SALT artists - Lizzie Ridout

Once More, with Feeling

Work in progress by Lizzie Ridout informed by 57 Fore Street's previous existence as Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School. This work explores the theme of learning and repetition: repetition as echoes, repetition as commitment, repetition as control, as labour, as meditation, as punishment and as repentance.
Conversations with former pupils of Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School early on in the project, inspired thoughts around the theme of ‘rote’. Learning by rote is examined through a series of repetitive acts, both by the artist and by the viewer. Information is memorized, transformed or lost through a variety of processes. However, concurrently, by re-presenting this past in an altered context and form, another generation also becomes privy to a version of this story. And so it continues.
Once More, with Feeling is an opportunity to create an archival document for Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School, where there currently is none. Names will be employed as a simple means to remember a collective past. The handwriting of the participants becomes both a reflection of fundamental rules drummed into us from a young age and a conscious decision to relieve ourselves of those same conventions.
A document will be created throughout the duration of the show by visitors, compiled at its close and 'bequeathed' to the Salt Gallery. Part of this ‘document’ will take the form of a limited edition book chronicling the development of the work within the exhibition and conversations held between the artist, former pupils at the school and gallery visitors.
All former pupils of the Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School are invited to visit the gallery and encouraged to have themselves and their peers remembered. Lizzie Ridout will be in the gallery space on Tuesdays from 10am ‘til 1pm and Saturdays from 2pm ‘til 5pm for the duration of the show and would like to speak to pupils about their memories..

						Lizzie Ridout

							Once More, with Feeling Work in progress by Lizzie Ridout informed by 57 Fore Street's previous existence as Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School. This work explores the theme of learning and repetition: repetition as echoes, repetition as commitment, repetition as control, as labour, as meditation, as punishment and as repentance. Conversations with former pupils of Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School early on in the project, inspired thoughts around the theme of ‘rote’. Learning by rote is examined through a series of repetitive acts, both by the artist and by the viewer. Information is memorized, transformed or lost through a variety of processes. However, concurrently, by re-presenting this past in an altered context and form, another generation also becomes privy to a version of this story. And so it continues. Once More, with Feeling is an opportunity to create an archival document for Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School, where there currently is none. Names will be employed as a simple means to remember a collective past. The handwriting of the participants becomes both a reflection of fundamental rules drummed into us from a young age and a conscious decision to relieve ourselves of those same conventions. A document will be created throughout the duration of the show by visitors, compiled at its close and 'bequeathed' to the Salt Gallery. Part of this ‘document’ will take the form of a limited edition book chronicling the development of the work within the exhibition and conversations held between the artist, former pupils at the school and gallery visitors. All former pupils of the Hayle Kindergarten and Preparatory School are invited to visit the gallery and encouraged to have themselves and their peers remembered. Lizzie Ridout will be in the gallery space on Tuesdays from 10am ‘til 1pm and Saturdays from 2pm ‘til 5pm for the duration of the show and would like to speak to pupils about their memories..