2024 October 5th until April 27th 2025. DRAWING the UNSPEAKABLE a show of nearly 300 drawings by 90 artists, opening at Towner, Eastbourne, curated by David Dimbleby and Liza Dimbleby. More information: townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/drawing-the-unspeakable
2024 May 11th and 12th MISCHIEF a group show at Safehouse1, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN, curated by Jenny Blake. Open 11-6 SATURDAY and SUNDAY, PV 3-6 pm Saturday May 11th.
2024 April 20th Launch of Andrew Cranston Pocket book produced by galerie5b.net/andrew-cranston with my commentaries and text by Oli Hazzard. Readings and talk at Glasgow Print Studio 3.30-5.30 pm
2024 January 31st 7pm In Conversation with LORNA ROBERTSON and ANDREW CRANSTON at the Royal Drawing School London. Watch the Conversation Here
2023 September 13th to October 4th: THE CROWN LETTER Exhibition at The French Institute, Prague. Will we still want to Dance Again? Tales for a Future at Francouzský institut v Praze. Štěpánská 35, 110 00 Praha 1. Open Monday-Saturday 10am -8pm
2022 The Crown Letter is awarded the Hans und Lea Grundig prize 2021, received by Natacha Nisic in Berlin on November 10th
2022 April 9th to May 7th, The Crown Letter in Kyoto, Japan as part of Kyotographie KG+. I will be taking part in a Crown letter salon with fellow artist collaborators on May 7th at 10am UK time. Free and open to all. Zoom link here
The Crown Letter at Institut Français, Kyoto
2022 February 23rd Hosting Creative Conversation between Ralph Rugoff and Emma McNally for the Royal Drawing School watch HERE
2021 December 15th to February 15th 2022 The Crown Letter exhibition at Museo de Arte Precolombio e Indigena, Bienalsur, Montevideo, Uruguay
2021 October 14th My film of Three Letters from Glasgow: Without Time, Musica Adventus and The Room Inside, words translated into French and read by Manuela Morgaine, is showing at the Crown Letter exhibition at Fondation Fiminco, Paris. 15th October to November 30th
Still from my film, Three Letters from Glasgow: Without Time, Music Adventus and The Room Inside, 2021
2021 September 30th Opening of The Crown Letter exhibition at Centre Cultural Cordoba as part of Bienalsur Argentina. Online Catalogue of Bienalsur 2021 here.
2021 August 1-31 A selection of my texts and images from the Crown Letter will be on show in Paris as part of Paris Photo Days, at the Jardin Villemin (1-31 August) and Rue de Rivoli (1-22 August)
2021 June 10th Glasgow Independent Studios Reopening show in Trongate 103 during Glasgow International 2021
2020 October 14th Creative Conversation: Talking Painting and Drawing with Denzil Forrester. Online. More info and watch the conversation: HERE
2020 May 5th and ongoing Images and Texts for Crown Letter Project an international collaboration by women artists, created during lockdown. See my images and texts here crownproject.art/liza-dimbleby/
2020 FEBRUARY 5th In conversation with Artist Margarita Gluzberg at the Royal Drawing School, London. Press Link to Listen Here
2019 AUGUST 14th-18th STILL LIFE, exhibition at Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103
2018 SEPTEMBER 1st-2nd NOVOSIBIRSK BOOK FESTIVAL: NOVAYA KNIGA. Talk and Drawing Walk.
2017 SEPTEMBER: Recording of Jacques Roubaud's Cartwright Gardens: A Meditation for Konch podcast.soundcloud.com/konchpoetry/cartwright-gardens-a-meditation-by-jacques-roubaud-read-by-liza-dimbelby
2017 JUNE 2nd: In conversation with artist YURI VASHENKO at Pushkin House, London
2017 JANUARY: Introductory talk to: Towards the Chagall of Dead Souls, with Timothy Hyman at Pushkin House, London. Watch Here: Towards the Chagall of Dead Souls. Video
2016 DECEMBER: Post-Truthmas, Glasgow Independent Studio Show at Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
2016 NOVEMBER: Configuring the World: Fields of Lines and Lines of Flight. A talk at Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
2016 JUNE: Along the Canal D'Ourcq. A Drawing Walk, talk at Society for French Studies Conference, University of Glasgow
2015 NOVEMBER: BOOK LAUNCH of Andrew Cranston Who is This Who is Coming? AT CCA GLASGOW and at ROB TUFNELL GALLERY, London
2015 NOVEMBER: 20x20 INDEPENDENT STUDIOS ANNIVERSARY SHOW at TRONGATE 103, GLASGOW
2014 DECEMBER: GROUP SHOW at GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM
2014 NOVEMBER: PARABOLA at GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM
Group show at Glasgow Project Room curated by Peter Murray, 5-15th November
2014 JUNE-OCTOBER: PERCEPTIONS OF THE BANLIEUE: An Exhibition from A Drawing Walk, Paris
Exhibition of work produced from the Banlieue Summer School 2013, at Echomuseé de la Goutte d'Or, June-July and at University of Lyons, October 2014. Exhibition will move to University of Cergy-Pontoise later in the year.
2014 APRIL: BOOK LAUNCH of Voices and Images from the Banlieue and EXHIBITION, PERCEPTIONS OF THE BANLIEUE; at Oxford Brookes University, OXFORD coinciding with The French Urban Periphery conference 3-5th April
2014 JANUARY: VERNISSAGE at GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM
Group show curated by Peter Murray
2013 JULY: DRAWING WALK in PARIS
A Drawing Walk along the Canal d'Ourcq, walk and workshop in collaboration with Anna-Louise Milne of ULIP, held 11th July 2013 as part of the Banlieue Network International Summer School, Paris.
2013 APRIL: EXHIBITION at SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS, LONDON
Exhibition of images and texts from I Live Here Now at Siobhan Davies Studios, part of the What_Now Festival, curated by Frank Bock, 5-7 April 2013
Read interview with Frank Bock in Bellyflop Magazine, 2nd April 2013
Read interview with Frank Bock in Bellyflop Magazine, 2nd April 2013
2013 FEBRUARY: ARTISTS and ARCHIVE, TALK AT GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
Talk on Moscow Conceptualism, Russian artists and the archive at Glasgow University (MA Archive Studies at HATII)
2012 OCTOBER: GUEST AT GRAY'S, ABERDEEN
26th October, Guest at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
Link to YouTube archive of this talk on Drawing the City at Grays School of Art
Link to YouTube archive of this talk on Drawing the City at Grays School of Art
2012 JUNE: MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL OPEN BOOK FESTIVAL
Talk and workshop moderated by Sasha Mozhaev, as part of the Seventh Moscow International Open Book Festival at ЦДХ (Central House of The Artist), Moscow June 2012
Moscow Times article by Joel Lewin
Moscow Times article by Joel Lewin
2012 MARCH: ART AND WANDERING AT CCA, GLASGOW
Art and Wandering: Hide and Seek in the City, Walking, Drawing and Displacement, talk and discussion event with David Pinder at CCA, Glasgow, organised by UWS, 7th March 2012
2012 FEBRUARY: ARTIST AND ARCHIVE, TALK at GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
The Artist and the Archive, talk for MA Archive studies students at HATII, Glasgow University
2010 MARCH: TALK at PUSHKIN HOUSE for MAPS, LONDON
Drawing Moscow: Capturing the Street Life of a Changing City, talk organised by MAPS at Pushkin House, London, 17th March
2008 JUNE: I LIVE HERE NOW, Exhibition of Drawings at ART JERICHO, OXFORD
Exhibition of Drawings from I Live Here Now at Art Jericho, Oxford, June-July 2008
Article on exhibition in Oxford Times, June 2008
Monograph on the drawings published by Art Jericho, Oxford, June 2008
Article on exhibition in Oxford Times, June 2008
Monograph on the drawings published by Art Jericho, Oxford, June 2008
2008 JUNE: Talk on I LIVE HERE NOW at The Prince's Drawing School, LONDON
Talk on the book and exhibition at The Prince's Drawing School on June 19th
2008 MAY: I LIVE HERE NOW, Book Launch and Exhibition of Drawings at 18-22, Charlotte Road, LONDON
Exhibition of Drawings from I Live Here Now, published by Firework, May 2008
2007 FEBRUARY: UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA TALK
Talk and tutorials on Drawing in Moscow, London and Glasgow for BA Drawing Students
2006 JULY: RUINS, a Demolition Show, LONDON
A group show curated by Stephen Morris, with Ruth Maclennan, Margarita Glutzberg and others; reviewed in TLS by Zinovy Zinik
2005 NOVEMBER: DISCERNING EYE, LONDON
Invited exhibitor in Discerning Eye exhibition 2005, at Mall Galleries, London; selected by Catherine Goodman
2005 OCTOBER: NOTES FROM THE NEW CITY, Joint Exhibition at C4RD, LONDON
Notes from the New City, joint exhibition with Massimo Franco, Henry Guy and David Caldwell at the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD), London
2005 JULY: INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE at SELFRIDGES WINDOW, LONDON
Drawing installation, live drawing and performance choreographed by Clare Calvert in Selfridges Window space, Oxford Street.
2004-5 Research Fellow at Prince's Drawing School, LONDON
Research year, drawing in Moscow, Glasgow and London
2004 SEPTEMBER: THE DRAWING YEAR, Exhibition, LONDON
Drawing Year: end of year show at The Prince's Drawing School, 18-22 Charlotte Road, EC2
2004 JUNE:LONDON CALLING, Exhibition at MANSFIELD PARK GALLERY, GLASGOW
London Calling, a joint show at Mansfield Gallery with Massimo Franco, Diana Leslie, Henry Guy and David Caldwell
review by David Pollock in The List, issue 495
review by David Pollock in The List, issue 495
2004 MAY: VISIONS OF LONDON, Exhibition at ARTSPACE GALLERY, LONDON
Visions of London Exhibition at Art Space Gallery, Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London N.1, opened 28th May
2003 NOVEMBER: KEVIN SPACEY SHOW at GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM
2002 MARCH: Compass Gallery and Cyril Gerber at GLASGOW ART FAIR
2002 FEBRUARY: THIS NEVER REALLY HAPPENED at ARLINGTON BATHS CLUB, GLASGOW
Joint show with Liz Dew and Diana Leslie (reviewed in Glasgow Evening Times), February 2002
2001 OCTOBER: TRANSMISSION MEMBERS SHOW at TRANSMISSION, GLASGOW
STUDIO ACTIVITIES 1996-CURRENT DAY
1999-2015 Member of Independent Studios, Glasgow, exhibiting regularly in Members shows at Glasgow Project Room 1999-2003 and 2009-2014, Director of Independent Studios 2010-2015.
1996-1999 Member of King St Studios, London, an artist run studio and exhibition space; co-curating and organising many memorable shows and events together with fellow studio members Clare Calvert, Stuart Croft, Vado Mesquita and Simon Ling.
1996-1999 Member of King St Studios, London, an artist run studio and exhibition space; co-curating and organising many memorable shows and events together with fellow studio members Clare Calvert, Stuart Croft, Vado Mesquita and Simon Ling.