Exhibtion: Bridget Riley: Venice and Beyond, Paintings 1967-1972

Bridget Riley: Venice and Beyond, Paintings 1967 - 1972, Grave Gallery, Sheffield 

"Bridget Riley is one of Britain’s most important and accomplished abstract painters, with a career spanning six decades. This new exhibition at the Graves Gallery will focus on a breakthrough moment in the development of the artist’s work: the introduction of colour.

Following her first major abstract works in the early 1960s, Riley began to incorporate colour into her painting in 1967 by using a limited palette in works such as Rise 1(1968), a highlight of Sheffield’s collection. The adoption of colour came to inform Riley’s developments throughout her ensuing career, adding a rich new dimension to her investigation of visual contrast and perception.

The exhibition will chronicle this unique moment of change, showcasing a carefully selected group of paintings and studies from 1967–72, which situate Rise 1 within the context of works made during this period." - http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/graves-gallery/exhibitions/current/bridget-riley-venice-and-beyond-paintings-1967-1972

Rise 1, Bridget Riley

My experience of the Bridget Riley exhibition at the Graves Gallery was slightly disappointing. The work featured in the exhibition was mainly featuring her lined pieces; I was hoping to see some more of her colourful and more patterned work. Despite this the exhibition did feature some of her drawing which showed some of the construction and notes on her work, something I was actually really found of, being able to see how the artist worked to produce the work. I was also drawn to the idea of the artist meticulously working on such precise scale something I would like to look at doing in my own work.