Julia Ritson: Grid Paintings 25 Years
Scott Livesey Galleries
This well-presented artist book celebrates the oeuvre of Julia Ritson, who has been practicing the art of grid painting for 25 years. Texts by Hanna B Higgins, John Wardle and Joseph Brennan are followed by a visual spread of the artist’s mesmerising works in various colour schemes and tones. Ritson’s square and rectangular panels of geometric patterning, amid a network of freehand lines and edges, create pixel-like images that invoke contemplation and imagination from her audience to further explore what these representations hold.
Wardle notes, ‘Julia’s paintings are almost always small in scale, to appreciate them we must walk toward them. In doing so, this process is akin to walking toward and then into a small room.’