Role Lizzie is a lecturer and joint year one coordinator with Victoria Squire on BA(Hons) Graphic Communication with Typography. She also lectures on MA Graphic Communication. Lizzie is joint coordinator of the Message research group at the University of Plymouth. She also teaches on BA(Hons) Graphic Design at University College Falmouth.
Qualifications & background 2000 - 2002 Royal
College of Art, London
MA Communication Art & Design
1997 - 2000 Falmouth College of
Art, Falmouth BA(Hons) Graphic Design: 1:1
1995 - 1996 Bath Technical
College
Foundation in Art & Design
Professional membership Lizzie is a member of the Cornwall Design Forum.
Research interests
Introduction 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 outcome should be dictated by the theme or idea at the heart of its content. Her work explores how these cultural, historical, visual and textual messages can be effectively re-communicated through new pieces of work.
Re-current subjects in Lizzie’s work relate to: Absences, voids, black versus white, nothingness; The unseen, the silent, the forgotten, the lost, and the traces that remain of all of these things; Museums, collections and archives, memory - both personal and collective; Objects, the everyday; And words, glorious word - as representational, abstract, formal and plastic.
Current research 1. The Architecture of Conversation A continuing series of drawings, prints and sculptures exploring spoken and unspoken dialogue.
The limited edition publication Ways to talk and yet say nothing, or ways to not talk and yet say everything brings together some of this work and was awarded a Women's Studio Workshop Book Arts Residency grant in 2011. This has been funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.WSW is based in Rosendale New York and is the largest publisher of artists' books in the USA. Publications produced during the residencies are held in repositories across the States (Indiana University (Bloomington), Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Delaware, Vassar College, Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale University). WSW also has publications held in over 200 other archives worldwide.
2. The Paper Museum A
collection of historical artefacts, images, texts and other source material
gathered in museums and archives across the country and further afield.
Themed around absence,
this selection of historical references is explored through a series of
newspaper-style chapters to create a formal recorded collection of source material.
These chapters support and aid interpretation of new graphic and object-based
work.
Originally created as part of a British Library Creative Research Fellowship. The first chapter, Homeward Bound or An Exercise in Collecting Beginnings can be viewed here.
Lizzie will be completing a studio residency at Fiskars, Finland in 2012 as part of this project. This ongoing practice-based research is documented on her blog.
