Exhibition Archives - Daniel Pettitt

September 20, 2025

Cahoots, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

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.

I Saw It All Around Me, Warbling, London

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.

July 20, 2025

AFTER IMAGE – TVE Broadcast

A walkthrough of AFTER IMAGE at Barrera Baldán Galería, Seville with gallerist Jesus Barrera was broadcast on Televisión Española (TVE) in July 2025.

The group exhibition brought together works by Bernadette Kerrigan, Daniel Pettitt, and Ana H. del Amo, organised and curated by SCAN Projects.

June 6, 2025

Artist Talk – University of Seville

To coincide with the opening of AFTER IMAGE at Barrera Baldán Galería, Sevilla, Daniel Pettitt and Bernadette Kerrigan joined SCAN Projects curator Pedro Font Alba in conversation at the Centre for Cultural Initiatives of the University of Seville (CICUS). The two painters discuss their work and the ideas underpinning the exhibition.

June 5, 2025

AFTER IMAGE, Barrera Baldán Galería, Seville

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.

More Than the Ear Can Hold, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London

Daniel Pettitt and Ella Belenky present new and recent paintings in dialogue at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, from 29 November to 14 December 2024. The exhibition opens on Thursday 28 November, 6 to 8 pm, curated by Andrew Price.

The title comes from American writer, poet, and art critic Frank O'Hara's piece Radio, and the poem's logic of switching between stations shapes the curatorial premise: each painting a different frequency, inspiration found through impulse rather than system. The pairing highlights a shared commitment to experimentation beyond categorisation, both artists forsaking a signature mode in favour of work that holds tension between revealing and obscuring, communication and illegibility.

Pettitt's contributions develop his ongoing interest in allusive and speculative abstraction. Abstract passages of gestural mark-making, hints at figuration, fragments of found imagery, and textual impositions blend into what he describes as 'provisional fields and partial images'. Elements support one another while threatening to eradicate one another, every gesture met with its counter. Marks pile up atop and alongside, making surfaces into a patchwork of zones, legible as laid out across an expanse, not unlike a map.

Shown together, the paintings produce what the press release calls 'a symphony of vocabularies, techniques, palettes and motifs, more than the ear can hold'.

Image: Installation view, More Than the Ear Can Hold, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, 2024. © The Artists. Courtesy Unit 1 Gallery Workshop.

May 20, 2024

Exhibition Walkthrough – KARST, Plymouth

Join painters Bernadette Kerrigan and Daniel Pettitt and Head of Programme at KARST, Ben Borthwick, for an informal walkthrough of Everything That Happens Will Happen Today on Saturday 25 May at 11.30am.

The exhibition remains on view until 20 July 2024, Wednesday to Saturday, 11am–5pm.

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, KARST, Plymouth

Daniel Pettitt is included in Everything That Happens Will Happen Today at KARST, Plymouth, on view from 25 May to 20 July 2024. Bringing together four distinct painters, Bernadette Kerrigan, Chris Martin, Daniel Pettitt, and EJ Hauser, the exhibition explores the formal and informal ways each artist makes sense of the world through painting.

The exhibition title, taken from David Byrne and Brian Eno's 2008 collaborative album, serves as a thematic anchor, prompting notions around the interconnectedness of creative endeavours. It can also be understood as a poetic declaration on the possibilities available when making a painting: intuition, design, chance, technique, and intent all coming into play. Rather than attempting to define a movement, the exhibition brings into focus the social relationships, research interests, and ways in which these painters interconnect.

Daniel Pettitt at KARST

Pettitt's contributions develop his ongoing interest in allusive and speculative abstraction. Abstract passages of gestural mark-making, hints at figuration, fragments of found imagery, and textual impositions blend into what he describes as 'provisional fields and partial images'. Elements support one another while threatening to eradicate one another, every gesture met with its counter. Marks pile up atop and alongside, making surfaces into a patchwork of zones, legible as laid out across an expanse, not unlike a map.

Find out more via KARST

Image: Installation view, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, KARST, Plymouth, 2024. © The Artists, Courtesy KARST.

April 14, 2024

Publication – Soft Semaphore

To accompany the exhibition Soft Semaphore at Seventeen, London, artist Richard Paul has produced a publication of the same name featuring work by all six artists in the show: Betsy Bradley, Ingrid Castelein, Julie Maurin, Erin O'Keefe, Daniel Pettitt, and Richard Paul.

April 10, 2024

Soft Semaphore, Seventeen, London

Daniel Pettitt is included in Soft Semaphore at Seventeen, London, on view from 12 April to 18 May 2024, with a private view on Thursday 11 April from 6pm. The exhibition brings together Betsy Bradley, Ingrid Castelein, Julie Maurin, Erin O'Keefe, Richard Paul, and Daniel Pettitt.

In programming, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to regulate access to shared resources, with its primary operations of 'wait' and 'signal' delineated by behaviour as perceived by those interacting with the data. The exhibition draws parallels between the interpreter and the viewer, both engaged in the task of deciphering data and extracting meaning. In its more familiar form, the semaphore is a visual cue reducing language to facilitate communication over distance, achieved through fire, lights, flags, or the body. A more subtle rendition of this concept extends back into plastic mediums, hinted at by the word's etymology, derived from the Greek for 'mark', 'sign', or 'token'.

Pettitt's contributions develop his ongoing interest in allusive and speculative abstraction. Abstract passages of gestural mark-making, hints at figuration, fragments of found imagery, and textual impositions blend into what he describes as 'provisional fields and partial images'. Elements support one another while threatening to eradicate one another, every gesture met with its counter. Marks pile up atop and alongside, making surfaces into a patchwork of zones, legible as laid out across an expanse, not unlike a map.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication by Richard Paul.

Find out more via Seventeen

Image: Installation view, Soft Semaphore, Seventeen, London, 2024. © The Artists, Courtesy Seventeen. Photography: Damian Griffiths.