Selected recent exhibitions
‘IMMUTABILITY’ in Open Art Exhibition, Vienna (2025)
Voyages to Greenland have shaped Anne Lydiat’s photographic practice, being both inspiration and subject matter. She was awestruck by the immensity of the icebergs she encountered that had calved from glaciers during the summer months and drifted southward along the coast.
‘IMMUTABILITY’ in ‘Abstract - Synchrony Revealed’, Rupert Museum, Graaff-Reinet, South Africa (2025)
‘IMMUTABILITY’ in ‘Awakening’, Worldwide Virtual Art Exhibition, Arteom Gallery, Times Square, New York (2025)
Work from the IMMUTABILITY series projected live in Times Square
‘IMMUTABILTY’ in Cluster Photography & Print, London (2025)
Lydiat used these experimental photographic images as objects, and like the actual icebergs have been subjected to the vagaries of climate. The faded, dematerialised, images have now been ‘freeze framed’ and printed with high quality inks and paper that have permanently suspended the moment of irreversible change.
‘Of Mutability’ in Monochrome, Glasgow Gallery of Photography CIC, Glasgow (2025)
The Monochrome exhibition provides the perfect context for this unique faded and dematerialised image in that it emphasises a tipping point, a moment of significant and irreversible change.
‘Of Mutability’ in ‘Reflections of the Past, Visions of Tomorrow’, CISTA ARTS (2024-25)
These unique faded, dematerialised photographic images are intended to act as a metaphor for the effects that climate change is having on the Arctic seascape and ultimately our rising sea levels.
‘Traces of Absence’ in ‘Difference and Repetition’, PhotoHastings group show, Electro Studios Project Space (2024)
The repeated image entitled ‘Traces of Absence’ in the exhibition was made on voyage around Scoresby Sund, Semersooq, Greenland, the shadow of the ships mast leaving a trace of our passing.
‘Of Mutability’ in ‘There, Not Here’, PhotoHastings group show, St Andrews Mews (2024)
The digital photographs were made on the 2016 trip around Scoresby Sund. These were printed onto poster paper with low-grade b/w inks, then exposed to the sun’s UV rays, over differing periods of time.
‘WAKE: An Expedition to Louise Boyd Land’, Royal Geographical Society, London (2023-24)
The digital photographs were made on the 2016 trip around Scoresby Sund. These were printed onto poster paper with low-grade b/w inks, then exposed to the sun’s UV rays, over differing periods of time.
‘Poles Apart’, Hastings Arts Forum (2023)
These photographs were made on a voyage to Antarctica in February/March 2019 on the last ship before the onset of winter, they were also shown at the Architectural Association’s ‘Architecture in the Extreme’
‘The Presence of Absence’, in ‘The Mind’s Eye’, Electro Studios Project Space, West St Leonards. (2023)
A tryptic where use of the shadows, reflections and the blurring of the familiar give the sense of the home being no longer a place of comfort but of isolation and incarceration.