Richie Culver
Richie Culver (b.1979, Hull, UK) is a British multidisciplinary artist focusing mainly on Painting, Photography and Sound work. He studied painting in the MA programme at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2023.
Born in Hull in the North of England, Culver left school with no qualifications to work in a factory making caravans. His practice encompasses diverse elements that range from painting, sculpture and photography to digital performance. Within this, Culver’s work is largely biographical wrestling with aspects of contemporary masculinity, the class system and the digital lens through which we live our lives.
A large proportion of Culver’s practice lies in his antagonistic relationship with technology, the ultimate impermanence of social media and the effects upon human interaction and linguistics, alongside personal and cultural memory. In this regard, much of the material for Culver’s works are formed from images collected on his phone including mundane mobile photography, google translate and notes apps screenshots containing excerpts of conversations, phrases and information. These screenshots are then blown up and printed on canvas, ultimately forming a visual record of an inner monologue that is fractured and at times disconnected. For example, short phrases translated into different languages and obscured by overpainting creates a visual metaphor for the quick ease at which these digital innovations create a superficial human connection that is ultimately alienated from true apperception.
This tone of alienation also bleeds into other thematic elements in Culver’s practice including the interrogation of masculinity. Motifs including fatherhood, love, sex, rejection and abandonment combine to project a brutal honesty about the vulnerability of male emotions. Although often done with humor, these elements have an unnerving sincerity that forces us to engage in a more nuanced perspective towards contemporary masculinity.
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Richie Culver | Exit Strategy
At Carlos/Ishikawa - London 20 Jan - 17 Feb 2024Galerie Kandlhofer was invited by CARLOS/ISHIKAWA to be part of CONDO LONDON 2024 to show a solo presentation of British artist Richie Culver. CONDO takes its name from ‘condominium’ and is a large-scale collaborative exhibition of international galleries. Host galleries share their spaces with visiting galleries either by co-curating an...Read more -
Richie Culver & Hannah Perry | Body Shop
23 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024A Vauxhall Corsa on the M62, somewhere between Chester and Hull On the work of Richie Culver and Hannah Perry by Adam Carr Prior to being invited to write this text, I had often considered the mutual and partnered tendencies of Richie Culver and Hannah Perry’s work, not least for...Read more -
Richie Culver | Leisure & Tourism
22 Apr - 29 May 2021Born in Hull in the North of England into a working-class family, Culver was not exposed to art growing up and left school with no qualifications to work in a factory making caravans. His practice encompasses diverse elements that range from painting, sculpture and photography to digital performance. Within this,...Read more
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Richie CulverAlive in the living-room, EP, Drowned by locals , 2023
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Richie CulverHull city centre , 2023
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Richie CulverUntitled, 2023Lacquer on canvas220 x 180 cm
86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverChase Money, 2022Acrylic and lacquer on canvas200 x 180 cm
78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverFine Line, 2022Acrylic and lacquer on canvas220 x 180 cm
86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverI was born by the sea , LP, 2022
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Richie CulverMainstream, 2022Acrylic and lacquer on canvas200 x 180 cm
78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverStudio, 2022
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Richie CulverWork Harder, 2022Acrylic and lacquer on canvas220 x 180 cm
86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverChase Money, 2021Acrylic and lacquer on canvas
46 x 38 cms
18 1/8 x 15 inches -
Richie CulverIssey Miyake , 2021Acrylic and lacquer on canvas46 x 38 cms
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Richie CulverSelf Portrait, 2021Latex, scratches, creases and acrylic on canvas in aluminium frame175 x 141 cm
68 7/8 x 55 1/2 in -
Richie CulverSilk Pyjamas, 2021Mixed media on cardboard in aluminium frame36 x 30 cm
14 1/8 x 11 3/4 in -
Richie CulverSmall Town, 2021Pencil on cardboard in aluminium frame31 x 27 cm
12 1/4 x 10 5/8 in -
Richie CulverThe Future, 2021Acrylic and lacquer on canvas200 x 170 cms
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Richie CulverUntitled, 2021Lacquer and acrylic on canvas200 x 180 cm
78 3/4 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverUntitled, 2021Lacquer on canvas200 x 170 cm
78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in -
Richie CulverHobby, 2020Latex and acrylic on canvas
Kandlhofer80 x 60 cm
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in -
Richie CulverMassive Fan, 2020Acrylic and lacquer on canvas220 x 180 cm
86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in -
Richie CulverUntitled, 2020Lacquer on sofaDimensions variable
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Richie CulverUntitled , 2018Mixed media in metal200 x 200 cm
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in -
Richie CulverNo fear, 2017Work on paper60 x 50 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in -
Richie CulverStudio photo by Tyrrell Winston
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Richie CulverInstallation View II, Leisure & Tourism , 2021
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Richie CulverInstallation View VII, Leisure & Tourism, 2021
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Richie CulverInstallation View VIII, Leisure & Tourism, 2021
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Richie Culver Installation View XXII , Leisure & Tourism, 2021
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Richie CulverInstallation View, XIII Leisure & Tourism , 2021
Fad Magazine: Richie Culver and David Hanes a joint exhibition that investigates the human relationship with Fate, Luck & Higher Forces that Guide our path. My Mark Westall, 24.03.2022
Gallery Talk: Der strauchelnde Mensch. Richie Culver bei Ruttkowski;68 by Julia Stellmann, 26.04.2022
Wiener Zeitung: Richie Culver, Seidenpyjamas sind demotivierend, 19.05.2021
The Rake. Art on his sleeve: Richie Culver by Flora Alexandra Ogalvili
Artplugged: Richie Culver, Artist inside the industry, 07.07.2021
Tique I Publication on contemporary art: Richie Culver by Kenny Schater