This week we had Bill Riley as our lecture, Bill Riley is a painter and has been painting for over 30 years now. His process varies and depends on how he feels. He stated that it gets boring, at times, which leads him to use different painting tools and experiment.
Bill is also interested in the static nature of a painting. Frequency is an instillation that explores how we perceive colour and movement within painting. Bill used a CMYK mixing system. “The CMYK colour process is a subtracting colour model, used in colour printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some colour printing; Cyan, magenta, yellow and black” – Web Definitions. He used the CMYK process to see the way people perceive colour.
Bill talked about the influence of documentary films about famous artists such as Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso, and the way the artists seemed to be ‘puppets’ in these films, which were supposed to celebrate and explain their practice. Bill related to this idea of from his bad experience as a commissioner, where the people who fund it take the freedom of the artist away. Bill has since become a socialist. Bill describes a socialist as “not a communist, it is more about treating people equally”. This lead him to his more recent project called The 422 project”
The 422 project is Bills new focus, using recycled and waste materials, rather than expensive fine art materials. He collects left over card from packaging companies, and left over paint. By doing so he touches on conservational Issues such as recycling. Bill paints each individual piece of card and arranges them in stacks. The 422 project is interactive and members of the public are encouraged to come into the gallery and arrange the coloured sheets of card in what ever way they want. By doing so, this portrays painting as a form of sculptural practise in some way. Overall I thought his lecture about was all right could of at least brought in some of his works his did to show our class but allgoods.
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