Tuesday Riddell (b. 1992, Newcastle Upon Tyne) is a London-based artist working in an endangered craft; Japanning is a 17th-century type of finish that is a European imitation of Asian Lacquer work. Her paintings explore the depth of the forest floor. Ethereal nocturne where all cycles of life and death are found in the undergrowth. She graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2015 and later completed the Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship at the same institution. In 2019, she was awarded the Cockpit Arts/Radcliffe Craft Development Award. Most recently, Tuesday became part of the Homo Faber Guide and was featured in the 2024 Homo Faber Biennale in Venice.
Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘In Shadows’ Messums Cork Street, London (2023); ‘Web’ Messums Cork Steet, London (2021); ‘Forest Floor’ Messums Cork Street, London (2019); ‘Under the Canopy’ Messums West, Wiltshire (2019). Recent group exhibitions include; ‘The Journey of Life’ Homo Faber Biennale, Venice, Italy (2024); ‘Biophilia’ Pamela Salisbury Gallery, New York (2024); ‘The Gilded City’ London Craft Week, Painters Hall, London (2024); ‘Plates with Purpose’ Messums West, Wiltshire (2024); ‘The Sudden Opening of Little leaves’ Pictorum gallery, London (2023); ‘Illuminations’ Steve Turner Gallery, LA (2023); ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold’ Worshipful Company of Painter Stainer’s, London (2022); ‘Art in the Age of Now’ Art Below, Fulham Town Hall, London (2021); ‘Art in the City’ Painters Hall, London (2021); ‘Devils in the Detail’ Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); ‘Curating in Contrast’ Messums Cork Street, London (2020).