Liz Rideal ID

EDUCATION

Brighton Polytechnic 1972-3. Foundation Course.
Exeter College of Art & Design and Exeter University B.A. Combined Honours in Fine Art & English Literature 1973-6.
Post Graduate Certificate in Education. Exeter University 1977-8.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

* indicates catalogue

2000 Lucas Schoormans, N.Y. Photographs Part I 1/8 - 8/9; Hiscox Gallery, E.C.3. Lignum/Silva 29/6 - 10/8; Hackelbury Fine Art Ltd. Seasonal Stills 6/9 - 6/10
1999 The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 1/4 -13/6 includes new commission for the collection & curation of Girls, Girls, Girls, from the permanent collection. Focal Point Gallery, Southend 30/1 - 13/3; Ramsgate Gallery 'Up on Deck' 13/2 - 20/3
1998 Angel Row Gallery, 'New Work'* Nottingham 30/5 - 4/7 touring to Rochester Art Gallery, Kent 11/7 - 22/8; The Photographers' Gallery, Originals, 30/6 - 24/7
1997 Economist Plaza, London. 'Behind the Arras'. (with Julian Opie - outside).
1996 Institut Français, Edinburgh. 'Rainbow Portraits'.
1995 Drew Gallery, Canterbury.
1992 Royal Photographic Society, Bath. Spacex Gallery, Exeter. Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone.
1991 Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh. Lythe Arts Centre, Caithness. Sunderland Polytechnic Gallery.
1990 The Photographers' Gallery, 'Fairy Queen'* ISBN 000 901 380 660. The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland.'The Arbitrarinous Line - Line = Map = Division'.
1989 Cornerhouse, Manchester. 'Corner(House)'. Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 'Seawall - Wave Motion'.
1988 City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. 'People Profile, Pillars of Society'*. University of Kent and The Zanzibar, London 'Inked Flowers'.
1986 Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 'Tartan Castle'.
1985 The National Portrait Gallery, London.'Identity'.
1982 Exe Gallery, Exeter, Devon, 'Bagatelles Végétales'.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000 Grid Visions, 1/2 - 1/3 Winchester Gallery* and touring; The Photo-Booth, 14/10 - 14/1/2001, Museum of Photography, Denmark.*
1999 Pacaembu: a planetary reply for the world, 10/6 - 20/6, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Sao Paulo*
1998 '50 Ans de Tati', 13/3 - 4/4 Musée des Art Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris.* 'The Mag Collection', Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, The Towner, Eastbourne & Cartright Hall, Bradford.14.3/ 31.5*
1997 'Through the Looking Book'(Twenty Years of Circle Press).Royal National Theatre. 11/11 - 4/1 & Six Chapel Row, Bath.* 'History,The Mag Collection. Image-based work in the late C20th'. 15/11- 18/1/98. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull* Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. 20/11 - 23/11
1996 'Kiss This' Focal Point Gallery, Southend. 14/2.- 24/3; 'The Bare Wall'. Michael Klein Gallery, New York.7/4 - 10/5; 'Collection in Context : Selected contemporary photographs of hands from the collection of Henry Mendelssohn Buhl.' Thread Waxing Space.NewYork. 7/9 - 19/10 and touring three venues in U.S.A.* 'Hysteria' Ricco/Maresca Gallery. NewYork* 'East Wing Collection'. Courtauld Institute 12/10/96 - 1/9/1998. *
1995 'As Big As Life' Michael Klein Gallery, New York. 3/6 - 28/7. 'Mapping Knowledge' Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Wales* 'Art Market'.Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall. 'I Wish.I Wish.'The Photographers' Gallery.
1994 Whitechapel Open. 'Whose Looking at the Family?' Barbican Art Gallery. Barbican* 'South Bank Photo Show', Royal Festival Hall* 'Mapping Knowledge'. The Minories Gallery, Colchester*
1993 'A Mes Beaux Yeux'; Auto-portraits Contemporains. E.L.A.C. Lyons, France* 'Black and White and Colour', Zelda Cheatle Gallery. 'Old and new drawings', Slade Gallery, University College London. 'Humbug', Shad Thames Gallery.
1992 'Contemporary British Photography', Zelda Cheatle Gallery.
1991 'Into Landscape' Derby Photographic Festival* Whitechapel/ Broadgate Project.
1990 'A New Necessity', First Tyne International, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle- upon-Tyne* 'Journey of a Book'. The King's Library, British Library & touring.*
1989 'Tree of Life', Royal Festival Hall and touring (13 UK venues).* 'Summer Exhibition', Zelda Cheatle Gallery. 'Travel, Journeys Real and Imagined', Towner Museum & Art Gallery, Eastbourne. 'Tricks and Transformations', City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent* 'Light and Quiet', Street Art Gallery, New British Library.
1988 Edge '88, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 'Changing Minds', Southampton City Art Gallery and touring. 'The Wedding', Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and touring* Riverside Open, Riverside Studios. 'Object & Image'. City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent*
1987 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery. 'Many Hands Make Light Work', Riverside Studios. 'Recent Aquisitions',City Art Gallery, Edinburgh. 'Bury Between the Wars', Bury St.Edmunds. 'Our Beautiful Culture', Coin St.S.E.1. 'Photomaton : A Contemporary Survey of Photobooth Art', Pyramid Arts Centre, Rochester, New York State, U.S.A.* 'Cruisaid', Smiths Gallery.
1986 'Photobooth Work', Galleria del'Occhio, New York, U.S.A. 'Imposters', Untitled, Sheffield, Chapter, Cardiff, and Cambridge Darkroom.
1985 'Imposters'*, Interim Art.

COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of Great Britain
Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris
The National Portrait Gallery
Clock Museum, Bury St. Edmunds
Edinburgh District Council
The Reader's Digest
The National Poetry Library
Cambridge University Library
The National Art Library, Victoria
Washington Library of Congress
Bridwell Library Southern Methodist Unversity, Dallas, Texas
The National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum
The Mag Collection
Henry Buhl Collection. New York
Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada
Progressive Corporation
The Seagram Collection
The Ferens Art Gallery
The Government Art Collection, (British Embassy, Paris)
Microsoft Art Collection

COMMISSIONS

1990 The Ivy Restaurant : Hypnos & Endymion. Trainload Freight, British Railways Board. NCVO - National Council of Voluntary Organisations. Sponsored by British Telcom.
1998/9 Ferens Art Gallery. Willow Weep, Set of 4 c-type prints for the collection. Photoworks in collaboration with VPMA, Belgium.
2000 Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham - 10 metre stairwell hanging lantern & outer glass theatre wall (15 x 8 metres) to be fritted with related imagery.

ARTISTS BOOKS, CATALOGUES, AND FILMS

1988 'People Profile - Pillars of Society', Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery. Text by Jim Shea, Curator and Dr. Judy Collins, Tate Gallery, ISBN 0 905080 84 X .
1990 'Lusus Naturae'. Circle Press Publications. Illustrations by Rideal, poem by Wendy Mulford. Liz Rideal, 'Photobooth Collages'. Published by Circle Press to coincide with the exhibition at the The Photographers' Gallery, with a text by David Chandler.
1998 'Liz Rideal:New Work'. Published by Angel Row & Ferens Art Gallery with text by Briony Fer and Anna Moszynska, ISBN 0902751247. CD cover 'Van Dyck Hands' Jazz compilation. The Knitting Factory, New York. Film Les Draps dans le jardin, 9 minutes, Super 8 transferred to video, shown at The Photographers' Gallery.
2000 Lignum Silva, 7 minutes, Super8 transferred to video.
2001 "Liz Rideal:Stills", published by Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York.Text by Charles Darwent and Norman Bryson, ISBN 0 970897707.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

