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James Rielly

James Rielly (Born 1956) is active/lives in United Kingdom.  James Rielly is known for Painting.

Born in Wales, James Rielly has worked in both Belfast and London and now lives and works in Toulouse, France.  He is represented in several major collections, including the Arts Council of England, UK, the Muse´e des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France, the Saatchi Collection, London, and the Tate Gallery, London.  He was appointed Professor of Painting at the Ecole Nationale Supe´rieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2006.

Included in the acclaimed exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, held at the Royal Academy in 1997, James Rielly paints deliberately ambiguous works which draw on the artist's dark humor.  Composed of images from books and magazines, greatly enlarged, Rielly's paintings often deal with the theme of childhood, blending the amusing, sinister and provocative. 

'The figures, guardians of the secret, seem near in body but light years away in mind.  For in their eyes it is oft   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3072 characters.]  Artist bio

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