Christina Riley is a Florida born, Ayrshire based artist and writer interested in the relationship humans have with the rest of the natural world and how those relationships shape, and are shaped by, art, culture, communities and politics, particularly in relation to the climate crisis.
Her practice often focuses on small details of the natural world, particularly in coastal and underwater environments, and often incorporates collections and found objects and finding ways to blend photography and writing, often in the form of artist’s books.
Her debut book Looking Down at the Stars: Life Beneath the Waves will be published by Saraband in autumn 2025. She was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing 2019 and a finalist in the 2023 Save Our Seas Ocean Storytelling grant.
In 2019, Riley started The Nature Library, a roving library of books connecting people to land, sky and sea, which in 2024 opened a long term location in Irvine, Ayrshire.