1983 'Growing up' - Lifesize self-portraits of children. In collaboration with Helen Chadwick.
1984 'The Honest Portrait' - Two types of portrait separated by 400
years. Contemporary work by Tony Bevan, juxtaposed with unkown artists from the seventeenth century.
1985 'The Art of the Drapery Painter' - Van Aken and other unsung heroes.
1986 'The Reproduced Image' - From copy workshop to photographic studio. Focusing on the Van Dyck painting of the 'Five Children of Charles I' (1637.)
1987 'Magnification versus miniature' - Questioning the importance of different scale used in the making of portraits. 'Sculpture in the Basement' - A look at the various materials and methods of portrait sculptors. Including Roubiliac and Frink.
1988 'Lucy and George' - Larkin; C17th Journeyman painter. Specialist painting techniques in full length paintings of the period. 'Shadowplay' - An exhibition of photographic works using dramatic shadow to enhance the image of the sitter by Wilding, Beaton and Gordon Anthony.
1989 'Looking to Construct' - Completed works and preparatory drawings by Schwartz, Procter, Powys Evans and Sutherland.
1990 'Camera Obscura - An upside down experience.' An investigation into the theory of the photographic camera, without its chemistry. 'The Self-Portrait' - How do artists see themselves?
1991 'Double Take' - Comparing the art of graphic and photographic portraiture. Touring to nine U.K.venues* 'Dorothy Wilding' - Photographic technique'.
1992 'Screen Deep' - Computer installation by Julie Myers juxtaposed with work by Andy Warhol , Huysmans and Lely. 'The (Changing ) English Face' - Drawings on paper which exemplify different drawing techniques and media, reflecting the varied style of British portraiture.
1994 'Portraits in Disguise' - How sitters choose to 'fancy' dress for their portraits : a Duchess as a milkmaid, a nobleman in Van Dyck costume, an artist as Neptune.
1996 'The Room in View'. Portraits of people within interiors :the studio, the lab, the home. Touring; Eastbourne, York, Bath, Brighton, Canterbury.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, RADIO, TV

1985 'The Face', July.Lesley White. 'Performance Magazine', July/August. Rob La Frenais. 'The Times', 14 August. Dalya Alberg. The Wogan Show. BBC TV. 27 September. 'Image Magazine', October No.122. John Connolly
1986 'Artscribe', Feb/March. Michael Archer. 'The Scotsman', 30 October. Main photo: Dennis Stranghan. 'Arts Review', 21 November.Clare Henry. 'New Society', 16 July Obsevations. 'The Glasgow Herald', 7 November. Clare Henry. 'The Observer', 7 December. Main photo: Arthur Foster.
1987 'Times-Union', Rochester, New York, 24 December. Sebby Wilson Jacobson. 'The Brighton-Pittsford Post' 16 December. Heidi Lux. 'Sunday Democrat & Chronicle', Rochester. 24 December. Rod Netsky.
1988 'The Evening Standard', 24 May. Lucinda Bredin. 'The Guardian', 30 August. Pauline Willis.
1989 'The Eastbourne Herald', 12 February. Brenda Mason. 'Image Magazine', August. John Connolly. 'The Sunday Times Magazine',29 October.Steve Turner. 'The Independent', 24 October. Main photo: Geraint Lewis.
1990 'The Guardian', 13 May. Charles Hall. 'Le Journal de C.N.R.S.', April. Numero 4. Cover image. 'The International Herald Tribune', 3 August. 'The Evening Standard Magazine', 6 August.Lucinda Bredin. 'London Log', November.No.20. 'Creative Camera', December. Emmanuel Cooper. Dictionary of British Art Vol.VI. Twentieth Century Painters & Sculptors, Frances Spalding.
1991 'Portfolio Magazine', Spring.No.10. David Chandler. 'The Observer Magazine', February.What's Hot? Chloe Sayer. 'The Guardian', 27 February. Sacha Craddock.
1992 'The Independent on Sunday', 12 January.Tom Lubbock. 'Zoom', March. No.116. Margherita Heuser.
1993 'Facing the page, British Artists' Books'. Cathy Courtney & Silvie Turner
1994 'Creative Camera'. August. Emmanuel Cooper. 'Kultur Liv', 9 July. Marianne Kleivan. 'The Independent'.21.10.94.Genevieve Fox. 'The Observer Review'.23.10.94.William Feaver. 'Mapping Knowlege' 29.11.94. Les Bicknell. 'F - Fotografisk Tidskrift.' No.5.December Marianne Kleivan. 'Woman's Hour'. Radio 4. 26.5.94.Interview.
1995 'Village Voice'. 25.7.95 Vince Aletti.
1996 'The Guardian'. 14.2.96.Jonathan Jones. 'The List', 3-16 May.Juliet Knight. 'Art Monthly'.No.196. May. Mark Gisbourne. 'Portfolio Magazine'. June. Emmanuel Cooper. 'Bomb' (NY)Winter 96.2page spread images. 'In Celebration'. Radio 4.22.4. David Prest. 'The Looking Book - A Pocket History of Circle Press 1967 - 1996' Cathy Courtney.
1997 'The Times' 15.5.97 Sacha Craddock. 'Aperture Magazine' 1.10.97 Bill Hunt.
1998 'Contemporary Visual Arts' Issue 20 Keith Patrick. 'The Guardian Guide' 30.5-5.6.98 'The Big Issue' 20-26.7 Helen Sumpter. 'Creative Camera' June/July '98 Emmanuel Cooper. 'Time Out' 29.7 - 5.8.98 Tania Guha.
1999 'Make', July Susan Bright. 'The Independent on Sunday'â 23.5.99. Charles Darwent. 'Contemporary Visual Arts', Issue 24. Kirsty McGee.
2000 'New York Times' 11.8.00 Ken Johnson. New Yorker, 14.8.00 Gus Powell. 'New York Times Magazine', 12.8.00. 'The Independent on Saturday', 26.8.00 Lisa Markwell. 'TimeOut/New York', 31/8 - 7/9 Sarah Gavlak. 'Zoo', Autumn Issue. 'House & Garden,' (N.Y.) October Moira Hodgson.

