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.
Her photo book The Beach Today was published by Guillemot Press (2021) and her debut collection of essays was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing 2019. She is represented by Caro Clarke at Portobello Literary Agency and currently writing about sea creatures.
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.