about revad

Revad is a nickname that first appeared when Dave required a domain name for this web site. As David Riley is such a common name a good way to secure a short and memorable domain name was to reverse his first name and intial to creat Revad (Dave R backwards).

Dave's first career was as a systems engineer and business analyst where over the years he has planned, designed, developed and built software based engineering solutions. Having started out as a trainee in the 70s Dave then became a technician in a teleprinter repair workshop and during the late 70s, 80s and early 90s he taught digital technology, computing and computer based telephony switching at a company training school. At the same time Dave gained a BA in Computing and Technology and became a member of the British Computer Society (a membership he still maintains). Over the past ten years Dave has worked on several major country wide information technology projects.

By the time Dave left this career (at the end of 2005) he was already a keen photographer who enjoyed using the digital light room to refine and change photographic images to produce fine art prints. Dave's experience with photography encouraged him to start afresh and explore his artistic side further, and so he is currently working hard towards a second BA, this time in fine art.

Dave's passion for technology still burns bright and the images he makes draw heavily from his experience as a systems engineer. To get them started he will use the architecture or environment of a familiar work place or building, some familiar piece of technology, a code, a relevant piece of math, a feeling about some aspect of his working life, or more often a combination of these important influences. Having used this inspiration to get started Dave will then respond to the image making process, explore the materials, discover the happy accidents that always occur, analyse the impact these have and use them to define a path to the final outcome.

physical exhibitions

Free Radicals, Swindon College School of Art, (May 2007)

on-line exhibitions

Selected digital paintings, http://www.redbubble.com/people/revad | (2008 - current);

AEIOU : From The Prelude, http://www.redbubble.com/people/codedimages | (2008 - current);

30 Minute Studio, http://pissedpoetpics.com/dr.html | (2007 - current);

AEIOU : From The Prelude, http://www.photoboxgallery.com/CodedImages | (2008 - closed);

33,000 Transient Distortions, http://TransientDistortions.com | (2007 - under review);

Continuum, http://revad.imagekind.com | (June 2008 - closed);

Selected digital paintings, http://revad.imagekind.com | (2007 - 2008 - closed);

Selected coded images, http://codedimages.imagekind.com | (2007 - under review);

Selected coded images, http://codedimages.com | (2006 - current);

Selected Works, http://revad.com | (2003 - current).

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