Abridged CV

Education

1981-82

1978-81

MA Fine Art. (Distinction). Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

BA (Hons) Fine Art. (First Class Honours). Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Professional Experience

2010-11

2008-10

1998-2002

Research Consultant. Columbia College Chicago, USA.

Senior Lecturer. 0.6 Fine Art. BA. MA and PhD.,

Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts, School of Art and Design. Nottingham Trent University.

Special Awards

2023

2019

2018

1985-87

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) London, UK.

Post Graduate Research Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) London, UK.

Library Research Fellow, Louise Arner Boyd Archive, American Geographical Society, Milwaukee University, USA.

Henry Moore Fellowship, University of Central England, UK.

Solo Exhibitions

2023-24

WAKE - In the Wake of Louise Arner Boyd, Director’s Gallery, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) London, UK.

2023

Poles Apart, Hastings Arts Forum, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex. UK.

2015

PhD Confirmation Exhibition, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK.

A Maiden's Voyage’book and film, Chelsea Cafe Project, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK.  

2005

Psychogeographical Traces’ (travel drawings), Tourism & Performance Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

2002

Permission to Speak, Freud Museum, Maresfield Gardens, London, UK.

One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer ‘, video installation External Projection at Site Gallery. Sheffield.

1999

WITHOUT, Beguinage of Sint Elisabeth, Kortrijk, Belgium.

1996

Sol Zeme (‘Salt of the Earth’), Galerie Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia.

1995

Nomenclature, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK.

1994

Beyond the Shadow, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK and The Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham, UK.

1990-91

The Shadow Carriers’, (installation) Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough, UK.

1987

Waiting for the Seventh Wave, Henry Moore Fellowship Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.

Group Exhibitions

2025

IMMUTABILITY’ in Open Art Exhibition, Vienna

IMMUTABILITY’ in ‘Abstract - Synchrony Revealed’, Rupert Museum, Graaff-Reinet, South Africa

IMMUTABILITY’ in ‘Awakening’, Worldwide Virtual Art Exhibition, Arteom Gallery, Times Square, New York

IMMUTABILITY in Cluster Photogtaphy & Print, London, UK.

‘Of Mutability’ in Monochrome’, Glasgow Gallery of Photography CIC, Glasgow, UK.

2024-25

‘Of Mutability’ in ‘Reflections of the Past’, Visions of Tomorrow, CISTA ARTS 

2024

‘Tipping Point’ in Difference and Repetition’, PhotoHastings group show, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards, UK.

Of Mutability in ‘There, Not Here’, St Andrews Mews, Hastings, UK.

2023

ANTARCTICA: THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE Photography number 12. Book and photographs in Silverhill Press Xmas Fair, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea, UK. 

The Presence of Absence’ in ‘The Mind’s Eye’, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex. UK.

2022

‘lost for words…in ‘Blank. Raw. Illegible…Artists’ Books as Statement (1960-2022)’, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, the Paper Museum, both in Düren, Nr Cologne, Germany and Center for Artist Publications at the Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany.

2018

Silent Symphony in Seven Movements in ‘New Visions of Printmaking’, Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

2017

What Has To Be Done, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China.

2016

A Ship of One’s Own inPoints of Departure’, ESTUARY Festival 2016, Tilbury Passenger Terminal, River Thames, London, UK.

Octet’, The Crypt Gallery, St Mary in the Castle, Hastings, UK.

2015

Displacement’, A curated project for thje Nansen Initiative Global Summit on climate refugees, Geneva, Switzerland.

2014

‘Underway’ in ‘Power of the Sea: Making Waves in British Art 1790-2014’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK.

WITHOUT’ in ‘Of Green Lead, Bird and Flower: Artists’ Books and the Natural World’, Yale Center for British Art, New Havem, Connecticut, USA.

PLACE: interior/exterior place of the voyage’ (digital print Arctic 2014) in Crossing the Line 2: Location, (CTL2) Jam Jar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

2013

Still’ (installation) in Troubled Waters, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

Indexical Traces’ (Drawings and Sounding Line) in ‘Recalculating’. Exhibition and Conference as part of a collaboration between CCW Graduate School, UAL and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral School. Triangle Gallery. Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK.

7 Arctic Pebbles/7 Tides’ (Drawings) in ‘Langford120 welcomes 2013’ Langford120 Gallery, North Melbourne, Victoria 3051, Australia.

2012

lost for words…’  in filling in the blanks’, an event, investigating how one could perform the blank book. At X Marks the Bokship. London.

2011

Time and Tide (3 drawings) in ‘TIME PIECES’, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts. Lancaster. 

