Liza Dimbleby
- Academic board member
- Faculty
- Alumni, 2005
Biography
Liza Dimbleby is an artist and writer with a PhD in Russian Thought. She has written on Russian artists in Vitebsk in 1918 and Moscow Conceptualists in the 1970s, and published monographs on contemporary artists including Andrey Klassen and Andrew Cranston. I Live Here Now, a book of writing and drawing from walking through Moscow, London and Glasgow, was published in 2008. She has led drawing walks in London, Paris and Novosibirsk. Her latest book is a series of thirty-four texts for paintings by Andrew Cranston (5b, 2024). She curated the major exhibition of modern and contemporary drawings, Drawing the Unspeakable, at Towner Eastbourne, October 2024–April 2025. She lives and works in Glasgow.
On drawing
Drawing is a way to situate myself in space — standing with pencil and paper on the street, fielding the rush of people from a city subway; or in my room, catching the momentarily stopped frames of a film, or trying to translate the imagery of a dream. Each movement out towards is also a movement inwards, a way of holding myself in the world, of binding it inside me; a repeated act of connection, the line of the pencil or brush like a thread, stitching the pieces into the present.
