Ray Richardson (artist)

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Ray Richardson (born 1964) is a British painter. He lives and works in London.

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Ray Richardson
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Richardson in 2017.
Born1964
London
NationalityBritish
EducationSaint Martin's School of Art; Goldsmiths College
Known forPainting
AwardsBritish Council Award; BP Portrait Award

Biography

Richardson spent his childhood in the Woolwich Dockyard area. He graduated from Saint Martin's School of Art (1983–1984) and Goldsmiths College (1984–1987), [1] he won his first British Council Award in 1989 and the BP Portrait Award in 1990. At the same time, he began a long collaboration with three galleries: Boycott Gallery in Brussels, Galerie Alain Blondel in Paris and Beaux Arts gallery in London. Since 2016, he collaborates with the Zedes Art Gallery in Brussels.

Richardson paints observations of his world of working class southeast London. In 1993, the Telegraph Magazine commissioned him paintings and drawings of the world heavyweight champion boxer Lennox Lewis which were then offered by the magazine to and accepted by the National Portrait Gallery. [2]

Over time, he has depicted not only everyday scenes in southeast London but a larger social panorama, mixing criticism, humour and personal concerns. Richardson uses his very emblematic English Bull Terrier [3] as a metaphor or double [4] in his narration which takes places in urban or coastal landscapes, caravans and football fields.

Both filled with pictorial tradition (Titian, Goya, Hogarth, Hopper) and contemporary cultures (soul music, photography), his works are characterised by a formal closeness with cinema. Interested in Film noir movies amongst other genres of film, he tries "to combine the traditional stuff of painting with the cinematic ways of looking at things". Because of his subjects and the transposition of filmmaker techniques (close-up, horizontal formats, use of shadow to create drama), he has been dubbed by Lindsay MacCrae ( GQ magazine) as the "Martin Scorsese of figurative painting", [5] and Iain Gale ( The Independent ) stated: "There is a filmic quality in these works which proposes Ray Richardson as a David Lynch of canvas and paint." [6]

In 2014–2015, two of his works are part of Reality: Modern and contemporary British painting, an exhibition about the most influential painters from the last sixty years at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts [7] and the Walker Art Gallery, [8] alongside Francis Bacon, Ken Currie, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Paula Rego, George Shaw, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, etc.

In 2017, the young Belgian director, Nina Degraeve, dedicated a short documentary entitled "Our side of the water" to Richardson.

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group shows

Awards

Bibliography and media

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ↑ "Lennox Lewis ('Coiled Spring') - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "Man's best friend stars in artist Ray Richardson's new exhibition London's Top Dog". News Shopper. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Zimmer, William (15 August 1999). "ART; A Show That Starts With a Flexible View of the Figure". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  5. ↑ "Ray Richardson & Guy Denning". Wall Street International. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  6. ↑ The Independent, Ian Gaile, May 31, 1996, London.
  7. ↑ "REALITY: Modern & Contemporary British Painting / Exhibitions". scva.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  8. ↑ "REALITY - Modern and contemporary British painting including Bacon, Freud and Lowry - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
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