M.E.N chief reporter Neal Keeling reviews the retrospective exhibition, Every Line is Me - A celebration of Harold Riley
A retrospective exhibition of Harold Riley's work does not shy away from the sadness and brutal nature of living as well as its joy. The vivid red shirts almost beat with pride as George Best and Bobby Charlton celebrate a goal at Old Trafford. But paintings of Riley's father near death and a dishevelled meths drinker slumped in a street are powerful and haunting.
An oil painting of his father is called 'The Patient' and is stark in its brutal honesty. Harold's comment for the work is: "This my father not long before he died. He went into hospital, and I brought him home like that. This was in ’59 and he smoked 80 cigarettes a day." Lowry engineered the first sale of a picture by Harold. He invited him to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, and had a word with Albert Frape, curator at the time. Lowry suggested a price of 30 shillings which Frape paid and Mr Riley used the cash to buy a new plaid shirt.
After completing a course at Slade he won a travel scholarship to Italy, followed by a British Council Scholarship to study in Spain and went on to study in Florence and Madrid University before returning to Salford, where he lived until he died. Ashraf said: "Salford Museum to Harold was not a shelter for fugitives but a mehrab for the spiritual. Harold loved the City of Salford, the city of his birth, his childhood, and where he grew up to be an artist as a young man.
The vast breadth of Harold's work is faithfully shown. A huge portrait of the late Duke of Edinburgh, who he painted when he was Chancellor of the University of Salford, is included. "It sold in New York City in a gallery above 5th Avenue for well over £1 million. All the money went to children in the townships.
During the 1960s, 70s, and 80s Harold documented the changing streets of Salford - with both his artwork and photography - and was often seen with easel, sat next to a soon to be bulldozed pub or row of terraces. Other elements included in the exhibition are quotes and stories from Harold to give an insight into the huge legacy of work he has left.
Harold produced books of sketches of Salford's street dogs and his own pets inspired his work. In July at Ordsall Hall they will feature in a separate exhibition.
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