Marie Elisabeth Chichester Rideal (born 1954 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist, art historian, educator and author. She is a Professor in Fine Art in the Painting Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and was a lecturer and educational resource writer at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is known for her early artwork, fine art photography made using a photo-booth. Rideal currently lives and works in London, England.
Early life and education Born in May 1954 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. Rideal attended Exeter University and art college and received her B.A. in Fine Arts and English Literature in 1976 and later earned her Post Graduate Certificate in Education in 1978. Since 1992 she has been lecturing at Slade School of Fine Art, which is part of University College London.
Photography In 1985, Rideal started working exclusively with the photo-booth, creating a number of public art projects and investigating ways of using photographic strip digits within photographic collages literally making light drawings using hand gestures in the photo-booth. Many artists have toyed with this low-budget technology, but few have explored its formal possibilities so extensively as this photographer.
Rideal's artwork is held in public collections including Tate, British Museum, BBC, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the National Portrait Gallery (London), Vancouver Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Brandts Museum of Photographic Art (Denmark), LACMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Also in
Bibliography
Books
Mirrirror: Self-y n ArtisRi and contributions by Frances Borzello and Whitney Chadwick, Watson-Guptill, 2002. Insights: Self-portraits: National Portrait Gallery Insights, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2005; How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings, Bloomsbury, London, 2014. How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings, Rizzoli, New York, 2015. Madam & Eve: Women Portraying Women, co-authored with Kathleen Soriano, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2018,
Contributions
The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles, ed. Millar and Kettle, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, contributions from Rideal are a chapter titled, "Erotic Cloth echoes in film." 500 Self-portraits, published by Phaidon, 2018., contributions from Rideal are a new introduction.
Awards 2016–2017 – Leverhulme Fellowship 2011 – British Academy, an award to work in India 2008–2009 – Rome Wingate Scholarship in Fine Art at the British School at Rome 2005 – British Council 2004 – The Lorne Scholarship & University College London, Dean's Travel Award 2002 – Riba (Special Mention for Glass Drapes at the Birmingham Hippodrome) 1997 – London Arts Board, Individual Artist Award 1988 – West Midlands & Northern Arts 1987 – Eastern Arts 1986 – Scottish Arts Council 1982 – South East Arts
See also Women in the art history field
References
External links Gallery 339 Photobooth.Net LizRideal.com NYTimes.com | Art In Review