La Neuville British Cemetery

Liz Nicol is a photographer who lives and works in Exeter and Venice, recent projects are responses to ‘places of conflict’, including WW1 sites of commemoration (France and Belgium), the politically contested space of the Green Line (Cyprus) and the fragile ecological environment of the salt marshes of the Venetian Lagoon. The photographic element incorporates camera based and camera-less imagery, she predominantly works with black & white photography (analogue) and the historical process of the blueprint, the cyanotype.

Nicol had an established career in education, as a teacher, and a senior manager her later research projects included a residency at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) Cyprus that was established between the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group at Plymouth University and NiMAC, 2013. As one of the co-investigators of Remember Me. The Changing face of Memorialisation, an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded project in collaboration with Hull University (2015–2018), she developed an interest in the national identity of WW1 monuments and flowing from this is her commissioned project on the war cemeteries, designed by Edwin Lutyens.