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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.
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‘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
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
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
(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
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
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
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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