Anne Lydiat
About Anne
Instagram: @anneonrock
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’.
In 2002 she moved onboard a converted trading vessel moored on the River Thames. This fluvial existence, constantly suspended in, and surrounded by, water became central to her art practice. Lydiat developed an interest in women’s maritime history challenging the perceptions of the ship as a space solely occupied by men. On discovering the pioneering voyages of the American Arctic explorer Louise Arner Boyd, Lydiat was awarded a Library Research Fellowship at the Louise A. Boyd Archive, USA. In 2018 Lydiat led an Arctic expedition to Louise Boyd Land, in northeast Greenland when she rephotographed locations that Boyd had photographed some eighty years earlier.
As an acknowledgement of the importance of her expeditions, in 2024 Lydiat was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and exhibited her photographs, film and catalogue from her 2018 expedition entitled ‘WAKE’.
