about revad

Revad is David Riley.

artist statement

Full artist statement as a printable pdf [163kb | vesion 1.1]

(Will print to both sides of a single A4 sheet and then fold to a tri-fold DL pamphlet - do not shrink to fit)

extract

“I am a black box, an abstract device evolved to hide the complexities within. Given the appropriate stimulus, I can be triggered to display a transient pop-up model of my inner self and disclose a little of what would otherwise remain secret.”

transcript of an interview

“An art process is something of an engineered course of action, fused by language inputted to something made, through carefully balanced models of communication. David Riley, the artist, arises from over thirty years of specialist experience and self-taught knowledge, the veracity of which invents an embedded and systematic creative practice.

So what happens after the duration of David's BA expires: does the 'system engineer' evolve to an artist having been taught 'how' for four years, or did he simply already know?”

Richard Taylor of a-n.co.uk © February 2010

Revad talks to Richard Taylor, editor of Degrees Unedited at a-n.co.uk.

features and editorial

a-n Magazine, May 2010 edition, 2010 Degrees (5Mb PDF) supplement, IT’S AN ADVENTURE, page 6.

education

BA (First Class Honours) Drawing for Fine Art Practice | Awarded by the University of Bath | (2010)

Post Graduate Certificates | Awarded by The Open University:

Software Developments for Networked Applications using JAVA | (2000)
Common Lisp Programming for Artificial Intelligence | (1998)

BA Mathematics/ Technology/ Computing | Awarded by The Open University | (1992)

HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Awarded by the IEE, IERE and DES | (1975)

books as art

All current books are self-published at blurb.com. Each book should be considered an art work rather than a conventional book. Revad sees the book as a highly appropriate and useful medium for recording a serial idea and the derived outcomes.

the book list

TRIARCLE monochrome components | (March 2010)

TRIARCLE colour components | (March 2010)

CIRCUARE monochrome components | (March 2010)

CIRCUARE colour components | (March 2010)

SQUANGLE monochrome components | (March 2010)

SQUANGLE colour components | (March 2010)

Shakespear’s Vowels | (April 2009)

Please click through to blurb to see a detailed preview of your chosen book.

future exhibitions

Negotiating. Looking for the right opportunities.

selected group exhibitions

11°; The Mulberry Building; Kembrey Park, Swindon, England | (June 2010)

Interface; the Post Modern gallery; Swindon, England | (April 2009)

Process, Surface and/or Abstraction; Swindon College School of Art; Swindon, England | (January 2009)

Free Radicals; Swindon College School of Art; Swindon, England | (May 2007)

virtual exhibitions

pixel, http://revad.redbubble.com | (July 2010 - current)

TRIARCLE components web pamphlet, http://triarcle.codedimages.com | (2010 - current)

CIRCUARE components web pamphlet, http://circuare.codedimages.com | (2010 - current)

SQUANGLE components web pamphlet, http://squangle.codedimages.com | (2010 - current)

Selected works, http://revad.com | (2003 - current)

Selected coded images, http://codedimages.com | (2006 - 2010 : closed)

circuare works, http://circuare.com | (December 2009 - January 2010 : closed)

Lines of Expression, on-line at the Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre | (18 - 25 May 2009)

Selected digital paintings, http://revad.redbubble.com | (2008 - 2009 : closed)

AEIOU : From The Prelude, http://codedimages.redbubble.com | (2008 - 2009 : closed)

30 Minute Studio, http://pissedpoetpics.com/dr.html | (2007 - 2008 : closed)

AEIOU : From The Prelude, http://www.photoboxgallery.com/CodedImages | (2008 : closed)

33,000 Transient Distortions, http://TransientDistortions.com | (2007 : closed)

Continuum, http://revad.imagekind.com | (June 2008 : closed)

Selected digital paintings, http://revad.imagekind.com | (2007 - 2008 : closed)

Selected coded images, http://codedimages.imagekind.com | (2007 - 2008 : closed)