Daniel Pettitt is included in Cahoots, a group painting exhibition at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, on view from 8 to 19 October 2025 with a preview on Thursday 9 October, 6 to 8 pm.
Co-curated by Tabby Li and Toby Rainbird under their curatorial platform Lee Scully.
The show celebrates the shared networks that underpin contemporary painting in Brighton, UK and beyond, drawing on alumni of the University of Brighton, artists connected to the Freelands Foundation, and others from the city's wider artistic community. Though linked by only small degrees of separation, through education, residencies, awards, or shared contexts, the artists are united by a deeper concern: the potential of painting as both a material language and a vessel for complex ideas. Cahoots offers what the curators describe as 'a playful snapshot of contemporary approaches to painting, highlighting the fluidity of practice and the ways artists connect through parallel paths and divergent methods'.
Pettitt is shown alongside Kirsty Bell, Michael Clarence, Ben Coleman, Alex Crocker, Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, Grant Foster, Olivia Guillot, Toby Rainbird, Georgina Stone, Lydia Stonehouse, Rosie Tuff, Joshua Uvieghara, and Henry Ward.
Phoenix Art Space is at 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton and Hove, BN2 9NB.
Image: Installation view of 'Cahoots', Phoenix Art Space, 8 to 19 October 2025. © The Artists, Courtesy Lee Scully. Photography: Archie Nash.
