Edward Liddle

I am a Visiting Tutor for the BA (Hons) Fine Art Course at AUB. I enjoy working with students to encourage new ways of working and to help them to develop their ideas.

I have exhibited my work in the UK and Europe. Recent exhibitions include the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Exhibition (2024–25), Fade Resistant Weald Contemporary (2023) and Brewers Towner International Towner Eastbourne (2022). As well as an artist, I am Curator of Exhibitions at The Amelia (Tunbridge Wells) and Co-Founder of Knot Works, an artist-run arts organisation providing artist support and development.

My artistic practice is concerned with the re-interpretation of motifs. Found motifs are taken from a range of styles and eras. Some are derived from found architectural objects such as tiles, scraps of wallpaper or remnants of fabric. Others are found featured in a scene from a film or television programme and are first documented as screenshots.

My works are modular and are exhibited as installations, incorporating one or several of the transformed motifs. At any one point, viewers could be interacting with motifs of everyday net curtains or the carpet from the United States House of Representatives. In these works, I invite viewers to think about the relationship between art, craft, design and the hierarchy of display. What visual material forms the backdrop to our lives and to the historic moments found in the news and on television?