Bridget Riley: Studies 198495

About Alexandra TommasiniNatalia Naish

Natalia Naish has worked as an Archivist for Bridget Riley since 2012 and is a writer. Alexandra Tommasini has been an Archivist for Bridget Riley since 2012 having previously worked at museums in the UK USA and Italy. Robert Kudielka is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and a curator. He is a noted scholar of the works of Bridget Riley and has published numerous books on and with the artist. Bridget Riley CH CBE (b.1931 London) was celebrated early in her career as a pioneer of Op art and her early works in the early 1960s featured highly geometric black-and-white patterns. She has worked with colour since the mid-1960s. Though her work is thoroughly abstract Riley was hugely influenced by the work of the Pointillist artist Georges Seurat. This is often visible in the colour palette of her works though her palettes often took inspiration from her travels (eg to Egypt Italy). She has also written about artists (Old Masters and modern/contemporary artists alike) and curated exhibitions at London's Hayward Gallery and National Gallery. Her work is widely collected by the world's greatest museums (eg MoMA Tate MFA Boston Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) and others across the UK and USA as well as the UK's Government Art Collection. Now 90 she is still working as a painter and printmaker.