At the end of the month of August, we had the pleasure of organising a puplic presentation of the new creation for the Riu d’Art Open Air Gallery.

The large scale mural is created collaboratively by Courtney Madley, Grace Atkins, Junnan Zhu, Katarina Kemp and Tezni Williams, students from University of Southampton and Winchester School of Art.

Designed specifically for this site, the mural presents a visual composition encompassing the 32 day residency the students completed this summer with the support of Turing Scheme UK funding.

The month of May 2023 saw the creation of the new mural for the Riu d’art Open Air Gallery. This stunning artwork has been created by Dana Leslie, Mhaira Brown, Kyle Leeson, Jasmin Robertson and Josephone O’Connor. The artists produced this work as part of their Grampus Turing Placement here in Riba-roja d’Ebre. The mural is entitled ‘Fluir amb l’aigua segura’ which translates as ‘Go with safe water’, taking inspiration from a found letter.

This year’s Riu d’art Street Fest saw the creation of two large scale site-specific murals. The first in Santo Domingo and the second in Carrer Triangle. We also added to this years event an exhibition of artwork in the Town Hall. Five artists from the Ribera region showed their work under the title ‘Confluence’. We also added a digital dimension to this years event. Four digital artworks in response to the theme ‘Water/River’ were projected onto the beautiful stone wall of the Castle in Plaça del Forn.

We get ready to welcome artists to Riba-roja d’Ebre to create new works for the Riu d’art Open Air Gallery. This edition will include large scale murals and projected video works, as well as an exhibition of local artists and a free art workshop!

The month of May saw the creation of a new artwork for the Riu d’art Open Air Gallery. This work is situated in the Barrio of Santo Domingo. It’s history formed the inspiration for the work, with people coming to Riba-roja d’Ebre in the 60s to construct the large hydroelectric dam and simultaneously building their houses in this location.

After a pandemic related hiatus in in the year 2020, we were delighted to host 4 artists as part of our first Grampus Heritage and Training placement. September 2021 saw a new addition created to add to the Riu d’art Open Air Gallery. Entitled ‘Qui Som?’ (the Catalan for ‘Who are we?’), the artists worked collaboratively to create an illustrative response to their experience living and working in Riba-roja d’Ebre for one month.

Riba Rocks has opened the call for the 5th edition of Riu d’art to local, national and international artists of any discipline. From today until the 5th April, artists can present their artistic proposals online.

The Riu d’art presentation takes place on the 22nd June in Riba-roja d’Ebre. Meeting in the Town Hall square at 7pm. We will make a tour of the new artworks culminating in live music and bar service in the Placa del Forn.