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Anne Lydiat is a British artist based on the southeast coast of England. Her background in BA and MA Fine Art allowed her creative freedom and then, as now, her work was concept driven, not aligned to any specific discipline. After graduating Lydiat was appointed as the first woman Henry Moore Fellow culminating in the one-person exhibition ‘Waiting for the Seventh Wave’ (1987).
Between 2014 - 2018 Anne made several voyages to the Arctic and in 2018 led an expedition to northeast Greenland when she rephotographed locations that the American explorer Louise Arner Boyd (1887- 1972) had photographed some eighty years earlier. In 2023/24 she exhibited the Greenland photographs, film and a catalogue entitled ‘WAKE’ in the Director’s Gallery, Royal Geographical Society, London and was made a Fellow of the RGS.
On her 2016 Arctic voyage Anne made colour digital photographs of encounters with drifting icebergs that captured the beauty and urgent reality of melting ice and climate change. These images were converted into black and white, printed with low grade inks and paper, and then purposely exposed to sunlight to deliberately fade over time mirroring the irreversible environmental changes they represented. For the IMMUTABILITY (2025) series these dematerialised images were then ‘freeze-framed’, printed with high quality inks onto archival paper, permanently suspending the moment of irreversible change…
Arctic, Greenland, Climate change, voyages, women explorers, women photographers
First woman Henry Moore Fellow, UK
Library fellow at the Louise Arner Boyd Archive, USA.
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London
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Emailanne@annelydiat.com
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Phone07769973599
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Websitehttps://www.annelydiat.com
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