Bridget Riley

Bio

• Wikipedia
• Tate bio
• Venice Biennale bio

Writing / Speaking

• "At the End of my Pencil"
• Bridget Riley speaks about her work
  transcription:
  "rhythm and repetition are at the root of movement. they create a situation within which the most simple basic forms become visually active. by massing them and repeating them they become more fully present. reputation acts as a sort of amplifier for visual events which seen singularly would hardly be visible. but to make these basic forms release the full visual energy within them, they have to breathe, as it were, to open and close, or to tighten up and relax. a rhythm that is alive has to do with changing pace and feeling how the visual speed can expand and contract, sometimes go slower and sometimes go faster. the whole thing must live."

Works

• In the UK national collection
• At the MoMA
• Movement in Squares (1961)
• Current (1964)
• Cataract III (1967)
• Shadow Play (1990)
• Composition with Circles (2003)