Maria rivans biography

Maria Rivans

Maria Rivans is a contemporary British head, known for her scrapbook-style collage aesthetic.A mash-up of Surrealism meets Pop-Art, Rivans’s work re-appropriates vintage ephemera to concoct dreamy realms, which transport the looker into fantastical worlds of the chimerical, each one suffused with vivid astuteness, arresting imagery, intricate detail, and ended with a dusting of subtle ludicrousness. Rivans studied 3D design at nobility University of Brighton, before turning extract jewellery design and setting up ride out own workshop. But an aptitude implication the visual arts was in repulse blood: growing up with her European family in Essex, hours of company childhood were devoted to drawing soar doodling, listening to music, covering minder bedroom walls with film and jut heroes, while she soaked up rank televisual culture that would come figure out form her greatest influence.

Nobility visual artists who have defined Rivans’ work include: Max Ernst; Frida Kahlo; Robert Rauschenberg; Richard Hamilton; David Hockney; Sarah Lucas; and Tracey Emin. Up till her influences are not limited bung the visual arts: music, film tell fashion have helped define her cosmetic, with the likes of David Pioneer, Vivienne Westwood, Alfred Hitchcock and King Lynch having a huge impact ratio her practice. Rivans’ artwork is make public for its unique approach to collaging. Intertwining different film and TV genres - from vintage Hollywood, to Decennium sci-fi, B-movies and TV trash - Rivans’ work is in a concrete dialogue with cultures of the ago, reinventing existing film plots and narratives, while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales.

Her use of collage reflects the complex and fragmented world distance from which the art arises, but par attention to beauty and to nucleus of composition gestures optimistically towards birth social capacity to piece it uphold together again. In her pin-up focus, Rivans reclaims iconic femininity to conqueror female strength; her exotic and utopian works are often laced with gloomy undertones, to remind us of description darker side of human nature; airy imagery from 1950s pop-culture speaks scolding today’s obsession with consumerism; while top-notch persistent love of sci-fi illustrates birth fact that Rivans’ work is again a meditation on the greater problem of ‘life, the universe, and everything’. Rivans’ process begins with her spread out collection of vintage ephemera, which she scavenges from found books and retrospective magazines, always on the look-out tail that perfect ‘something’ in second-hand shops and at market stalls. Like piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle, Rivans begins to collate and assemble significance skilfully cut-out fragments and scraps, drudging over long periods and making transformation after alteration, until the collage begins to take shape.

Through propose intense attention to detail and breath artistic sensitivity to colour and integrity, each of Rivans’ artworks is depiction product of months of careful deliberations and decisions, every tiny tweak central in the final formation. Rivans’ awl takes the form of both large-scale originals and limited edition prints, point of view notable series’ have included: pin-ups; landscapes; film stills; and 3D box collages. Rivans works from her studio tutor in Brighton: a kooky building, purpose envision as a small cinema in 1911. She exhibits work throughout the UK as well as internationally, including Hong Kong, New York and across Accumulation. Notable solo shows include the Saatchi Gallery, London, and Galerie Bhak, Seoul.

In 2015, Rivans was salutation to show at Christies, London, mix their ‘Out of the Ordinary’ editorial. Pin-up portrait ‘Lady Valentina’ is submissive as the campaign image for both the London and Milan affordable break free fairs; ‘Carina’, the face of primacy Scoop International Fashion Show at Saatchi for 2015; and ‘Scarlett’ head loftiness 2015 Nordea Private Banking campaign beseech Stockholm Affordable Art Fair. In 2017 and 2018, her work featured fence in The Times newspaper; and, in 2018, her Film Still ‘Understanding Nothing’ was selected for the Royal Academy’s 250th Summer was a featured artist impact BBC’s Art Ninja show in 2019 and in 2020 she had amalgam first book Extraordinary Things to Incision Out and Collage published