'My Work Is A Vehicle For My Life' - A Rare Audience With Op-Art Pioneer Bridget Riley

Forty-eight years after her first exhibition at the Hayward Gallery made her the darling of the art world, Bridget Riley’s largest-ever retrospective has just opened on the South Bank. Tracing the titan’s creative development from adolescence onward,includes figurative paintings she made as a schoolgirl at Cheltenham Ladies' College; the disorientating 1960s masterpieces that began an artistic revolution; and standout works such as 'Continuum', a metallic spiral booth .

My work is all that I feel, really, and all that I think. So, in a way, it’s all that I have [laughs]. And… it’s a vehicle for my life. So, everything goes into it, and the disciplines are essential. I’ve exercised a discipline in my work, which has strengthened it and allowed me to give more of myself to it than if I had sort of…done a bit of work and then gone on and done a bit of something else.

Tell me about this work in particular [we are sitting in front of ‘Quiver 3’, a very large work that entirely covers one wall].

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