Contemporary Art - Abstract Painting
Welcome to the website of Stephen Riley.
Stephen Riley is a contemporary British artist. He uses both painting and photography*. This site is devoted largely to his paintings.
His work is concerned with the language of painting in the context of its relationship with other forms of visual representation, the expectations conferred upon it by its history and practical medium of painting itself.
This process of visual research results in abstract paintings which explore the tensions that occur when paintings are made and exhibited. For example: relationships between pictorial space and actual physical space in the form of depth on the picture surface; those between the formless and the rigidly controlled; and those between the traditions of painting and the image-making and abstract forms that occur beyond the gallery walls, in urban space.
Stephen Riley grew up in Manchester and is now based in the South of England.
*A selection of photographic works can be seen on Stephen Riley's Facebook ‘wall’ page - see 'Links'
Stephen Riley Phd - Artist
Contemporary British Fine Art
Abstract Painting
www.stephenrileyart.com
Stephen Riley is a contemporary British artist. He uses both painting and photography*. This site is devoted largely to his paintings.
His work is concerned with the language of painting in the context of its relationship with other forms of visual representation, the expectations conferred upon it by its history and practical medium of painting itself.
This process of visual research results in abstract paintings which explore the tensions that occur when paintings are made and exhibited. For example: relationships between pictorial space and actual physical space in the form of depth on the picture surface; those between the formless and the rigidly controlled; and those between the traditions of painting and the image-making and abstract forms that occur beyond the gallery walls, in urban space.
Stephen Riley grew up in Manchester and is now based in the South of England.
*A selection of photographic works can be seen on Stephen Riley's Facebook ‘wall’ page - see 'Links'
Stephen Riley Phd - Artist
Contemporary British Fine Art
Abstract Painting
www.stephenrileyart.com