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From the Wings 2024-26
An ongoing project visualising British birds - the Jay, House Sparrow and Chaffinch using experimental photography to reveal hidden elements in everyday landscapes. The photographs aim to highlight often unnoticed natural and cultural details, promoting a deeper understanding of place and history. By emphasising the extraordinary within the ordinary, photographs inspired by curiosity and a concern for the environment’s complex narratives.
Liza Dracup
55 minutes ago


Future Flora: Big Screen, Bradford 2025
Reflecting on the successes of 2025, my aim is to continue seeking new opportunities to engage both emerging and established audiences across the region and beyond —by creating new work and uncovering fresh possibilities within my archive. Future Flora Big Screen Bradford Summer 2025
Liza Dracup
Jan 18


Photographic Friends and Collaborators.
Dr Charlie Meecham, Dr Kate Mellor, and Dr Simon Ford at Nanholme Mill, Todmorden. Recently caught up with old friends and collaborators Dr Charlie Meecham, Dr Kate Mellor, and Dr Simon Ford at Nanholme Mill, Todmorden. We talked shop as usual — photography, potential future collaborations, photography and the educational sector, among other topics — but mainly photography. Charlie made two excellent prints from Future Flora , which premiered on the Big Screen (see below) and
Liza Dracup
Dec 4, 2025


Future Flora (2025)
These herbarium-inspired photographs aim to prompt conversations around our attitudes toward these commonplace plants often referred to...
Liza Dracup
Jun 27, 2025


Future Flora (2025)
Positions commonplace weeds at the centre of biodiversity and invites reflection on their future in the local environment.
Liza Dracup
Jun 27, 2025


From the Wings. long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize (2025)
'Hidden elements within everyday landscapes emerge through Liza Dracup's experimental photography. Her work captures overlooked natural...
Liza Dracup
Jun 26, 2025


Light Matter and Sharpe's Wood on the Big Screen, Bradford 2024.
During October and November 2024, selected pieces from Light Matter and Sharpe's Wood were exhibited on the Big Screen in Bradford,...
Liza Dracup
Jan 10, 2025


Bird bath, Garden 2024
Experimental photographic processes have always informed my practice-led research and outputs. This approach has led to various bodies of...
Liza Dracup
Nov 22, 2024


Garden (night) 2024
Currently photographing the garden at night, exploring ideas around these enclosed cultivated and unculivated spaces. Terrains edged with...
Liza Dracup
Nov 22, 2024


Exhibition Autumn 2024: Light Matter
I am pleased to announce that Light Matter will be shown on the Big Screen in Bradford from October 2024. From print to pixels. A new...
Liza Dracup
Sep 7, 2024


Fractured Routes 2024
Exploring ideas around psychogeography and the dérive.
Liza Dracup
Jan 7, 2024


Constellations 2024
Investigating and experimenting with various photographic methods around the home and domestic environment, capturing the overlooked.
Liza Dracup
Jan 7, 2024


New work and research.
Currently exploring and mapping out new ideas with hybrid methodologies and collections based research. Working towards a new research...
Liza Dracup
Feb 12, 2023


The Big Screen Bradford: City of Culture 2025.
Recently on the Bradford Big Screen Artist’s Choice, a project in partnership with Bradford UNESCO City of Film and Not Just Hockney, in...
Liza Dracup
Jul 7, 2022


Showcase (in support of Northern artists) Dean Clough, Halifax. Now showing.
Location: All Dean Clough Galleries. The largest group show Dean Clough has ever witnessed embraces a simple idea. One artist shows one...
Liza Dracup
Jul 30, 2021


Liza Dracup
Jul 30, 2021


Current exhibition April 2021: SelfScapes at Dalby Forest North Yorkshire Forestry England
SelfScapes refers to the relationship between self and its environment. The aim of this research cluster is to investigate both the body...
Liza Dracup
Apr 27, 2021


From the archive:The Seagull (2000) Dundonnell, Scotland
From the archive: The Seagull (2000) Dundonnell made over twenty years ago, whilst working photographically at night in the highlands of...
Liza Dracup
Mar 17, 2021


Archive: Featured in the British Journal of Photography1997, an interview with Darron Hartas.
British Journal of Photography: Abstractly Fabulous by Darron Hartas (17.12.97). .
Liza Dracup
Apr 14, 2020


From the archive: Elemental Patterns 1996, first shown National Museum of Photography, Film & TV
Elemental Patterns responded to the seeming disorder of nature's formations using the four elements earth, air, fire and water. The...
Liza Dracup
Mar 24, 2020
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