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An abstract oil painting of irregularly repeating horizontal lines in cream, green, lilac and orange. An abstract oil painting of irregularly repeating horizontal lines in cream, green, lilac and orange.

Bridget Riley, Rise 1, 1968 © Bridget Riley 2022. All Rights Reserved

Bridget Riley, Rise 1, 1968 © Bridget Riley 2022. All Rights Reserved

Bridget Riley, Rise

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Graves Gallery

Don’t miss this huge, dazzling abstract painting by one of Britain’s greatest artists.  

 

Bridget Riley came to prominence in the early 1960s with her black and white Op Art works. She introduced colour into her paintings in the late 1960s, first using coloured greys and then pure colour like in Rise I.

Visual sensation is at the heart of Riley’s work, which is inspired by nature even though her painting is completely abstract.

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*** The library lift to the Graves Gallery is currently out of order. Step free access is available through the Arundel Gate entrance***

Graves Gallery

(Above the Central Library)

Surrey Street

Sheffield

S1 1XZ

Bridget Riley, Rise 1, 1968 © Bridget Riley 2022. All Rights Reserved.

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