Lizzie Ridout


2004 2002	Tanks and Tablecloths: Chapter One, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall Tanks and Tablecloths: An Introduction, Falmouth Bookseller, Cornwall Silvanae, part of Shift! Re-appropriated, Euro Markt, Berlin, Germany In conjunction with Shift! magazine Moment, Falmouth Arts Centre, Falmouth The Show, Royal College of Art, London Domestic Sphere, Arthouse Gallery, London Co-curator and exhibitor

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.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008

2007

2006

2005

2008 ad, The Poly, Falmouth

Mix It Up, The Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall

10th International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds

Homeward Bound, The British Library, London

Copy Us, Halifax Book Fair, Halifax

Temporary Type, St Bride Printing Library, London
Curated by Anna Gerber

Extra Ordinary, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

IdeaLondon, ICA, London

Once More, with Feeling, The Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall

Short Stories, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden

ACADEMIC POSTS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 - present

2006 - 2007

2004 - present

2003 - present

2002 - 2005

2001 - present

Part-time Lecturer MAs in Design
University College Falmouth, Cornwall

Pearson Creative Research Fellow, The British Library

Part-time Lecturer BA(HONS) Graphic Communication with Typography
University of Plymouth

Part-time Lecturer BA(HONS) Graphic Design
University College Falmouth, Cornwall

Empress – a Design Partnership, was founded in 2002 by LIzzie Ridout and Elizabeth Haven MA(RCA) to create informed graphic design with a fine art sensibility. Their work as practising artists informed the decisions they made as designers, and vice versa. Empress took on a variety of projects, from publications for artists, websites for arts organisations, artists and bookshops, to sculptural text projects in collaboration with schoolchildren

Visiting Lecturing
Visiting Lecturer on courses - from graphics to illustration, textiles to history
of art - at higher education and post-graduate institutions across the UK, including: Central St Martin's, Kingston University, Chelsea College of Art
& Design, University College of the Creative Arts: Epsom, University of Plymouth, University of West England, University College Falmouth

PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2002

Grafik, Issue 159, January 2008
ISSN 1479-7534

Type Addicted, Victionary
ISBN 9889822946

Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts, Monsa
ISBN 84-96429-37-7

Grafik, Issue 151, May 2007
ISSN 1479-7534

Homeward Bound, The British Library
ISBN 978-0-7123-4990-1

a-n Magazine, November 2006
ISSN 02613425

Extra Ordinary
ISBN 91-631-7331-X

Shift Re-appropriated
ISBN 3-00-013727-0

Between Everyday & Arcane, a catalogue of work and artist's book printed in an edition of forty copies

Homespace, Masters thesis awarded a distinction

Inside/Outside: A Book in Thirty Parts, an artist's book printed in an edition of thirty copies