Bridget Riley
1 portrait of Bridget Riley
© Jillian Edelstein / Camera Press
Bridget Riley
by Jillian Edelstein
chromogenic print, 14 August 2000
19 3/8 in. x 14 1/4 in. (493 mm x 363 mm)
Purchased, 2001
Photographs Collection
NPG x88992
Artistback to top
- Jillian Edelstein (1957-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 120 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Jillian Edelstein: In Focus (14 February 2009 - 19 April 2009)
- Contemporary Women Artists (22 October 2001 - 24 February 2002)
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Current affairs
The world celebrates the start of a new millennium. Britain marks the occasion with a series of new buildings and landmarks including the Millennium Dome, the London Eye, the Millennium Bridge, and the Millennium Stadium. While the Dome was criticised by politicians and the public for wasting public funds, and the Bridge suffered initial stability problems, other projects have become major landscape and public attractions.Art and science
Tate Modern opens as a national gallery of international modern art under the directorship of Nicholas Serota. The gallery, housed in the former Bankside Power Station, took the novel step of arranging the collection by theme rather than chronologically. As well as the collection galleries, Tate Modern has two large temporary exhibition spaces, and commissions installation projects for the enormous Turbine Hall.International
British troops are deployed to Sierra Leone to establish order and evacuate foreign nationals from the country torn apart by civil war. Following a ceasefire President Kabbah declared the civil war officially over in 2002.George W. Bush becomes President of the United States after a close election where he lost the popular vote, but won the electoral vote thanks to a controversial Supreme Court decision on Florida.
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