AWARDS

1982 South East Arts. 1986 Scottish Arts Council.
1987 Eastern Arts.
1988 West Midlands & Northern Arts.
1997 London Arts Board. Individual Artist Award.

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
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1985 'Identity'. The National Portrait Gallery.
1986 'Tartan Castle'. Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.
1988 'The Wedding", Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; 'Edge88'
1989 'Corner(House)'.Cornerhouse, Manchester. 'Seawall - Wave Motion'. Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; 'Tree of Life: New Images of an Ancient Symbol', South Bank Centre and 13 venues in the UK
1990 'The Arbitrarinous Line: Line = Map = Division'. The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland.
1991 'Landscape of Experience'.Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia.
1994 'Picture Parade'. British Film Institute.
1995- 'People Progress'. St.George's Underpass, Canterbury : re-furbishment with photobooth images onto wall tiling, ongoing.
1996 'Kiss', Focal Point Gallery, Southend
1997 'On the Edge'. South East Arts Art Project, Strood, Kent. 'Cascade'. Sþo Paulo projection in collaboration with Sculpture Urbaine,Grenoble.
1998 'Up on Deck' portraits of Ramsgate folk.

TEACHING AND OTHER COMMITTMENTS

1982/1992 Art Education Officer at The National Portrait Gallery. (full-time) The post involved gallery lecturing at all levels, both with the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. I instigated many new developments in particular the concept of specific exhibitions related to educational programmes such as the display originating from a residency by Helen Chadwick and my own groundbreaking Identityâ photobooth project.These types of shows have now become main stream for galleries not only in the UK but also abroad. The development of practical art courses primarily directed at the troisime age has also been a major success; from an initial interest group of twelve in 1982, the mailing list has grown to 1,200 people. Production of slide packs - The Self-Portrait and The Twentieth Century Portrait.
1993-present My part-time work now concentrates on providing a programme of practical art courses for young people, adults and art teachers. I continue to give public lectures and curate exhibitions; I am currently working on Women's Self-Portraits from the NPG collection, scheduled for 2001.
1991- Judge B.P.Portrait Travel Award. National Portrait Gallery.
1989-present Part-time Lecturer, Painting Department, Slade School of Fine Art. Over the past ten years I have also lectured at various art colleges including - Leeds, Norwich, Winchester, Central St.Martinâs and The Royal College of Art.
1995/6/7 External examiner Leeds University, B.A.Fine Art.
1996/7/8 Board member Waterman's Art Centre, Brentford, Middlesex.
1998 LAB Visual Arts (grants) Selection Panel.
1999 Contemporary Art Society advisor for purchases to the Ferens Art Gallery Collection.

