Donna Riddington
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Donna Riddington
@donnariddington.bsky.social
Artist, graphic designer, activist, nature lover
www.donnariddington.com
Pictured, ‘Cher’ – her name a term of endearment, repeated hundreds of times across an archive of messages and images. Romanticised photos of girls and women posted over a century ago - WW1 social media and a mass PR war effort.

#WW1 #womeninwartime #drawing #archive #Art #symbolism
July 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
👆🏼Tomorrow night, it’s the private view for IF HEAVEN FALLS @lido_stores_margate from 7-9pm, Saturday 8 February.
Come see our work! ❤️ 🎨🖼

Exhibition runs from 8 February to 8 March at The Lido Stores, 2 Ethelbert Tce, Margate, CT9 1RX.

#groupexhibition #Art #ThanetArt
February 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@anartistsinfo have awarded me an artist bursary …Yaaay!!!

I am soooo excited about the creative activities I have planned. For me, this is a game changer.
Many thanks to the a-n panel for selecting me.

Pictured: ‘Murmurings’ (2024).

#supportingartists #artsfunding #bursaries
January 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Post #1 is for my first few followers, babes of Bluesky.

‘Claudia’ (mixed media on paper, 2025).

Of the series ‘Lovers and Writers’, inspired by a collection of WW1 pan-European, romantic postcards, all picturing women. Mail was censored. Senders and receivers penned coded notes to lovers & kin.
January 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM