My work explores ways of collaborating with a place through my walking body. It holds the traces and textures of a landscape to form a series of alternative maps. These experimental mark-making processes are often repetitive exploring tiny incremental changes that build maps of time, decay, motion and materiality.
‘The erosion of landscapes and objects emerges poetically as a fundamental concern in Lydia Halcrow’s multifaceted practice. Often working with repetitive geometries, grids, and aesthetic restraint, iteration becomes a means of productive tension between human structures and the unpredictability of elemental forces. Working in a site-responsive way to her gentle and open-ended explorations on foot, Halcrow often leaves prepared materials to rust or respond to the elements, mapping an environment through material transformation. With the same objects sometimes taking on multiple roles across drawing, print and installation - decay and degradation offer a visual language that engages with both ecological complexity and the enmeshment of human beings with their surroundings.’
Anna Souter, Art Critic, Art & Ecology