[ Richard Layzell ]

Richard Layzell has been showing performances, films and installations internationally since 1980. He is considered a live art innovator, and was one of the first artists to take experimental performance into education, publishing Live Art in Schools, with the Arts Council, in 1992.

His multi-sensory installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people across the UK. 

He’s worked collaboratively with communities in Bristol, Shanghai, Perth (Australia), London, Canvey Island, Glasgow and Dundee, amongst many others. He teaches at University of the Arts London and is a course director at the Atsitsa Centre in Skyros, Greece. 

His highly-praised recent work, Psychosomatic (2023-4, 90 mins), is a unique combination of film and performance that crosses five continents.

He’s the author of Enhanced Performance and Cream Pages and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.