Pippa Ridley

My figurative paintings and collages combine playful imagery with darker themes- male and female sexuality, violence and decay. I explore the conflict between abstraction and representation. The scenes are a merging of myth, memory and imagination with recurring motifs from my birthplace in the Caribbean and gritty London interiors. My paint application competes for dominance with the narrative and I hope a dark humour comes through the chaos of shapes and colour.

Slade 1998-2002
Prince's Drawing School 2004-06

2013 Introducing, Quercus Gallery, Bath
2012 Threadneedle Art Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2011 "Big Deal-Sexy 100", London
2010 "Noise", Barbican ArtWorks Project Space, London
"Adrift", solo show, N16
Barbican Arts Group Open Exhibition, E17 (Prizewinner)
Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland
2009 "V" Thomas Williams Gallery, Bond Street, London
2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, Jerwoos Space, London
2007 "Four Painters", Artonomy Fine Arts, Cornwall
"A Fine Line", Artonomy Fine Arts
2006 Discerning Eye (invited artist)
Royal Academy Summer Show