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.

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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.

Crop Rotation (Spring), 2024 is included in I Saw It All Around Me, a group exhibition organised by the artist-run curatorial project Warbling, on view from 4 to 8 September 2025 at 10 Greatorex Street, London, E1 5NF.

The exhibition is rooted in themes of memory, drift, and perception, taking as its starting point the experience of moving through the world with the mind elsewhere: surfaces that retain the weight of other moments, thoughts that arrive unbidden and fold themselves into the present. Founded by Robyn Graham, Warbling is dedicated to sharing and exhibiting quiet, subtle work from artists who hold similar sensitivities within their practice. Pettitt's work is shown alongside pieces by Julie Annis, Jesse Blaauw, Giulia Cacciuttolo, Charlotte Dawson, Louise Gaubert, Orise Jacques-Durocher, Emma Kling, Guy Marshall Brown, Caitlin McCormack, Anisa Nachett, Casilda Oppe, Yihan Pan, Sujin Park, Patrycja Płóciennik, Ellie Pearch, Claudia Sarnthein, and Kirti Virmani.

New and recent paintings and works on paper included in AFTER IMAGE at Barrera Baldán Galería, Seville, from 6 June to 31 July 2025, opening Friday 6 June at 8 pm. The exhibition presents painting, drawing and sculpture by Bernadette Kerrigan, Daniel Pettitt, and Ana H. del Amo, organised and curated by SCAN Projects with the support of the gallery.

The after image, also known as the persistence of vision, is the phenomenon by which the eye holds an image after the object has gone. It is what allows a projected film to appear in fluid movement, its still cells blending into motion at twenty-four frames per second. The exhibition takes this flicker, with a passing nod to Blondie's 'Fade Away and Radiate' and its image of a dozing viewer receiving glowing, fading images in the dark, as a lens for thinking about layering, repetition, retention, and the slippage between what is seen and what is remembered.

The works in this exhibition operate within a liminal field, as the curators say 'uncanny in the sense of being simultaneously familiar and strange, at the edge of our cultural vision but unnerving, and perhaps also desired'. Layering and assemblage evoke spatial and visual memory, yet the clear materiality of each surface returns the eye to the immediate. Repetition functions as both strategy and attentive pursuit, an echo of the retinal screen in the canvas itself.

The exhibition proposes the object, whether canvas, wood, or paper, as a surrogate retina: an extended section through time, activated and altered by the movement of the viewer. Across the three practices, AFTER IMAGE offers a consideration of shared interests in image-making and memory, vision, cultural space, material, form and perception.

The exhibition is accompanied by an artist talk at the Centre for Cultural Initiatives of the University of Seville (CIRCUS) with Pettitt, Kerrigan, and SCAN Projects curator Pedro Font Alba, and a broadcast feature on TVE.

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Image: 'AFTER IMAGE' Private View, Barrera Baldán Galería, Seville 2025. © Daniel Pettitt. Photography: Daniel Pettitt.