public lectures since 1993

11.2.93 Jacob Epstein - Public and Private Sculpture.
11.3.93 Wyndam Lewis and his Vortex.
1.4.93 British Renaissance Portraits.
20.5.93 Brothers and Sisters; sibling portraits through the ages.
10.6.93 Spheres and skulls : Symbolic resonnance in portraits.
10.8.93 Liquid Eyes; Sargent's portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw. Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
9.9.93 My Husband and I : Double portraits from 1500.
28.10.93 Painting and photography in the Nineteenth Century.
11.11.93 In Close-Up. Five portraits over five centuries.
27.1.94 The Portrait Now : Contemporary perspectives on an old theme.
3.3.94 Annie Leibovitz : Famous for a 1/4 hour?
20.4.94 16th & 17th Century Miniatures.
18.5.94 Portraits in Disguise.
9.6.94 Portraits after Death.
8.8.98 Tyro and Wyndam Lewis. Museum of Modern Art. Edinburgh.
22.9.94 Photography & Fine Art. Four Edwardian Women Photographers.
23.11.94 The Dynamics of the Group Portrait.
15.12.94 Wyndam Lewis and the Sitwells.
10.1.95 Masque Paintings. The Tate Gallery.
9.2.95 The C18th Portrait within C18th architecture.
9.3.95 Drawing, an ignored medium? Whitworth Art Gallery.
27.3.95 Yves Klein. Hayward Gallery.
6.4.95 The Self-Portrait : the most revealing portrait?
2.5.95 Renaissance Portraits. Exeter University.
27.5.95 Avedon portraits : Public and Private.
31.5.95 Carlyle by Greaves. Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
29.6.95 The Art of Preparation : Drawings for Paintings.
13.8.95 Baldessari. Serpentine Gallery.
19-20.10.95 From Holbein to Van Dyck. The Renaissance Context and the Evolution of British Portraiture. Part 1 & 2.
29.2.96 Inigo Jones, Van Dyck and Wilton House.
4.4.96 The House, the Face, the Garden. Beningbrough Hall.
5.11.96 Art of its' Time? Mapplethorpe. Hayward Gallery.
18.11.96 Portrait Painting Now.University of Hertfordshire.
22.1.97 The Room in View. Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
25.1.97 Howard Hodgkin.Hayward Gallery.
13.2.97 Early British Sculpture.Victoria & Albert Museum.
28.2.97 Drapery Painting: Form and function within the portrait.
15.5.97 Elizabeth I. Queen of Portraits.
10.7.97 Real & Imagined Portraits. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Norwich.
20.11.97 Classic Camera Portraits.
2.4.98 Women Artists & Photographers.
14.5.98 Angelica Kauffman, C18th Darling.
29.10.98 Mary Beale, C17th Artist.
18.2.99 Women War Artists, Mimi Butler and Laura Knight.
13.5.99 Van Dyck Magic.
17.6.99 Contemporary Manipulated Photography. Victoria & Albert Museum.
1.7.99 The Self-Portrait; a template for all portraits?
25.11.99 From the Cradle to the Grave: Drapery in portraits.
18.5.2000 Drawings from the NPG Collection.
8.6.2000 Formality, Format and Fantasy.: Portraits through Time. Montacute House.
4.7.2000 Dressing-up: Painterly Precedents in David Wilkie Wynfield. Tate Britain