How to Read Painting : a short survey of Western European Painting, has now sold in excess of 55,000 copies. To mark the publication of the book by Bloomsbury in October 2014. Rideal gave a Lunch Hour Lecture at UCL (live streamed and available online) and lectured at the The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and The Wallace Collection, London‪: works from these collections feature in the book. It has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Korean, Polish and Russian. Published by Rizzoli, USA (April 2015), her launch lecture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, introduced the concepts behind the publication and linked these to their 1869, Raphaelle Peale‪ painting,‬ explaining how his drapery relates to her own art production, she gained an Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer grant for her USA research and travel. Rideal's strands of research inter-connect and are explored through lecturing, exhibiting and writing about visual art. FREEFALL, her fifth solo show in the USA was held at Gallery 339, Philadelphia in October 2014, with catalogue contributions from Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Professor John Onians and Professor Paul Hills (Courtauld). The University of Massachusetts held a retrospective of her work in 2001 and she had three solo shows at Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, in 2000/01/06.

 

Kerfuffle, BBC building wrap, 2004, Drappeggio in Ercolano, Aurelian Wall projection, Rome, 2009

Palazzo Spada (cat), British Academy, London, 2016

Drapery and portraiture are important research themes. In Philadelphia, Cloth Cascades, was projected at night onto an adjacent gallery wall. Rideal showed MOI NON PLUS, a new film revealing the importance of narratives that can suggest meanings locked within dumb textiles at the Erotic Cloth colloquium, University for the Creative Arts, London (20/03/15), her paper Erotic Cloth Echoes in Film will be published by Bloomsbury in 2018. This work was rooted in a previous commission for the exhibition Cotton: Global Threads at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester University (2012). A British Academy Grant enabled her to film the cotton industry in India. Drapery as a research strand will inform the new work Rome and the Campagna: Splicing Time, in response to her Leverhulme Fellowship awarded in April 2016.

Golden Years?1905-1950: a non-digital world, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2012) continued research previously realised in her books - Insights: Self-portraits, (The National Portrait Gallery, 2005) and Mirror/Mirror: Self-portraits by Women Artists (NPG & Watson-Guptill, N Y. 2001). Rideal is co-author with Kathleen Soriano of Madam and Eve, to be published by Laurence King, 2018.

Rideal's innovative photo-booth work was included in the History of Photography: Series and Sequences, exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum, alongside images by Muybridge and Fenton, February-September 2015. The Portland Art Museum, Oregon and The Whitworth Art Gallery acquired her work in 2014, which can now be found in 20 public Collections worldwide including, Tate, The Yale Center for British Art, George Eastman House, International Museum for Photography and Film, USA and The Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark.