Exhibitions 2026
‘Painting - A Changed Environment’, Messums West, 17th Jan - 9th March 26
‘Material & Maker’, Gallery 57, Sussex, 31st Jan - 14th March 26
‘A Legacy of Art and Influence’, Burton Gallery, 17th Jan - 15th March
DYCP Arts Council Award 2025/26
2025
‘The Tangled Landscape’ at Stables Gallery, Folkestone, 13th Oct - 27th Oct
‘The Between Spaces’ at Vanner Gallery, 26th June to 26th July
‘Unasked Possibility’ at Material Projects Space, Ellenville, New York, 17th - 21st July
John Ruskin Prize Shortlist at Trinity Buoy Wharf until Feb 2nd
‘What Stories Make Worlds’, 20th July 24 - 23rd Feb 25, Hestercombe Gallery,
group show with Emma Critchley, Feral Practice, Hannah Fletcher and Jem Southam
2021 - 2024
‘A Gathering of Unasked Possibility’, A.P.T Gallery, Deptford, London (traveling to BAU Gallery Beacon New York and ACEarts Somerton), Oct 3rd to 6th 2024
‘Ground Up’, GroundWork Gallery, Norfolk, 12th Oct - 14th Dec 2024
‘The Mixtape’, Vanner Gallery, Salisbury, 16th Aug - 14th Sept
‘In The Corner of My Eye’, Fresh Salad Collective at The Koppel Project, Chalk Farm, London, April 19th - 23rd
‘This Earth Holds Our Stories’, The Stone Space Gallery, Leytonstone, London (solo), 11th April - 5th May 2024
‘The Scale of Water’, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, 17th April - 10th May 2024
‘New Platform Arts - Clyde & Co. Art Prize’ shortlisted artist, exhibition at Clyde & Co, London, Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Irving Gallery, Oxford, 2nd March - 5th April 2024
‘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’, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath, 3rd - 17th July 2023
‘Out of the Box’, Studio 10, East Quay, Watchet, 1st - 30th July 2023
‘Ground’, Messums Wiltshire, May 7th - 5th June 2022
‘Cloud Sediments’, Hyphen Lab, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Rd, London, Mar 9 - 13th 2022
'Museum of Loss and Renewal’, Italy, residency, May 2022
‘Carbon-Borders-Voices’, interdisciplinary exhibition online, Jan 2022
‘Tidal Timespace’, Ecléctico ArtSpace: Galería Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, part of ‘Tidal Timespace: Imprints & Palimpsests’, Jan 2022
‘matter maps’, Michael Pennie Gallery, Locksbrook Campus, Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University (solo), Oct 9th - 21st 2021
‘Climate Action and Visual Culture’, University of Huddersfield, July 2021
‘Groundworks’ part of ‘Landlinks’, Three Storeys Gallery, Nailsworth, June 17 - 27th 2021
2020 - 2017
Haus A Rest Zine, Environment Issue, selected artwork, Dec 2020
Centre of Gravity, Bristol, Space Place Practice, Soapworks Publication, available at http://spaceplacepractice.com/resources.html 3rd Oct - 1st Nov 2020
Alumni Exhibition, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath Spa University, 3rd Mar - 10th March, 2020
'Incendiary', Pound Arts, Corsham and Stroud, 19th Mar - Aug 7th, 2020
'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 2019
'Loss & Lucidity', Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal, 8th - 18th Aug 2018
'This Woman's Work', Fringe Arts Bath, 24th May - 9th June 2018
'Mapping Place', Contains Art, Watchet, North Somerset, Solo Show, Aug - Sept 2018 (solo)
'1000 days in...', Two-person Show, Bath School of Art and Design Gallery, Sion Hill, July 2018
'Hold the Line', Arcade Cardiff, May - June (solo) 2018
'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 2018
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 2018
'Library of Pilgrimages', Space Place Practice, Trowbridge Arts, Sept - Nov 2017
'A Sense of Place', The Oxo Gallery, London, Sept - Oct 2017
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
'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
Awards:
Arts Council England DYCP 2025/6
No Platform Art Materiality 2025 shortlisted artist; Atelier Empreinte and Starving Artists Award
John Ruskin Prize 2025 shortlisted artist
New Platform Arts Prize 2024 shortlisted artist
Arts and Humanities Research Council 2024/5
Visual Arts South West WEVAA award 2023/4
John Moores Prize 2023 longlisted artist
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 longlisted artist
Presentations and Publications
For as long as the earth will endure., published in Theatre and Performance Design, Volume 11 Issue 1-2, available to access via tandfonline.com
‘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:
MFA in Fine Art (distinction) Bath Spa University. 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. Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Bath Spa University, project ‘A Living Map of Loss’, May 2024 - March 2025
Visiting lecturer: Bath School of Art MFA 2011 - 2022, University of Northampton BA Fine Art 2022, University of Gloucestershire 2023
Member of Axisweb: https://www.axisweb.org/p/lydiahalcrow/
Contact: lydiahalcrow@gmail.com