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Tuesday Riddell

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Tuesday is a London based artist working with the endangered craft of Japanning lacquer.  She graduated with a first class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2015 and subsequently undertook the Painter-Stainer Decorative Surfaces Fellowship at the same institution. She was awarded a Cockpit Arts / Radcliffe Craft Development Award in 2019.

Her work has since been featured internationally in solo and group exhibitions with Messums Gallery (2023), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2021), Steve Turner LA (2023) among others. 

Tuesday creates jewel-like lacquer works contrasting rich blacks with gold and silver leaf.  Her works are inspired by nature, seasons and the forest floor captured in the medium of the 17th-century craft of Japanning. Taking viewers to the enchanting realm of the forest floor, offering a glimpse into the nocturnal world, where the intricate cycles of life and death unfold.