My paintings are mostly of pop stars. They aren’t a comment on pop culture or society’s relationship with celebrities - I just love pop music - but if I am doing something with my art, I think I’m probably working out what I can do with paint and how I can represent the human form with it. I’ve little idea how my paintings will turn out and am constantly surprised and amused with what I end up with.
Features
Creative Boom
Exhibitions
Come As You Really Are (an Artangel installation) - July - October 2024
Selected for the inaugral Manchester Open at HOME - 2020
a darren riley painting - Bury Art Musuem, Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
a darren riley record stall - The Keep, Clitheroe, 2018
Secret 7” - Somerset House 2015