Frith Street Gallery is delighted to present Winter Landscape, an exhibition of new photographs of London by John Riddy. In this exhibition John Riddy returns to documenting London. His previous images of the capital focused on the stillness and permanence of surfaces and architecture, avoiding the inclusion of people and movement and rendering the city as a series of empty stages. By contrast, in Winter Landscape Riddy frames and includes temporal elements that traditionally make up a wider landscape view. The sky, the Thames, parks and railways, all appear as changing backdrops, often for moments of fleeting social engagement. Where...
Frith Street Gallery is delighted to present Winter Landscape, an exhibition of new photographs of London by John Riddy.
In this exhibition John Riddy returns to documenting London. His previous images of the capital focused on the stillness and permanence of surfaces and architecture, avoiding the inclusion of people and movement and rendering the city as a series of empty stages. By contrast, in Winter Landscape Riddy frames and includes temporal elements that traditionally make up a wider landscape view. The sky, the Thames, parks and railways, all appear as changing backdrops, often for moments of fleeting social engagement. Where previously the urban stage was unpopulated, here we see football played in a local park, a bustling press conference outside parliament or a crowd gathering on New Year’s Eve. By picturing these scenes, the artist seeks to create a more complex description of place and one that is more variable and harder to resolve in the frame.
