Richard Bagguley

Who is Richard Bagguley?

Richard Bagguley is an international muralist and artist.

He spends much of the year traveling, dividing his time between on site commissions and his studios in London and Los Angeles.

His method of using real people and events in his paintings falls under the label of social realism.

His parents lived in Brighton moving to Hampshire when Richard was 1 year old. Bagguley was educated at Reed’s school in Cobham Surrey, before studying photography at The Arts University College at Bournemouth followed by a brief spell as photographer and illustrator for Hull University magazine.

At 21, Bagguley left for Latin America. For 8 years he traveled the world, dealing in textiles whilst photographing and drawing the people of South America, Asia and Australia.

Finally settling in London, in 1985 he turned to mural and trompe l’oeil work to complete over 450 private and commercial commissions in 7 countries.

In 2000 he started to work on canvas, painting a series on Tribal art for the River Nile gallery in Spain and portrait commissions in the UK. In 2002 he started on a new series of paintings topical social commentary ‘social realism’ which formed the body of work first shown in the Chelsea arts club in March 2009. At the same time the documentary "Heaven, Hell and Bagguley" inspired by the contrast in the artists work was made by Max Thurlow, this and his latest body of work under the same title was shown at the Maverik gallery at the end of October 2009. In the same month Richard staged a modern crucifixion with performance artist Stephen Howarth as Jesus outside Oxford Circus underground station at rush hour.