Artists

Anne Lydiat is a British artist based on the southeast coast of England. She has formal visual arts training, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and an Master of Arts in Fine Art Sculpture.

In whatever media Lydiat adopts, there is a concern for language and the meanings associated with it. In 2002, she moved onboard a converted trading vessel and this fluvial existence of being suspended in and surrounded by water became central to her art practice going forth.

In recent years, the artist has been experimenting more freely and concentrating on topics and themes that have an impact on her life, particularly around questions of sustainability and the environment. She uses digital colour photographs of Arctic icebergs as experimental photographic images, and like actual icebergs, the prints are subjected to the vagaries of our climate.

She was awarded a Library Research Fellowship at the Louise A. Boyd Archive in the United States. In 2023, Lydiat took part in the exhibition WAKE- An expedition to Louise Boyd Land and was sequentially made Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Lydiat was appointed the first female Henry Moore Fellow from 1985 to 1987. The artist taken part in exhibitions both internationally and within South Africa.