Michael Riley b. 1960

  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi photographer, video artist and documentary film-maker who was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative. His works focused upon Indigenous people's struggles in the wake of colonisation and explored themes related to religion, land and forms of social injustice.

Citations

  • Riley, M from unpublished interview with David Burnett on his inclusion in the Asia-Pacific triennial of contemporary art 2002, Queensland Art Gallery (2006), 'I wanted to tell stories’, Michael Riley: sights unseen exhibition webpage, National Gallery of Australia, Accessed 1/5/09.

    http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/RILEY/Default.cfm?MnuID=2

  • 'Michael Riley – artist’s page on Stills Gallery website’, Stills Gallery, Accessed 20/1/09.

    http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/artists/riley/

  • Mundine, D (2004), 'Obituary: Michael Riley’, RealTime, issue 63, Accessed 20/1/09.

    http://www.realtimearts.net/article.php?id=7617

  • Muirhead, J (2006), 'Empire: Michael Riley and Dreams of Return: Michael Buckley’, Artlink, vol. 19, no.3, Accessed 20/1/09.

    http://www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=28

  • Edwards, Dan (2007), 'Michael Riley: photographer & filmmaker – part 2: the films-buried histories’, RealTime, issue 77, Accessed 19/1/09.

    http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue77/8355

  • Webb, Brad (2000), 'Riley, Michael’, The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art & Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, VIC, p. 687, edited by S. Kleinert & M. Neale.

  • Edwards, Dan (2006), 'Michael Riley: photographer & filmmaker – part 1: spirit, land, image’, RealTime, issue 76, Accessed 19/1/09.

    http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue76/8257

  • Riley, M. in conversation with Perkins, H (2008), 'Michael Riley’, Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, edited by Perkins, H & Jones, J.

  • Croft, Brenda (2000), 'Beyond the pale: contemporary indigenous art: 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

  • Croft, Brenda (2004), 'Touching the sublime’, The Australian, September 2, p. 14.

  • Croft, Brenda (2006), 'Michael Riley’, 'Australian Indigenous Art Commission: commande publique d’art aborigene : Musee du quai Branly’, Art & Australia, Paddington, NSW, pp. 38-39.

  • Croft, Brenda (2006), 'Art Films’, Michael Riley: sights unseen exhibition webpage, National Gallery of Australia.

    http://nga.gov.au/exhibition/riley/Default.cfm?MnuID=2&GalID=8

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW