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Peter Liversidge - The Thrill of it All
Peter Liversidge. Installation view of The Thrill of it All (c) Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
25 March 2010, 6-7.30pm
This month, we will be joined by the artist Peter Liversidge to discuss his recently opened exhibition The Thrill of it All. Some of you will remember seeing Peter’s work – Signpost to Jupiter – during our Spin-off trip to Jupiter Artland in 2009.
Any exhibition of work by Peter Liversidge is predicted to present the unpredictable. For more than a decade, Liversidge’s work has encompassed every medium creating paintings and drawings, photograhy, performance and sculpture. The tone of his work shifts from the playful to the poignant, but is always underpinned by a generosity that unifies and characterises his distinct and varied approach.
Given the uncertainty that a Liversidge exhibition presents, every element in an exhibition of his work begins at the artist’s kitchen table with Liversidge sitting alone writing proposals on an old manual typewriter. These hand-typed pages, present an array of possible and impossible ideas for performances and artworks in almost every conceivable medium. In a sense, the first realisation of every work is in Liversidge’s head, then on the page, then in the mind of the reader, and finally as a physical object or happening.
This will be a chance for us to explore the ideas that underpin Peter’s practice and to discover what role we play within his creative process.