Marie Elisabeth Chichester Rideal (born 1954 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire)[1][2] is a British artist, art historian, educator and author.
in Fine Arts and English Literature in 1976 and later earned her Post Graduate Certificate in Education in 1978.
[3] 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.
[4] Many artists have toyed with this low-budget technology, but few have explored its formal possibilities so extensively as this photographer.
[5] Rideal's artwork has been collected by many public institutions, including Tate Modern, British Museum, BBC, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cambridge University Library, the Library of Congress, the National Portrait Gallery (London), Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), New York Public Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, Brandts Museum of Photographic Art (Denmark) and more.