Frith Street Gallery

b. 1959, Northampton, England

One of the most distinctive voices in British contemporary photography, John Riddy’s practice exists in a singular relationship to a particular photographic inheritance. His photographs are meditations on the individuality and poetry of certain places. His subject matter is broad – ranging from the unassuming domestic interior to images of Renaissance or Modernist architecture and the specific qualities of certain city spaces. Time, atmosphere, spatial illusion and cultural histories are compressed and extended in pictures that aim to defeat our expectations of photographic descriptions.

A solo exhibition of John Riddy’s work is planned at Frith Street Gallery in March 2009. Riddy’s series Views from Shin-Fuji was shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2006 and The FOKUS Foto Kunst Stadtforum Innsbruck in 2007. His recent work has been included in Utopia at the Museu Berado, Lisbon, Of People and Places at The University of Massachusettes, Ruination at The Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham and Where Are We? Questions of Landscape at Graves Art Gallery Sheffield and Plymouth City Museum and Gallery. Riddy’s works are held in major collections both in Britain and abroad including: Tate, The Government Art Collection, Arts Council England, The Victoria and Albert Museum and The Rubell Family Collection.

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