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FROM THE ARCHIVE 2015: Photographing Girls

FILM HERE: https://vimeo.com/134260228

ARTLICKS FESTIVAL LONDON : EXHIBITION, SCREENING, ARTIST TALK, KISS & TELL TOUR

The proxy of looking is the authority to represent someone else in the act of looking. We are being sold a story that has been premised on pipe dreams and illusion. As Laura Mulvey states ‘the male viewpoint controls the viewing within the image and sets the spectator’s looking position’. In a world in which sexual attractiveness is built on subjective preferences, instead we see a flow of carefully constructed repetitive tropes, when a wider range of images could potentially free us to construct our own desires.

‘The hope that we might draw from history is that clear-eyed individuals can see beyond what is socially acceptable to what is morally right. If we get used to questioning even what is universally accepted, we might be able to avoid getting used to social norms that are well past their use by date.’ Julian Baggini (2015)

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 2017: ‘Toilet Humour’ Artist Led Walk, Performance & (litter-acy) Broadcast for Margate Bookie Festival @ Turner Contemporary 2017

The Truimph of Bullshit by T.S. Eliot read (rather aloud) by artist  Julia Riddiough  https://soundcloud.com/bookie-podcast for Margate Bookie Festival Turner Contemporary 2017 alongside Journeys With The Wasteland exhibition

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From The Archive 2014

Opera Rose Jonathan Gabb @ A Brooks Art

Watch the documentary here : https://vimeo.com/584470432

London based artist Jonathan Gabb’s sculptural paintings confound with every turn and corner. Gabb’s three-dimensional paintings combine acrylics with PVA glues to make unique forms. The eponymous title of the show at A Brooks Art Opera Rose refers to an electric pink acrylic paint. A paint colour whose name fascinates and is pink!, very pink! and very bright; however this work is an abstract and complex investigation into the layering of colour, light and form within space. This new work was installed in a former Victorian florist and fruiterer, a gallery in Hoxton Street London, A Brooks Art, a site-specific response to this regenerated space.

Critic Helen Sumpter suggests in her recent essay on Gabb: ‘It’s almost as if Gabb had taken something of the cool colour field paintings of Barnet Newman and turned them into something like the gestural action paintings of Jackson Pollock… These extraordinary artworks could also be seen as somewhat flighty but if they’ve become sculpture, paintings should at least stay fixed in their final form, shouldn’t they? Gabb’s paintings have no reticence in turning that convention upside down.’

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A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to be tied up

Mae West

From The Archive May 2012: Julia Riddiough Artist Life Tips # 15 for The KentishTowner Newspaper, London.

From The Archive May 2012: Julia Riddiough Artist Life Tips # 15 for The KentishTowner Newspaper, London.

1. You’ve got to Speculate to Accumulate in this life.

2. Cross Hatch, Pollinate & never turn down a ‘Cut & Shut.’

3. Always be Convivial, Cordial & Condusive.

4. Asymetrical always looks good. Just don’t develop a bump!

5. Go to the Edge of your Ability & then jump into the Abyss.

6. Make sure you have an Entrance & Exit Strategy – First

impressions count & you never know when you might need a quick getaway!

7. Be circumspect ‘A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to be tied up!’

Full project with images: https://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2012/05/01/life-tips-15-julia-riddiough-artist/

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‘Mantra’ Artist Book Project by Julia Riddiough

A residency project exploring art, yoga and ecology in an alpine desert location in a national park in Spain, investigating the connections between walking, meditation, mantra, colour and chakras. Drawing on Raja Yoga principles whilst walking in nature on seven different occasions; linking the Bija (seed) mantras focusing on one of the seven chakras found in the body whilst simultaneously visualising its corresponding colour. Mantra a walking meditation engaging the senses on the land, in nature.

A continuous cycle of walking and contemplation engaging the wheels of energy created by each of the seven chakras from the root to the crown of the head that include grounding, creativity, power, balance, self-expression, imagination and connection. Mantra is an artist book recording these walks and can be used to create your own walking meditations in the landscape over seven days over seven walks.

Residency: Julia Riddiough Joya Art & Ecology, Spain. Dec/Jan 2017/18

Photo Credit, Opening Landscapes: Simon Beckmann

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 2018: ‘Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’, The Wasteland Research Group, Turner Contemporary Margate, Kent, UK.                          

WATCH HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRZ8QmTDDYM&list=PLzx7cnQ1LlRZhkMkjktUP5CeW3wmsXwKb&index=7

“On Margate Sands. I can connect Nothing with nothing.”  T.S.Eliot                      

Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’ is an exhibition exploring the significance of T.S. Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' through the visual arts; an innovative three-year project, bringing members of the community (The Waste Land Research Group) and Turner Contemporary together to develop and create this exhibition.The starting point is T. S. Eliot’s famous poem, 'The Waste Land' (1922), parts of which were written whilst Eliot was convalescing in Margate. He arrived in a fragile state, physically and mentally, and worked on 'The Waste Land' sitting in the Nayland Rock shelter on Margate sands looking out to sea.

The poem was published the following year, and proved to be a pivotal and influential modernist work, reflecting on the fractured world in the aftermath of the First World War as well as Eliot’s own personal crisis. The Waste Land Research Group was formed through an open call by Turner Contemporary.

Through weekly meetings, discussions, talks, workshops, walks, research trips, studio visits and individual inquiry, the group developed their own methods for making decisions together, deciding on content and artworks. The exhibition foregrounds the multiple perspectives of those involved. In doing so, it mirrors the form of the poem, where Eliot juxtaposes many different voices and references; discussing personal connections between art, poetry and life.This series of artworks created in Margate for ‘Journeys with the ‘Waste Land’ at Turner Contemporary and developed during the project research period from 2015 to 2018 explores T.S. Eliot the person and The Waste Land poem from a range of different perspectives including the exhibition and performance of four works that address this complex poem and the quixotic poet.

https://turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/journeys-with-the-wasteland/

Shelter as Refuge (2018) Julia Riddiough                                        

Photograph, Black and White, 594 x 891 Unframed Cotton Photo Rag 308gsm                                   

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Social Permaculture Spain March 2021

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{Life is not a rehearsal}

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