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Stephen Riley
Dr Stephen Riley is an artist, writer and lecturer. Interests: the physical and cultural structures through which visual representations are made and made visible; the cultural uses and implications of spaces, images and media. Media: painting, photography, text. He has exhibited since 1990 including UK, China and Germany.
Reviews
Mike Marshall [23 September 2011]
A grey rectangle hovers mid-air in a black void. There is a hint of movement. Your eyes adapt and your mind begins to make sense of it. The grey rectangle is a translucent, frosted screen with images of smouldering undergrowth projected onto it from Read on…
ArtSway, Sway, New Forest, Hampshire
25 June - 29 August
Out of Sight [19 September 2011]
In earlier reviews posted here I have written about my and other artists’ dismay at the apparent lack of contemporary visual art in the Bournemouth-Poole conurbation. I stress 'apparent' because this is not to say that such work does Read on…
Wilkinson's Lower Car Park, Bournemouth
17 - 24 September 2011
MA Fine Art Show [12 September 2011]
MA Fine Art Degree Show, Winchester School of Art, September 2011 A review by Dr Stephen Riley I would not be the first to start a review of a degree show – in this case an MA show – with a few cautionary comments. There are Read on…
Winchester School of Art, Winchester
1 - 8 September 2011
Show and Tell and Landscape and Industry [31 July 2011]
Bournemouth and Poole are separate and separately administered towns. However, on most practical terms they form one large conurbation. One set of suburbs runs straight into the other with no noticeable gap. I was easily able to fit in trips to both Read on…
St Peters Hall and The Lighthouse, Bournemouth and Poole
15 April 2011 to 10 September 2011
Nature Abhors a Vacuum [28 July 2011]
Jane and Louise Wilson - Nature Abhors a Vacuum Hansard Gallery, Southampton. A review by Dr Stephen Riley The main and newest work in this show is a set of photographs taken in Pripyat, a town a short distance from the Chernobyl Read on…
Hansard Gallery, Southampton
16 July - 10 September 2011
The Recipe Exchange and Making is Connecting [20 June 2011]
The Recipe Exchange and Making is Connecting at Spacex Gallery, Exeter A Review by Dr Stephen Riley, June 2011 For those unfamiliar, Spacex Gallery is the leading contemporary art space in Exeter. The Recipe Exchange is an Read on…
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
14 May - 19 July 2011
KL99 - Recent Work by Chris Fraser [3 May 2011]
Chris Fraser KL99 – Recent Work at ArtWorks, Poole I saw a Facebook comment from Chris Fraser, lamenting the lack of interest in his show and asking if the Bournemouth/Poole conurbation was the worst place in the UK to be a contemporary Read on…
ArtWorks, Poole
22 April - 7 May 2011
North and South [31 July 2007]
‘North and South’ is a multi-site, multi-artist exhibition intended to examine the contemporary condition of the English national identity and encourage “a national cultural debate on contemporary society”. Named as it is and Read on…
Millais Gallery, John Hansard Gallery, City Art Gallery, Southampton
1 July – 23 September
Artsway Open 06 [1 February 2007]
In an acrylic case mounted on a plinth lies the severed head of a cow with an eruption of pink, red and grey emerging from behind it. This, one of the most immediately striking pieces in the show, is Rebecca Stevenson’s Pastorale. The way it is Read on…
Artsway, Sway
9 December – 11 February
Cover to Cover [21 November 2006]
The clichéd image of Bournemouth as a homely seaside town filled with bungalows and pensioners is becoming increasingly inappropriate. Already, it has a reputation as a regional clubbing capital; trendy apartments perforate the skyline; and a Read on…
Bournemouth Library, Bournemouth
28 October – 16 December
Ergin Çavusoglu: Point of Departure [31 May 2006]
(Insert artists correct name in first proof _ KB doesn't like it)It is a cliché of current times that ‘we are all members of a diaspora now’. Whether that stands close scrutiny is debatable. However, as the skies are criss-crossed Read on…
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
4 May – 17 June
Bridgette Ashton: I dream of Europe [3 January 2006]
The Russell-Cotes is part-museum, part-art gallery, and it houses the bequeathed collection of the Russell-Cotes family, who travelled the world in the era of the Grand Tour, collecting artefacts, sculpture and paintings. The first impression, Read on…
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth
22 October – 26 February
Laura Daly: Trail [18 August 2004]
The work is in three spaces, that can be read left to right. In the first is what looks like evidence from a forensic investigation. Daly discovered by chance that a mythical character, a will–o’–the–wisp named Laurence, was Read on…
Artsway, Hampshire
3 July ' 15 August
Bad Quality [3 April 2003]
The production of images through mechanical and digital technologies has long been associated with the pursuit of false perfection. Blemishes were first airbrushed and are now 'Photoshopped' out of existence. 'Bad Quality' explores the opposite end Read on…
Millais Gallery, Southampton
10 January – 1 February
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