Current Exhibitions
The Landscape of the Gods
Michael Petry
Re- Opening soon
The exhibition is temporarily closed due to C19. It has been extended and we will update the new dates on here when it re-opens.
Michael Petry
Re- Opening soon
The exhibition is temporarily closed due to C19. It has been extended and we will update the new dates on here when it re-opens.
Prize image: Michael Petry
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Wexford Culture Night
Petry will be one of six artists making sited sound works as part of Open Gorey's SLEEPERTOWN project on Culture Night. Titled 'The Prize Is Still Mine' the piece, with libretto by Petry and a score composed by John Powell, will be located at the Circe Pavilion in Gorey. Powell is best known for his scores in motion pictures like ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. In 2012 Petry, Powell and Gavin Greenaway made a 25th anniversary sound installation at Petry’s solo exhibition ‘The Touch of the Oracle’ at the Palm Springs Art Museum called The Dilemma. Powell has now reworked for Gospel Choir and Orchestra the piece .incorporating the wonderful voices of Judith, Edie and the other singers into something else: and so formed The Prize is Still Mine, a strange mix of styles Powell has always liked; Gospel & early 20th Century Romanticism. Contributing artists include; Judith Hill, José Serebrier, Edie Lehmann, Philharmonia Orchestra, LA Gospel Session Singers The work features as the opening to Powell’s album Hubris: Vocal Works by John Powell and can be heard here on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/1Y9VtyDGONYhj9rdbTQoVW?highlight=spotify:track:5gOcR1CQVnnuNcpOz1z7h4 Live audiences will be able to experience the work in situ from the 18th of September to March 2021. Find more information about the artist here:https://www.sleepertown.com/john-powell |
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Left: John Powell in the studio
Right: Petry Photo Credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Right: Petry Photo Credit: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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The Landscape of the Gods
Accompanied exhibition catalogue. Text / Images by: Michael Petry 80 pages and 39 illustrations Available as paperback and special edition Hardback Please download free digital version here: The Landscape of the Gods Press Links: Artlyst FAD HSBC Space HSBC Holdings PLC HGHQ Level 6, 8 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HQ |
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Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions
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Michael Petry: In The Realm of the Gods A solo exhibition at The Holburne Museum, Bath October 20, 2017 – April 8, 2018 The Holburne Museum has invited Petry to make a new feature installation and to place two other pieces in relation to existing works in their collection. Download the PDF |
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Lest We Forget the Gods Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California 2017 For his paintings Petry suspended bladders of paint in front of the white canvases and then fired arrows into them, bursting the paint onto the surface. The paintings are at once a document of the action of their creation as well as painterly objects in themselves that speak to a history of painting. Download PDF |
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A History of Thunder The Fine Art Society 2016 Joshua D’s Wall is placed directly on the floor, as if a glass wall has fallen over. On the surrounding walls will be works from the Fine Art Society’s collection of paintings, drawings, and prints from artists working in the period of the First and Second World War. These will be accompanied by photographs of soldiers in Petry’s collection of WWI memorabilia. Artlyst FAD BBC World Service Download PDF |
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The Touch of the Oracle Palm Springs Art Museum, California 2012 The Touch of the Oracle features three monumental site-specific installations – Golden Rain, Joshua D’s Wall, and The Dilemma. These artworks provide an opportunity for audiences to experience installation-based conceptual artworks by Michael Petry, who draws inspiration from art history, mythology, and contemporary culture. Each distinct piece relates and interacts with the others and the visitors, creating an environment filled with sound and visual complexity Download PDF |
Selected Recent Group Exhibitions
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Petry will exhibit a brand new hanging glass work in the group show Reflection curated by Alexander Hinks at London's Cello Factory.
