Articles by Adrian Riley
Founder of Scarborough-based design studio Electric Angel (formerly of Bradford) and co-founder of Creative Coast - the North Yorkshire coast creative industries network. Before that I worked in education, marched, played drums, studied at Leeds College of Art, built lego and co-created meditative spiritual multimedia thingys. But not necessarily in that order.
Stroll along Scarborough’s South Bay promenade past The Spa mid-morning and, whether it be a gorgeous summers day or freezing winter rain, there’s chance you might see a clutch of figures emerge from of of the cheerful beach huts and run into the sea…
‘Retail Guru’ Mary Portas is behind a new government-backed initiative to regenerate our high streets. ‘Town Teams’ creating more opportunity for indy retailers and creating a local flavour are the hoped for outcomes. It’s a nice idea but one that’s strangely familiar to many Yorkshire towns…
Do you remember your first trip the cinema on your own? Mine was with my best mate, Alan, to The Odeon in Bradford. It was triple-bill of all three Star Wars movies which places me …
What makes the place you live something special? Is there a time of year or an event when someone can visit and realise this couldn’t/wouldn’t happen anywhere else?
My adopted home town of Scarborough is, to …
Scarborough resident Adrian Riley encourages you to look under the rock and dive into the cultural life of the UK’s first seaside resort.
Coastival takes in over 100 gigs exhibitions, concerts, workshops, performances and projections in just 3 days. Adrian Riley is biased as you’ll read, but he thinks you’d be daft not to come to Scarborough 18-20th February.
A guest post from Adrian Riley @electric_angel . . . always liked Scarborough. Glad to know you can get a decent espresso now as well as brilliant fish and chips.
What can you expect when you turn a tiny seaside art gallery into a Kerouac-inspired poetry venue for the night? Nobody knows, and that’s half the fun…
Avant-garde. Now there’s a phrase which has been used and abused over the decades. I’ve seen it applied to revisionist be-bop, shoddily executed paintings in Dulux and the kind of performance that has any sane …
Adrian Riley went to an office with an eclectic assortment of art, who would work in an office like this? And more importantly will they still be there next week?
Adrian Riley gives us yet another reason to think of leaving our urban terrances, tower blocks and rat holes. The sea air is one, but the connectivity is second to none…
Adrian Riley discusses cognitive mapping and how we miss out on hidden gems on our doorstep. How do you find your way around the place you live – do you stray from the path well tread?
We’re not feeding you a line, but do take the bait and go see some art in a rather unusual location
It’s a slightly overcast Friday in June – not quite beach weather but the surf must be good judging by the number of heads I can see bobbing in the sea through our studio window…
So you’ve got the art-buying bug, but the recession has caused some tightening of the purse strings… well South Street Gallery in Scarborough might just have the solution.
