Anna Ridley

"Since the late 1960s, Anna Ridley has collaborated with many artists, including works for television, installations, films and videoworks. From 1968-1974 she was involved with the production of the films of David Hall, and those he made together with Tony Sinden. Having worked for BBC Television from 1968, in 1976, she proposed that 'Arena' (the long running BBC arts series) devote a programme to the newly emerging videoart scene, and was co-producer to Mark Kidel. David Hall's 'This is a Television Receiver' was commissioned and prefaced the programme. Its transmission coincided with the Tate Gallery's 'The Video Show' of video installations and a special edition of Studio International on Video Art. She recognised the opportunities that broadcast television could offer to artists interested in bringing their work to a wider public but at the same time challenging the forms and methods of production.

In response to the establishment of Channel 4 in 1981 she formed her production company Annalogue. The first Channel 4 commission was the 'Dadarama' series, broadcast in 1984, and she produced works by David Cunningham, Stephen Partridge, Paul Richards and Michael Nyman, Rose Garrard, Rosemary Butcher and John Latham. The works with Ian Breakwell took the form of two series: entitled 'Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary'; and 'Ian Breakwell's Xmas Diary'. Subsequently she produced 'Public Face:Private Eye' with Ian Breakwell, 'Les, A dream in the Life', by Dean Stockton, also for Channel 4. In 1990 was co producer on the Fields & Frames 19:4:90 Television Interventions again for Channel 4. In 1993 MTV commissioned David Hall and Annalogue to make the series 'TV Interruptions 93'. Ian Breakwell's installation 'The Other Side', commissioned by The De La Warr Pavillion and now in the collection of Tate Britain, was also produced by Annalogue in 2002.

Anna Ridley now divides her time between the UK and Spain." (Source, site web, Rewind)