Abstract
In recent years Daniel Pettitt has elaborated his painting within a register of allusive and speculative abstraction. Ingesting an eclectic mix of visual and cultural materials, such as lyrical abstraction, everyday signage, modernist poetry and post-conceptual art, his work tracks fluctuations of index, fragment,
metaphor, memory, semblance and mood as they congeal and dissolve into provisional fields and partial images. Many of the works shown here are part of the ongoing Crop Rotation series; colour and form are churned, tilled, harvested, gleaned, and cultivated across the picture plane. They chart an intense period of making, moving voraciously across painting and drawing,
offering an array of divergent and often fugitive works.
Daniel Pettitt studied a Masters in Painting at the Royal College of
Art, London, 2015-2017 and BA Fine Art at Bath School of Art & Design
2005 - 2008. Recent exhibitions have included: Granite and Rainbow (solo), Palfrey, London, 2019; Tin Decade (solo), Roper Gallery, Bath, 2019; Dark Lantern, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, 2019; Little Bouket, 2/2, Glasgow, 2019; Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Sheffield; Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, AttercliffeTM,
Sheffield, 2018; The Brightness of the Colour, NAM Project, Milan, 2016; In this soup we swim, Kingsgate Project Space, 2016 and John Moores Painting Prize,Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2014.
metaphor, memory, semblance and mood as they congeal and dissolve into provisional fields and partial images. Many of the works shown here are part of the ongoing Crop Rotation series; colour and form are churned, tilled, harvested, gleaned, and cultivated across the picture plane. They chart an intense period of making, moving voraciously across painting and drawing,
offering an array of divergent and often fugitive works.
Daniel Pettitt studied a Masters in Painting at the Royal College of
Art, London, 2015-2017 and BA Fine Art at Bath School of Art & Design
2005 - 2008. Recent exhibitions have included: Granite and Rainbow (solo), Palfrey, London, 2019; Tin Decade (solo), Roper Gallery, Bath, 2019; Dark Lantern, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, 2019; Little Bouket, 2/2, Glasgow, 2019; Heads Roll, Graves Gallery, Sheffield; Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, AttercliffeTM,
Sheffield, 2018; The Brightness of the Colour, NAM Project, Milan, 2016; In this soup we swim, Kingsgate Project Space, 2016 and John Moores Painting Prize,Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2014.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Event | Dentons Art Prize 0.9 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Mar 2020 → … |