Marie Elisabeth Chichester Rideal (born 1954 in

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) is a British artist, art historian, educator and author. She is a

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in Fine Art in the Painting Department at the

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and was a lecturer and educational resource writer at the

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. She is known for her early artwork, fine art photography made using a photo-booth. Rideal currently lives and works in

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, England.

Early life and education

Born in May 1954 in

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. Rideal attended

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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

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 has been collected by many public institutions, including

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(London),

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(Canada),

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(Denmark) and more. Additionally, Rideal's artwork has been collected by private institutions including; The Pfizer, Inc. Collection, the Seagram Collection, the Microsoft Art Collection, and the JP Morgan Chase Collection.

Bibliography

Books

* ''Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists.'' by Liz Rideal and contributions by Frances Borzello and Whitney Chadwick, Watson-Guptill, 2002. * ''Insights: Self-portraits: National Portrait Gallery Insights'',

, 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

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, 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 The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to cover ...

*2011 –

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, an award to work in India *2008–2009 – Rome Wingate Scholarship in Fine Art at the

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*2005 –

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*2004 – The Lorne Scholarship & University College London, Dean's Travel Award *2002 – Riba (Special Mention for Glass Drapes at the Birmingham Hippodrome) *1997 –

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, Individual Artist Award *1988 – West Midlands & Northern Arts *1987 – Eastern Arts *1986 –

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*1982 – South East Arts

References

External links

Gallery 339Photobooth.NetLizRideal.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rideal 1954 births Living people Photographers from Buckinghamshire Fine art photographers English women photographers People from Aylesbury