Lizzie Ridout, a visual artist, is the new Pearson Creative Research Fellow at the British Library. Over the next year, she will search the collections for domestic objects from the past, seeking out unusual references to both the mundane and the bizarre. By teasing out what is compelling about these historic sources and re translating them into entirely new artworks, Lizzie will coax the past out into the present day.

While you are checking out Lizzies website be sure to go to her Art Sparklets section - a notebook of discoveries. And a design blog space where you can find out more about her work.

Image above is from Lizzie’s once more with feeling project and is of paper decorations.

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