Sketchbooks as ‘unfolding sculptural spaces’, in ‘Manual Setting’ Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art Gallery, London, U

2010

Return Flight inAn Orchestra of Strings’, The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London, UK.

‘Rising Tides’ (drawings) in ‘space(river)between’ Liverpool Biennale, International Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

‘Time and Tide’ (drawing) ‘When we Build Let Us Think We Build Forever’. 125 years of Art at Margaret Street, Birmingham City University’s School of Art, Birmingham, UK.

‘Performing the City’ (travel drawings) in 'Specula: Drawing Time' a Global Centre for Drawing Project exhibited at: 

‘Metacenta’ RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

‘Drawing Space Dubai’ American University of Dubai.

‘Drawing Space Hong Kong’, Hong Kong.

2009

Fly by Night (Video projection) Nara. Japan.

Moon Moth (installation) in ‘Atmosphere’ Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo. Japan

Heterotopia (film) Purcell Rooms, Southbank, London, UK.

2008

Moon Moth (Installation) in ‘The Moons of Hagashiyama’. Kodai-ji Zen Temple,. Kyoto, Japan.

Flight in ‘Gandhi Group’, Museum of Modern Art, Santiago, Chile.

2005-06

There and Back’ (travel drawings in Malta), Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, London, UK.                        

2005

Flight in ‘Gandhi Group’, Casino Gallery, Las Vegas, USA.

2004

Traces of Uncertainty’, Book Art exhibition. Alexandria Library, Egypt. 

2003

Title’, Heterotopia (film) International Floating Film Festival, River Thames. London, UK. 

2002

SITE Readings’ [collaboration with bookbinder Lori Sauer] in ‘Imagining the Book’ (exhibition of book art from around the world), Alexandria Library, Egypt.

1995

Biennale International (Sculpture and Drawing), Caldas Da Raina, Portugal.  

‘The Worlds women on-Line’, Video Internet Installation incorporating images by women artists globally in tandem with 3D

Computer animation, Computing Commons Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

The Worlds women On-Line, United Nations Fourth  World 

Conference on Women, Beijing, China.

1993

‘Switched On’, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.

1986

‘The Irresistible Object – Still Life 1600-1985’, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK.

WASL (Women’s Artist Slide Library) Diary Exhibition, Small Mansion Gallery, London, UK.

ESPRIT’, Salamo Caro Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK.

1983

New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK.

1981

Northern Young Contemporaries (prizewinner), Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK.

1980

The New Contemporaries, ICA, London.

Voyages

2019 .

2018

2015, 2017

2016

2014

2013, 2014, 2016

Antarctica February - March, 2019

‘In the wake of Louise Arner Boyd’, an Expedition to Louise Boyd Land, East Greenland, August/ September 2018

‘In the Wake of Louise Arner Boyd’, Svalbard, April 2015, Pyramiden, June 2017

‘In the Wake of Louise Arner Boyd’, Scoresby Sund, Greenland, August 2016

‘In the Wake of Louise Arner Boyd’, Bergen - Kirkenes - Bergen, February 2014

What Has To Be Done’, A series of voyages around the Western Isles of Scotland, 2013, 2014, 2016.

Monographs

2023-24

WAKE – An expedition to Louise Boyd Land’.  Published on the occasion of the PV, Event, Exhibition and Film premiere at the Royal Geographical Association (with IBG), Directors Gallery, London. Photographs and text copyright of Anne Lydiat and the American Geographical Society, Milwaukee, USA.

2023

2015

1999

1987

ANTARCTICA: THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE, Photography Number 12, Silverhill Press, Hastings, UK.

WITHDRAWNandWITHDRAWN II’ Anthology of books from the Artist’s Collection. Self -published. Limited Edition of 50.

WAKE, Anthology of books from the Artist’s Collection. Self -published. Limited Edition of 50.

A Maidens’ Voyage, Artist book/dvd, Rock the Boat Press, London.

lost for words… (Blank book 150 pages). Self-published, Edition of 100 copies.

Waiting for the Seventh Wave, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK. In conjunction with the Henry Moore Fellowship, Birmingham Polytechnic, Ikon Gallery, Sheffield Arts Department.

Catalogues/ Publications

2023-24 .

2016 .

2014 .

2013

2012

lost for words…’ in ‘BL ANK. R AW. I LL E G IB L E ‘… Artists’ Books as Statements (1960-2022) Ed. Moritz Küng, Published by Leopold-Hoesch-Museum. (No 16. p.23)

Looking both ways at the same time’ in ‘Slow Release’, University of the Arts London (UAL)/Bunkyo Gaukin University, Tokyo, Japan.

