Jade Riley

Jade is a Critical Art Writer, Art Historian, Creative Art Photographer and Teacher of contextual understanding in Contemporary Art 1950-Present. A Graduate of Art History and Theory from the University of Essex and continuing her studies at Plymouth University. She centers her contemporary art on her own "Kin-AESTHETIC process" of photography; believing in the arts value emanating from the psycho-physicality of being behind the camera,whilst also privileging a photo-conceptualist approach, brazenly forcing a quest for context through her enigmatic titles of her work; with an eye for figuration and portraiture, although using many different mediums to distort a static realism. Jade describes, analysis, manipulates & distorts using a chiaroscuro style; physically creating the hyper-real subject which we subliminally decipher through cultural signification, which is a preferable cognitive process to us as human beings; suspending reality. Provoking feelings of introspection, hyper-hysteria, humour, irony & starkness. An essence of Simulacrum. Photography is quoting light, however creating an image or heightening its themes create a voice for the image, expressing a thought or feeling; the aroma or flavor of a feeling- living onomato...

University of Essex- Art History BA with Honours
University of Plymouth - PGCE DTLLS / MA