Richard Layzell

studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He has a proactive approach to audience engagement, which has led him into the fields of video art, installations, performance art, large scale public events and television. Many national public galleries in Britain including the Tate Gallery and Serpentine Gallery in London, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Kettles Yard in Cambridge have commissioned him.

He has had residencies and performance tours in the USA, Canada, Italy, Poland and France. Since 1995 he has been working as an artist with AIT Plc, a computer software developer, where he has input into communication strategies, company culture and the physical environment. He is the author of Live Art in Schools(1993) and Enhanced Performance (1998), an autobiographical monograph, edited by novelist Deborah Levy.

____________________________________________________________________________________

Head of Centre: Professor Christopher Bannerman



The Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts
Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ
Tel/Fax: 020 8411 6288
e-mail: @mdx.ac.uk