‘Four Sculptors’, Bienale Internacional, Portugal, (1995)

In an installation shown in Portugal, Anne Lydiat returns again to the theme of the apron. In Weighed Down by Tradition, 1995, three aprons are linked, their pockets filled with marble chippings from a sculptor’s workshop.  In its companion piece, Carrying on the Tradition, three canvas bags loaded with marble sit on the gallery floor. The weight of domesticity and of an inherited artistic tradition conveys a sense of belonging, of being grounded within a certain common inheritance.

Rosemary Betterton (1996)