Daniel Pettitt is included in Bird i’th Hand, a group exhibition at A_PLACE, Glasgow, running from 17 September to 1 October 2026, with a preview on Thursday 17 September, 6 to 9 pm. He exhibits alongside Jennifer Aldred, Clive Hodgson and Graham Lister.

The exhibition brings together four artists working primarily with abstraction as a means to grasp at the barely graspable in visual language, each working with gesture, touch, repetition, decoration or words, both legible and illegible, to hint at meanings which exist on the barest periphery of understanding.

The title is a North West of England colloquial rendering of the phrase “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. The works gathered under it probe questions of artistic authenticity and identity: the ‘hand’ of the artist, the sign, the signature, and the tension between the impulse to reach beyond what we have or to trust in the value of what we already hold.

Pettitt shows two paintings from his Crop Rotation series, Crop Rotation (MM) and Crop Rotation (September), both 2026, acrylic on canvas and plastic, 40 x 30 cm each.

A_PLACE shows contemporary painting by artists based primarily in Scotland, and runs in partnership with Nomas* Projects. The gallery is at 209 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4HZ, within Adelaide Place Baptist Church, and opens during exhibitions on Sundays 2 to 4 pm, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11 am to 2 pm, and by appointment.

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Image: installation view © Daniel Pettitt. Courtesy A_PLACE.

Soho Home King's Road Studio, curated by Rise Art

Four works by Daniel Pettitt are now on display at Soho Home's King's Road Studio in Chelsea, as part of the ongoing partnership between Soho Home and Rise Art. Rise Art selects original work by emerging and established artists for Soho Home's studios in the UK, Germany and the US. The works can be bought in-store or online.

The selection includes three small paintings on canvas, hung as a group.

The King's Road Studio is at 6 Duke of York Square, in a building that began as a chapel in 1824.

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Image: Interior view of works, 2026.

Daniel Pettitt takes part in the gallery's group summer exhibition, which runs from 26 June - 25 July 2026. The exhibition opens on Thursday 25 June, 6 to 8 pm.

The gallery presents the show "focussing on the frame as extension of the artwork", with over thirty artists exploring "ideas around the artist's frame".

Pettitt exhibits alongside Kelli Ali, Jackie Askew, Peps Barkhan, Stephen Bell, Matilda Bevan, Carolyn Blake, Filippo Caramazza, Hanna ten Doornkaat, Archie Franks, Sol Golden-Sato, Robert Good, Nigel Grimmer, Ron Haselden, Kaz, Jillian Knipe, Sharon Kivland, Anouk Lazarek Münster, Emma Lilly, Andrew Miller, James Robert Morrison, Jost Münster, James Randell, Michal Raz, D J Roberts, Jacob Sirkin, Diana Taylor, Virginia Verran, April Virgoe, Paul Westcombe and Neil Zakiewicz.

Crop Rotation (LIGO), 2025 continues Pettitt's interest in speculative abstraction via an eclectic mix of second-order source imagery. Plastic as a material component has recently come into his paintings, as it does in this piece, with the polymer membrane acting as a physical and conceptual barrier; compositional elements exist on the same visual plane, but are forever kept separate as if they are floating in space or written in the sky, soon to blow away. This mode also playfully complicates and denies the binary polarity of paint either sitting 'on' or 'in' a surface.

An accompanying event, Afternoon Pause: Drinks at The Artist's Frame, runs on Saturday 11 July, 5 to 7 pm. Find out more via Bobinska Brownlee New River.

Image: Installation view, The Artist's Frame, Bobinska Brownlee New River, 2026. © The Artists. Courtesy Bobinska Brownlee New River. Photography: Cesare De Giglio.

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.

More on the exhibition here

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.

Image: Installation view, 'I Saw It All Around Me', Warbling at 10 Greatorex Street, 2025. © The Artists, Courtesy Warbling. Photography: Studio Adamson.

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.

Highlighting creativity, culture and experiences in the South West, Made in Plymouth reporter Issy Herring previewed Everything That Happens Will Happen Today at KARST and caught up with two of the exhibiting painters, Bernadette Kerrigan and Daniel Pettitt. The article singles out Pettitt's July, an intimately scaled painting drawing on personal memory.

Head of Programme Ben Borthwick spoke about the exhibition's two-year development: "One of the best parts of being a curator is working closely with artists to develop something that might not otherwise exist. [...] There are cases like this exhibition, where it is a mix of both new and existing work to explore an idea. We have been discussing the ideas around this show for almost two years, taking it from a proposition to the fully realised exhibition now at KARST."

Daniel Pettitt on the exhibition

"All four of us have separately made the paintings, not with this specific project in mind, now hung on the gallery walls new conversations between pieces start to spark. [...] There's a distinct quality to the city, due to its history and geography: the land, sky, and sea are all equally present here. In a very loose sense, there is a degree of landscape and elemental division of space across the work of Bernadette, Chris, EJ, and myself. It's these kinds of unplanned, unlooked-for connections that make Everything That Happens Will Happen Today worth coming to see."

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