Lydia Halcrow

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material and maker 2026

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My work explores the impact of humans and the passage of time on fragile landscapes.

 

Seeking to co-create with a place, I take inspiration from my repeated walks in flooding coastlines. I forage from the base of collapsing cliffs, collect fragments of abandoned structures and gather human debris. The work holds deep geological time mingling with imprints of human made object-time amidst the unfolding climate crisis. 

 

Like the one-to-one scale map in Borges’ On Exactitude in Science, I use what I’ve foraged as well as the processes of decay I’ve observed to produce records of loss in earthy, textural and material works forming pages of partial and incomplete map books. This work is part of a larger ongoing series ‘The Library of Lost Things’ that engages with research into the history of mapping and counter-cartography. 

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