‘Notes from the Offing’ in ‘POWER OF THE SEA – Making Waves in British Art 1790-2014’, RWA, Published by Sansom & Company, UK.

‘A Place to Dream’ in ‘TROUBLED WATERS’, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

I wonder where you are? in ‘EXPEDITION’, BRIGHT 9, CCW Gradjuate School, London, UK

Papers/ Conferences

2021 .

2020 .

2019

2014

.

2013

In the Wake of Louise Arner Boyd’ in ‘Arctic Photography, Film, Exploration and the Archive Conference’, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Thursday 2nd – Friday 3rd December 2021. Online conference.

‘DARKROOMS AND REPRESENTATIONS: Histories of Photography, Film and Exploration,’ Online Conference, National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich, UK.

‘Art and the Sea’, Centre for Port and Maritime History Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

‘An Artists view’ in ‘Living on the River’, Old Naval College, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK. 

‘British Waters & Beyond – The Cultural significance of the sea since 1800’, RWA, Bristol, UK.

The Ship of Empty Boxes: Responses to Containerised Global Trade’, Conference at Birkbeck College, Gordon Square, London, UK.

The Ship as Heterotopia’ in ‘Radical Space – Exploring Politics and practice’, Conference UEL, Stratford, UK.  

‘The Ship as Heterotopia’ in Recontested Sites/Sights, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK.

Keynote Presentations

2019

WAKE’ – A wake as visible evidence of the transient passing of a ship. Photology: PhotoHastings: The Printworks, 14 Claremont, Hastings, UK. 21 October 2019 https://www.photohastings.org/photology-anne-lydiat/

Articles/ Essays

2025

Anne Lydiat in Artist Talk Magazine - Issue 35 (2025)

2021

2014

2002

2001

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2000

1994

1991

Learn to Dream, Essay published in 64 Magazine, A new digital-based photography magazine. 2nd edition. Online.

Power of the Sea: Making Waves in British Art 1790-2014, RWA, Bristol. Redcliffe Press

Flight in ‘Gandhi Group, El Farol Gallery. Valparaiso. Chile

North American Cultural Institute. Valparaiso. Chile.

SITE Readings’ (bookbinder Lori Sauer) in ‘Imagining the Book’, Alexandria Library. Egypt

Permission to Speak, Exhibition at Freud Museum. London

Text by Jo Lee. Text by Dr Nicky Coutts (unpublished)

Artists Newsletter – November 2002

‘Gandhi Group Exhibition’ (winner of international exhibition of the year) Valparaiso Chile. Various press cuttings.

lost for words… (blank book) in ‘VERBAL INTER VISUAL, Lethaby Gallery, Central School of Art, London, UK.

‘Within and Without’ in ‘On the Road to Meikle Seggie’, Richard Demarco. Stanley Picker Gallery. Kingston-upon-Thames. Surrey, UK. Also touring to Oxford Brookes. Edinburgh and Malta.

One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer’

SITE Gallery, Sheffield, SITE brochure, p8.

‘In Town Tonight’, Metro Northern Edition. 3 May 2001, p9 

Outside In’ - Box 1 Jigsaw Puzzle

‘Inside Out’ - Box 2 Jigsaw Puzzle

In ‘Box Project’ Museum of Installation. London.‘Firing Blanks in war of words,’

(Asidelines) The Star Diary. Sheffield. 14 June 2000.

‘Empty Words’, Sunday Telegraph. London edition. 11 June 2000.

‘Lost in Space. Blank look as Anne’s work of art leaves the reader to fill in the gaps’. Martin Dawes. The Star, Sheffield. 8 June, 2000.

‘Yours for £9.99 a book with no words’, Robert Mendick. Independent on Sunday, 4 June 2000.            

‘BLANK VERSE – New book with literally nothing on its pages’. Exclusive by Lorne Jackson, 3 June 2000.

‘Word is the book is totally blank’, Nottinghamshire Evening Post also comment on p.6. 2000.

‘Last word in books!’, Grapevine. Vol. 15. Issue 6. Summer.

‘WITHOUT’ andlost for words…’ (Review) n.Paradoxa. Katy Deepwell, Spring edition.

‘Shadow Lands in Frame’, Nottingham Evening Post.

No 60 Women’s art Magazine, ‘Shadow Play’, review of ‘Beyond the Shadow, Pauline Lucas.

No 41 Women’s Art Magazine. Review of ‘The Shadow Carriers’ Josie Harrison.