bideford black: the next generation

Delighted to have had my proposal selected for Bideford Black: The Next Generation, an ACE funded project. In association with The Burton Art Gallery & Museum and Flow.

Other artists include: Neville & Jean Gabie, Corinne Felgate, Luce Choules, ATOI, Tabatha Edwards, Sam Treadaway, and Littlewhitehead. Filmmaker Liberty Smith is commissioned to document each artist's project.

The first site visit presented a surprising and unusual landscape – and the beautiful seam of Bideford Black pigment.

independent school of art

Lizzy and I will be talking about the Tanks & Tablecloths project - both past works and future pieces - as part of the Independent School of Art's series of presentations. It takes place at St Gluvias Church Hall, Penryn on Thursday October 2nd at 7.30pm. All welcome.

time passes, things get done vol. ii

Diagram illustrating how to put up a WW2 Morrison steel table shelter, Ministry of Home Security

Happy to announce that the Tanks & Tablecloths collaboration returns, with new works anticipated for Plymouth History Festival in May 2015. Currently working on table tops and exploding books. Lots of musings and disconnected thoughts as things slowly take shape. It's very exciting to revisit these themes and get to work with Lizzy again. Collaboration really does shift the way that you work, and push you to create things that you may never have considered before.

time passes, things get done

It feels like ages since I posted anything up here. That's because it is. But contrary to how it may appear, things have been happening. The end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014 were mainly focussed on writing.  

Several peer-reviewed papers were published. I was particularly pleased with The Architecture of Conversation in Message: Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice (published 2013, by University of Plymouth Press) which was an epic to both write and design, as I tried to represent the temporal nature of the dialogue (various communications, events, emails and notes over an extended period) and the qualities inherent in conversation through a print-based version of an immersive text (if that's even possible). I'll get a pdf of it up on lizzie.ridout.com soon. A few pics above in the meantime - click to read.

A paper called Showing Saying: On Speech Balloons was also published in Semiotics & Visual Communication: Concepts & Practices (published 2014, Cambridge Scholarly Press).

More backwards gazing soon.

library of congress

Very nice to be here…

off the press

Photo © Steph Bell

Photo © Steph Bell

 

 

 

 

Am indebted to Bryn Sumner and Steph Bell who sent me through photographs last night of the two of them hard at work at WSW letterpress-printing my design for a card to promote Ways to talk and yet say nothing or ways to not talk and yet say everything. I received copies of the cards just before I came out to Finland and they are gorgeous. The bottom four pictures show what they were working so hard on…

Thank you, lovely friends!

temple

Am very delighted to have been offered the opportunity to put one of my Welcome's here at Temple Contemporary at the Tyler School of Art, Philidelphia, USA. Historically it's always been really hard to find appropriate locations to exhibit this piece due to the health and safety issues of having something underfoot. Also, whilst it would be lovely to have this piece outside, it's just to fragile to handle anything other than sunshine. Temple Contemporary appears to have an internal space within an internal space - so this should be ideal. Exciting! Thanks to Robert Blackson, the director for getting in touch.

solo iii

Some tasters…

solo ii

 

 

solo

Have a solo show of the prints and texts for Ways to talk and yet say nothing or ways to not talk and yet say everything and the drawings and sculptures for The architecture of conversation. Had just a day to set it up but it looks ok (although it never would have happened without SB stepping in and saving the day. It's impossible to set up a show single handedly - lesson learned.)

You can find the work in the Scott Foyer, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth.

From 27.03.12 - 26.04.12

That's the poster for it up there - I made it. But you can't really see it properly, so you may just have to come and see for yourself.

Do come!

viewing room

 

All images © L.I.E

I met Christopher Green from the Library of Independent Exchange the other week, and skipped over to see Viewing Room, their latest show at Plymouth College of Art & Design on its penultimate day. And what a fine show it was too. They had all sorts in there and it was beautifully displayed. You could get your hands on enough of it to feel satisfied, despite the fact that quite a lot was under glass. I saw the most recent edition of Making Do (gorgeous and inspiring to see) and my own In Absentia nestled in amongst good stuff. Always very gratifying. On the walls were various artists favourite books from their own personal collections, including big boys like Ed Ruscha, Jem Southam and Alec Finlay. Let's hope we see some more of L.I.E very, very soon.

other peregrinations: cyprus

 

Still haven't quite got my head round being somewhere warm-ish in November…

These from when I was delivering a paper at the ICSVC conference in Limassol, Cyprus a few weeks back.

it aint a feature-length, but…

Women's Studio Workshop from Baynard Bailey on Vimeo.

Look what I just got in my mailbox!
Had forgotten I'd even been part of it…

Does this make me famous?!

spring clean

Delighted to announce that I have finally put some new work up on my website and plan to be a lot more diligent about keeping up with it in the new year. 

Click on the above image to see it a tiny bit bigger - or more effectively, just visit www.lizzieridout.com and have a look.

icsvc

I will be giving a paper called Showing Saying here, in Cyprus, about all that up there, on Saturday 26th November.
I feel like a real jetsetter (and rather uncomfortable about my carbon footprint too… must address this…).

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Will, by the way, be back here soon. Just that it seems if you go away, when you come back there's quite a lot to catch up on. A wee blog break then while I get the rest of my life sorted.

varoom

I've written an article about speech balloons in the latest edition of Varoom…

next stop

Image © Isabel Cuadrado

Image © Isabel Cuadrado

Image © Isabel Cuadrado

Image © Isabel Cuadrado

Image © Isabel Cuadrado

Image © Isabel Cuadrado

Image © Fotis Flevotomos

Image © Fotis Flevotomos

Am very excited. Have just discovered that I will be going to Fiskars Village next summer for a month-long residency. This is the place that the original - and rather gorgeous - orange-handled scissors came from. After falling into wrack and ruin, it's now been re-inhabited as an artists' village. 

Very much enjoying seeing what the other artists have produced during their stints - in particular liking Isabel Cuadrado's daily shifting of the exhibition space (documented here) which is a process very similar to the way I would like to work when I'm out there. Also some of Fotis Flevotomos' drawings of the space around him.