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12/2/2004

John Riddy

Frith Street Gallery, London

Skies
13 Febuary - 20 March 2004

Frith Street Gallery in pleased to announce the second of two consecutive exhibitions of new photographic works of John Riddy.

The exhibition Skies consists entirely of colour photographs of cloudscapes made over the past six months in London, Bogota, France and South Africa. For Riddy this subject presents the ultimate illusion. Clouds have an almost sculptural quality yet they are the most ephemeral form of sculpture - consisting of nothing but water vapour, air and light. These photographs are in part about finding order and composition where such notions can't possibly exist and where cultural significance lies completely in projection. Here colour functions as a spatial reference and through it one can detect layers of light and atmosphere. In this series Riddy again makes subtle allusion to art historical themes: to the paintings of Constable, Corot and Turner and also to the work of art as a diaristic moment - they are pictures of a seemingly inconsequential moment in time.
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John Riddy was born in 1959. He studied at Chelsea School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely both in Britain and abroad, recent exhibitions include 100 Great Photographs, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Cathedral and Camera, Baltic, Newcastle (2003). His large-scale photographic installation of Room 101 can be seen currently at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

For more information and images on John's work, please click on John Riddy.

Frith Street Gallery
59-60 Frith Street
London W1D 3JJ UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7494 1550
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7287 3733

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