Suspended from the central beam will be three glass pieces that reflect the day and artificial light. Each piece in the work You can twist for it, loops around itself. October 10-21, 2021 The Cello Factory 33-34 Cornwall Road London SE1 8TJ Waterloo under/overground station Reclaiming the Body
VOMA Gallery Zero March 2nd - June 2nd 2021 voma.space The exhibition Reclaiming the Body will examine the way images rooted in Classical European depictions of male dominance have historically contributed to shaping social prejudice against women within our cultural fabric. At the same time, it will present works by contemporary artists who seek to renew and reclaim the female body. The exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists, from artists such as Ana Mendieta, Huguette Caland, Adelaide Damoah, Ilona Szalay and Frida Kahlo, whose works express the agency and visceral nature of the female identity, through Trulee Hall, whose video works examine contemporary depictions of womanhood and female sexuality, to Michael Petry and Luciano Garbati, whose works review the historical art canon through the acts of dominance and violence routinely shown towards women. |
The Joshua Treenial 2019
Carl Berg & Cecilia Miniucchi // Johan Urban Bergquist // Ryan Campbell // Anibal Catalan // Rachel Dagnall // Jeff Frost //
Séverin Guelpa // Mary Addison Hackett // Samantha Harris & Almond Zigmund // Adriene Jenik & Dominic Miller //
Mathias Kessler // Angus McCullough // Paloma Menéndez // Michael Petry // Per Platou // Sabine Reckewell // Aili Schmeltz // Lewis deSoto // Benjamin Stanwix // Ivan Wong
www.joshuatreenial.com
Carl Berg & Cecilia Miniucchi // Johan Urban Bergquist // Ryan Campbell // Anibal Catalan // Rachel Dagnall // Jeff Frost //
Séverin Guelpa // Mary Addison Hackett // Samantha Harris & Almond Zigmund // Adriene Jenik & Dominic Miller //
Mathias Kessler // Angus McCullough // Paloma Menéndez // Michael Petry // Per Platou // Sabine Reckewell // Aili Schmeltz // Lewis deSoto // Benjamin Stanwix // Ivan Wong
www.joshuatreenial.com
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 2019
18 May - 20 October 2019
Michael Petry will be showing two works as part of Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 2019.
This years exhibition includes sculptures by:
Sol Bailey Barker, Claire Baily, James Balmforth, BASK, Olivia Bax, Jack Brindley, Clare Burnett, Jodie Carey, Alexandre da Cunha, Nicolas Deshayes, Luke Hart, Alex Hoda, Will Kippax, Michael Petry, Victor Seaward, Almuth Tebbenhoff, Kate Terry, Julian Wild, Ben Woodeson, David Worthington
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer Common Road, Fulmer, Bucks
SL3 6JN
More information
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18 May - 20 October 2019
Michael Petry will be showing two works as part of Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer 2019.
This years exhibition includes sculptures by:
Sol Bailey Barker, Claire Baily, James Balmforth, BASK, Olivia Bax, Jack Brindley, Clare Burnett, Jodie Carey, Alexandre da Cunha, Nicolas Deshayes, Luke Hart, Alex Hoda, Will Kippax, Michael Petry, Victor Seaward, Almuth Tebbenhoff, Kate Terry, Julian Wild, Ben Woodeson, David Worthington
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer Common Road, Fulmer, Bucks
SL3 6JN
More information
Download the PDF
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Michael Petry will have three new paintings in the exhibition Re-envisioning John Frederick Lewis at The Art Workers' Guild 6 Queen Square London WC1N 3AT The exhibition will run from Monday 25 November 2019 to Saturday 15 February 2020 www.artworkersguild.org |
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Workflow
CC Sint-Niklaas 21/04/2018 - 02/09/2018 Petry’s installation: Libation to Virgo (Aphrodite), 2017 silver glazed porcelain stars in the shape of the Virgo constellation. Each star 13 cm in diameter by 2.5 cm (5” x 1”) Overall dimensions variable 'WORKFLOW' was conceived as a succession, a panorama of more than 80 mainly contemporary artworks from 49 artists |
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Garden of Skin Angus-Hughes Gallery, London 2018 Petry showed his piece Libation to Apollo (24K gold leaf on acrylic) at GARDEN OF SKIN, a group show curated by artist Zachari Logan at at Angus-Hughes Gallery, Hackney. www.angus-hughes.org
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1 st Biënnale Oosterhout, At the Foot of the Gods Michael Petry’s new installation At the Foot of the Gods has been commissioned for the 1 st Biënnale Oosterhout. His work is made up of over 50 bronze casts of human toes that appear at first to have been broken off of Classical Greek sculptures. Their green (verdigris) colour has the look of ancient sculptures recovered from the sea, yet each one is a cast from someone in the arts or an athlete, as many such sculptures would have been. Each is identifiably unique. Losing the nose, toe, or thumb of a sculpture is one of the most common accidental changes to their appearance. Petry has scattered the bronzes on the stone floor in a Cloister recalling the story of Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece, where dragon’s teeth became Spartoi (warriors). His work asks: who are the gods, did they make humans, or did we make them? 1 st Biënnale Oosterhout September 16 - October 22, 2017 |
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Frontiers Reimagined Official Collateral Event as part of the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, 2015 Frontiers Reimagined, an official Biennale collateral event at the Palazzo Grimani, aims to "demonstrate the intellectual and aesthetic richness that can emerge in today's globalised art world when artists engage in intercultural dialogue" Frontiers Reimagined |
