Jupiter Proposals is a collection of one hundred and thirty-four typewritten proposals which Peter Liversidge submitted to Jupiter Artland between 1 December 2008 and 31 January 2009. The proposals present an ambitious range of potential artworks for Jupiter Artland but are in fact an artwork in their own right.

‘Jupiter Proposals are an invitation, a guide, a beginning for others. I have no control – nor do I want to have control – over how people interact with the proposals. Their imagined realisation belongs solely to others.’ Peter Liversidge

The typewritten proposals form part of Jupiter’s permanent collection, and have been published as an artist’s book, also titled Jupiter Proposals. Three of the proposals have also been given material existence and are similarly part of Jupiter Artland’s permanent collection: Signpost to Jupiter, Winter Shadow and Midsummer Snowstorm.

Biography

Peter Liversidge was born in 1973 in Lincoln, UK. No single category or definition can successfully describe his extraordinarily diverse practice which includes work in drawing, film, performance, painting, photography, installations and multiples. Liversidge’s approach to his work invites collaboration and is subsequently formed by influences beyond his control; his artworks are investigations of coincidence and not limited to the language of a single medium.

The subjects of his work can seem equally diverse – from an enduring obsession with the North Montana Plains (a place he has never visited) to a fascination with logos and luxury goods, and a preponderance for subverting our ideas about ‘Nature’ with his use of taxidermied birds and casts of natural objects in incongruous materials. These elements are united by an underlying streak of dark, absurdist humour, and a gently persistent questioning and curiosity.

His recent solo exhibitions include Proposals for Lancaster Arts, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, UK (2023); Rural Time, East Quay, Watchet, UK (2023); Either / Or, Kate MacGarry, London (2023); an echo, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2022); Topsy Turvy, Sign Paintings for Belfast, The Mac, Belfast (2020); Sign Paintings for the NHS, Roman Road, E2 (2020); Working title I, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2018); Working title II, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2019); EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly, New York, USA (2018); Proposals for The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum at The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA (2017); The Bridge (A Choral Piece for Tate Modern), Tate Modern, London (2016) and Notes on Protesting, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), alongside participation in many group exhibitions both in the UK and internationally. His work is held in private collections worldwide and public collections including the British Council, Government Art Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Tate Gallery Archive and the Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague.