Philip ridley biography children

Philip Ridley [ 1 ] is an English storyteller working in a wide range of genres and artistic media.

His children’s novels include Mercedes Ice (), Dakota of the White Flats (), Krindlekrax () winner of both the Smarties Prize and the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book .

As a visual artist he has been cited as a contemporary of the Young British Artists , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and had his artwork exhibited internationally. He has written novels for both adults and children. In film, he is perhaps best known for his award-winning screenplay for the film, The Krays , a biopic about the Kray twins which was directed by Peter Medak.

As a playwright he has been described as "a pioneer of In-yer-face theatre ", [ 10 ] which is a style and sensibility of drama that characterised many new plays that were performed in Britain during the s. As a writer for the stage he is also recognised for creating an ongoing series of plays for young people The Storyteller Sequence. He has written theatrical works for children and family audiences.

Ridley is also a poet, photographer, and performance artist, and has written drama for radio.

He has also written two plays for young children, Daffodil Scissors () and Krindlekrax () - a stage adaptation of his successful children's novel of the same name - as well as a play for the whole family, Feathers in the Snow ().

Ridley dislikes his work being categorised by the medium in which it is told, often referring to the different genre pieces belonging to each other as "different peaks of the same mountain. He has lived and worked for the majority of his life until moving to Ilford, also in East London. He started as both a performance artist and the creator of a long sequence of charcoal drawings called The Epic of Oracle Foster.

Ridley has written three books for adults: Crocodilia , In the Eyes of Mr. Fury , and Flamingoes in Orbit The next year he created a short film for Channel 4 called The Universe of Dermot Finn , which featured renowned actress Sheila Hancock and was officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival. A critical success there, it received theatrical distribution.

They had previously been recognised for their band, Spandau Ballet.