Julia Ritson
Exhibitions
Winter/Spring Salon 2023
Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/07/2023 to 30/09/2023
The 'Winter/Spring Salon' will be a rotating and updating group exhibition throughout Winter 2023.... Read More >
New Works | 2023
Scott Livesey Galleries, 12/04/2023 to 06/05/2023
Julia RitsonSurrounded by paintings as gorgeous and, frankly, covetable as Julia Ritson’s, how much thinking are we obliged to undertake? Must we force ourselves to come up with something difficult to say, because they’re abstracts? Can’t we just nod, tears prickling in our eyes, as we recall the beauty of what came over Paul Klee in Tunisia?Something so deep, so gentle is entering into me; I feel it and that gives me a feeling of certainty, without effort. Colour has me. I no longer need reach out for it. It has me forever and knows it. That is the meaning of this happy hour. Colour and I are one. Klee wrote these words in hi... Read More >
Autumn Selection
Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/04/2021 to 08/05/2021
A rotating selection of artworks. ... Read More >
Julia Ritson 2021
Scott Livesey Galleries, 10/02/2021 to 03/03/2021
There are two ways in which the grid functions to declare the modernity of modern art. One is spatial, the other temporal.In the spatial sense, the grid states the autonomy of the realm of art. In the flatness that results from its coordinates, the grid is the means of crowding out the dimensions of the real and replacing them with the lateral spread of a single surface. In the overall regularity of itsorganization, it is the result not of imitation, but of aesthetic decree.In the temporal dimension, the grid is an emblem of modernity by being just that: the form that is ubiquitous in the art of the modernist century. By discovering... Read More >
Grid Paintings 25 Years
Scott Livesey Galleries, 07/03/2018 to 29/03/2018
THE INFORMATION GRIDSOF JULIA RITSONHannah B Higgins, 2017The Spectre is the Reasoning Power in Man, & when separated From Imagination and closing itself as in steel and in a Ratio Of the Things of Memory, It thence frames Laws & Moralities To destroy Imagination, the Divine Body, by Martyrdoms & Wars. (William Blake, Jerusalem, III, 1804-1820)In his poem Jerusalem, the British poet and engraver William Blake appears to be demonizing reason in clear terms, “The Spectre is the Reasoning Power.” Reason, in Blake’s account, brackets imagination, “the Divine Body,” by narrowing life down to “the Thin... Read More >
The Salon
Scott Livesey Galleries, 13/06/2015 to 25/07/2015
'The Salon'This unique exhibition will showcase a large and diverse collection of artworks and artefacts by artists that we represent, private collectors and works in stock and will rotate throughout June/July.Please note that the website will continue to be up-dated over the next few days.'The Salon' will be on view between 13 June to 25 July 2015... Read More >
New Works
Scott Livesey Galleries, 05/02/2014 to 01/03/2014
Australian modernist paintings are what interests Julia Ritson. Using these works as triggers she lovingly re-experiences the paintings and the emotional responses they elicit. By reducing the paintings to a grid format she is able to focus on the play of colour and composition alongside the enjoyment of a diverse and random range of subjects and techniques. ... Read More >
