An exhibition featuring two renowned artists – Lydia Halcrow and Robyn Neild – inspired by encounters with place.
This exhibition brings together the evocative work of Lydia Halcrow and Robyn Neild, two artists who explore the transitional territory between permanence and decay, presence and absence, belonging and displacement. Both artists forge powerful dialogues between body, landscape and material.
Lydia’s practice employs her walking body as a recording device creating rich textural mappings from collected earth pigments. Her work documents and witnesses changing fragile landscapes, revealing the space between human intervention, environmental entropy and reclamation.
Robyn’s bronze sculptures challenge the material's traditional weight, creating delicate forms that preserve the exquisite qualities of the natural materials she works with, foraged from edgeland areas. Her work explores the space where ephemeral materials find new permanence and offers conversation on the slippages between protection and vulnerability.
For this show Robyn and Lydia’s work reflects intimate encounters with place – from the enigmatic shingle expanse of Dungeness to the shifting shoreline of the Taw estuary.
Lydia and Robyn have exhibited widely and their work is collected internationally.
The Between Spaces is curated for the gallery by Judith Rodgers.