Today I entered my painting ‘Portrait
of my Father’, shown above, into the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2016.
Please keep your fingers crossed for me!
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Friday, 20 May 2016
Priley Riley, Setting up the degree show- day 1, 20th May 2016
Today was the first day of setting up the degree
show. The first photo above shows roughly what my degree show space looked like
at the start of the day, with furniture and student work around, and wire,
nails and blue-tack over the walls. I have removed wire from, filled holes in
and sanded down and painted all walls. I also got a few smaller jobs done like
giving my plinths another coat of paint and cleaning the mannequin stands that
my knitted scarves will be displayed on. I'm happy with how things are going so
far (see the second photo)...
Friday, 15 April 2016
Priley Riley, Exhibitions and other news
The above photos provide the details of
two exhibitions that my work will be in this summer (one in Leicestershire and
the other in London). Everyone is welcome to come along.
In addition, Loughborough
University has put together an online degree show catalogue, so I’ve included a
link to my profile on this website for anyone interested: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/degree-show-16/fineart/studentcatalogue/paula-riley/
Finally, I am pleased to
announce that I have accepted an offer to study an MA in Fine Art at the Winchester
School of Art, University of Southampton. It’s a year-long course starting this
September.
Priley Riley, Oil Pastel Drawings in University Exhibition, March 2016
Last month I did a couple of oil pastel drawings of me
and my bearded dragon Zeus, shown in the above photos. These are on oil pastel
paper approximately 50cm x 60cm in size, and were part of an exhibition held at
Loughborough University between the 15th and 18th of March
2016.
Monday, 14 March 2016
Priley Riley, Lino Prints, February- March 2016
I’ve recently been producing
lino prints. I have 11 prints like the black and white work shown above, as
well as 8 prints that are in progress as they are being built up gradually with
layers of prints in different colours. I hope to sell these prints at my degree
show to raise money for Rainbow Rabbits, which provides care to previously
neglected/ sick/ very elderly rabbits. The rabbit depicted in the prints,
called Otis, was cared for by Rainbow Rabbits.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Priley Riley, An update on my work, February 2016
Since
my last post I have been fortunate enough to visit galleries in England,
Sweden, Denmark and Italy. In particular, I would recommend Denmark’s National
Gallery and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, and the Accademia Gallery in Venice, Italy.
In
terms of making artwork, I have mainly focused on producing watercolour
paintings, such as the one shown below of my dad. In addition, I completed my
9000 word/ 58 page dissertation for my degree last month, which discusses
whether art documentation can simultaneously
be considered a form of art through artist self-publishing.
My degree show is in June this year, so I have been
busy producing artwork and doing a considerable amount of research, mainly into
Post-Conceptualism, Hyperrealism and Photorealism, the Renaissance
artists, artists that have won major art competitions, and any other areas of
art that interest and inspire me. At the moment, my plan for the degree show is
to produce and display a variety of drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture,
etc. I aim to provide regular updates on my work for the degree show as it
progresses, and I will also give other areas of my blog an update.
Finally, I am keeping an eye out for further art
competitions to enter.
Saturday, 17 October 2015
Priley Riley, The Ultimate Edible Masterpiece of 2015, October 2015
Last month I entered The Ultimate
Edible Masterpiece of 2015, a competition run by the Art Fund. The idea was to
re-create a famous work of art using food to raise money for galleries and
museums. I chose to make and enter a satsuma version of Michelangelo’s The Creation
of Adam (shown in the photo above). I was really happy to receive a phone call
from the Art Fund, on the 13th of October, to say that this had been
chosen as the winning entry by judges Frances Quinn (Great British Bake Off winner); Rowley Leigh (chef,
restaurateur and journalist); and Jonathan Jones (The Guardian's art critic). I’ve
added some links below to some wonderful articles on the Art Fund competition
so far:
The Art Fund:
The BBC:
The Guardian:
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