Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley: Painting and Preparatory Work 1961-2004 offers New Zealanders the rare opportunity to see a rich and comprehensive collection of work by one of the world’s truly great artists.

Since the 1960s, when she burst onto the international art scene with her visually-charged black and white paintings, Bridget Riley has consistently produced work which has entranced viewers and kept her at the forefront of contemporary painting. Working with a simple vocabulary of colours and abstract shapes, often on a massive scale, Riley produces paintings that shimmer and dance, flash and burn, generating sensations of light, movement and space. Her paintings are celebrated for their ability to engage the viewer’s sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting.

City Gallery Wellington is the sole New Zealand venue for this major retrospective. The exhibition has been organised and toured by the British Council in partnership with the artist Bridget Riley, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and City Gallery Wellington. The show follows Riley’s hugely popular retrospective at the Tate Britain, London, in 2003. The exhibition was critically acclaimed, with reviewers describing the exhibition as ‘electrifying’ and as ‘One of the most coherent, individual and powerful bodies of work in contemporary art.’

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Bridget Riley: Paintings and Preparatory Work 1961-2004