James Rielly
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James Malcolm Rielly is a Welsh artist living and working in France.[1] His paintings frequently take on absurd subject matter, and he has done a series of paintings depicting bedsheet ghost costumes.[2] He was born in 1956 in Wrexham.[1] [3] Rielly studied at the Gloucester College of Art & Design in Cheltenham and at Belfast College of Art.[1]
Rielly was associated with the group of artists known as the Young British Artists (YBAs).[4] In 1997 he exhibited with other YBAs in the Charles Saatchi-sponsored Sensation exhibition.[5]
In 2017, Rielly was one of the artists to sign onto Volta 13, the satellite art fair of Art Basel.[6]
