London (Marylebone), 2008

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Riddy was born in Northampton in 1959. He studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art (1979–84) and began working with Frith Street Gallery (London) in 1993. He received the London Arts Board Artist’s Award in 1997 and attended the British School at Rome on a Rome Scholarship and Sargent Fellowship in 1998–99. Riddy undertook artist residences at ARCO Madrid and Durham Cathedral in 1999, and won the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award in 2000. In 2003, he was commissioned with artist Rachel Whiteread to produce Room 101 for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Places

England, London

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, tree, road, garden, signage, railing, road markings, lamp post, pavement

Materials & Techniques

photograph (as object name), colour photograph

Artist

John Riddy (1959 - )

Title

London (Marylebone), 2008

Edition

1/5

Date

2009

Medium

Archival pigment print

Dimensions

height: 72 cm, width: 93 cm (image)

Acquisition

Purchased from Frith Street Gallery, May 2009

Inscription

signed, dated and inscribed verso on backboard

Provenance

Frith Street Gallery, London

GAC number

18265