LIZZIE RIDOUT
MA(RCA)
Communication Art & Design
'I often wonder why I write. It's not simply to create beautiful objects
or entertaining stories. It's an activity I seem to need in order to
stay alive. I feel terrible when I'm not doing it. It's not that writing
brings me a lot of pleasure - but not doing it is worse.'
Paul Auster, The Red
Notebook
The majority of Lizzie Ridout ’s work stems from a desire to
discover: a fact, a story, an object, an image, a ritual, a process,
a history. These discoveries inform projects that borrow working methods
from graphic design, illustration and fine art. She believes that the
form of any one outcome should be suggested by the theme or idea at
its heart.
Re-current subjects in Lizzie’s work relate to:
The domestic,
the everyday, the unseen, the forgotten, the lost, negatives and
reverses, museums, collections and archives, memory - both personal
and collective,
copies and likenesses and repetition, small things,
huge things, lists, and words, glorious words.
Lizzie
completed a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Bath
College before going on to study for a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design at
Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall in 1997, for which she received
a First Class Honours. In 2002 she graduated from the Royal College
of Art, London with a Masters in Communication Art & Design. In
February 2007 Lizzie completed the Pearson Creative Research Fellowship
at the British Library in London.
She is currently based
in Cornwall where she continues her own work
and is a graphics and illustration lecturer at the University of Plymouth
and at University College Falmouth. She works independently and to commission.
For a current CV please email Lizzie.
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