibition, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath Spa University, 3rd March - 10th March, 2020
'Incendiary', Pound Arts, Corsham, 19th March - August 7th, 2020
2019
'Art and Environment’, Burton at Bideford Artist Commission, In permanent collection, Dec 2019 - Oct 20
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, 14th -20th Oct
'Loss & Lucidity', Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal, 8th - 18th August
'This Woman's Work', Fringe Arts Bath, 24th May - 9th June
'Incendiary', Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, 5th - 10th Feb
2018
'Mapping Place', Contains Art, Watchet, North Somerset, Solo Show, Aug - Sept (solo)
'1000 days in...', Two-person Show, Bath School of Art and Design Gallery, Sion Hill, July
'Hold the Line', Arcade Cardiff, May - June (solo)
'Between The Shadows and The Light', The Pound Arts, Corsham, Wiltshire, March - April
2017
'Embodied Cartographies', Fringe Arts Bath, Walcot Chapel Gallery, Bath, May - June
'Foundlings', Fringe Arts Bath, FAB3, 6 New Bond Street, Bath, May - June
Residency: Arts in The Alps Doctoral Spring School, Grenoble, practice based research into 'Gestures of here & there: la fabric sensible des lieux' Site specific response to disused industrial site. June
Studio Show, 44AD ArtSpace, Bath, Sept
'Library of Pilgrimages', Space Place Practice, Trowbridge Arts, Sept - Nov
'A Sense of Place', National Brain Appeal, The Oxo Gallery, London, Sept - Oct
'Drawing an embodied line through space, place and time' Elastic Spaces International Symposium, Bath Spa University
Earlier exhibitions
'Imagined Landscapes', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Feb - June 2016
Imagined Landscapes gallery images
'Walking...Landscape...Memory', Salisbury Arts Centre, Jan-Feb 2016 Exhibition Catalogue
'The Box Project', University of Aberystwyth Art Gallery, March 2015
'Freud's House' Burgh House, Hampstead, London, March 2014
Just Passing Through’, Musgrove Gallery, Taunton, May - July 2013
'Something of Place’, Site Festival 2013, Stroud, May 2013
Black Swan Arts Open, Frome, April - May 2013
Space, Place, Practice: 'The Museum Box Project', Corsham Court, UWE, Bristol, 2013
Presentations and Publications
‘Art and Creativity in an Era of Ecocide’, chapter; ‘slowing down, tuning in’ and cover image, available here
‘Drawing Deeply’ The Museum of Loss and renewal, workshop and talk, June 2023
Soanyway Magazine, issue 13, ‘Just Walking’
PhD thesis: ‘A Thousand Intertwinings; An Exploration of Embodied Artistic Processes made in Collaboration with an Estuarine Landscape and its Vibrant Matter’ available here
‘Tread Lightly on the Earth Beneath’, Hyphen Journal 3.1, Ecologies, March 2022, article available here and colloquium booking link here
Body IQ Festival - Bodies of Cultures, Communities and Places, 19 - 21 Nov 2021, Berlin, Presenting work and embodied processes, info here
‘Climate Action and Visual Culture’ July 2021, exhibition and publication, in partnership with University of Huddersfield, publication
‘Re-imagined Landscapes’ 9th, 10th June 2021, Bristol University, Panel Speaker ‘Tread Lightly on the Earth Beneath’
Process Practice and Climate Crisis, 19th Feb 2021, symposium exploring the intersecting threads of politics, activism, and creativity in responses to the environmental crises. Panel speaker ‘Tread Lightly on the Earth Beneath’
'Re-Imagining Places and Landscapes through Walking Practices and Methodologies', conference panelist, European Geographers Conference, Galway, Ireland, May 2017
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’ Drawing and talking workshops - the emotional fall out of climate crisis, Oct 2019
‘An Uncertain Forecast’ Panelist presenting artwork, April 2019
Article, Question Journal - 'Beneath the Surface' 'Walking as a way to make a visual response'
Education:
Fine Art at Bath School of Art, MFA in Fine Art (distinction). Practice-based PhD in Fine Art Bath Spa University, title: ‘A Thousand Intertwinings; An Exploration of Embodied Artistic Processes made in Collaboration with an Estuarine Landscape and its Vibrant Matter’
Teaching & Research Groups:
I am a member of practice-led research groups MASER and eARTh affiliated to Bath Spa University exploring collaborations between art, environment, science and education, and PLaCE International and Space, Place, Practice both collaborative research groups exploring artistic responses to ‘place’.
Associate Lecturer (ongoing), Research Methodologies, Bath School of Art; Programme Tutor, Fine Art and Tutor for Drawing, Painting and Creative Arts degree pathways, Open College of Arts. Postgraduate Research Fellow, Bath Spa University, project ‘A Living Map of Loss’, May 2023 - March 2023
Visiting lecturer: Bath School of Art MFA 2011 - 2022, Open College of the Arts MA 2022, University of Northampton BA Fine Art 2022
Member of Axisweb: https://www.axisweb.org/p/lydiahalcrow/