Allan Kaprow at Jupiter Artland

Peter Liversidge

Out/Exit Piece, 1966/2020

In the Steadings Gallery, you will find Peter Liversidge’s SIGN PAINTING STUDIO, where you can place orders for artworks to be hand-painted by the artist’s studio. Individuals can take these placards with them, creating an intervention into everyday life, as placards are carried home, taken on public transport or otherwise dispersed through the city.

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Peter Liversidge is reinventing Allan Kaprow’s only UK happening, which was originally created by Kaprow for the Edinburgh Festival in 1963. Liversidge began this reinvention in collaboration with ORBIT Youth Council, a group of young people from across Scotland, and during lockdown expanded his modern-day reworking to encompass an installation of sign paintings on Jupiter’s exit road; a sign painting studio which the public can use to make placards; and a celebratory work consisting of One Thousand Thank Yous hand-painted by the Wilson family during lockdown, albeit under Peter’s remote tutelage.

To mark the traditional dates of Edinburgh Art Festival, Jupiter is also proudly participating in Liversidge’s Flags for Edinburgh with a white flag waving a friendly HELLO!

About Peter Liversidge

No single category or definition can successfully describe Peter Liversidge’s extraordinarily diverse practice which includes work in almost every conceivable medium: drawing, film, performance, painting, photography, installations and editions/multiples. 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, all united by an underlying streak of dark, absurdist humour, and a gently persistent questioning of things.

Liversidge has exhibited widely in Britain and Europe, with exhibitions as part of the Europalia Festival of Arts organised by the British Council in Brussels and at the Centre d’Art Santa Monica in 2008. Liversidge exhibited in ‘The Fifth Floor – Ideas Taking Place’ at Tate Liverpool from December 2008-February 2009. In 2009 Liversidge will also participate in ‘New Programme’, the new curatorial initiative at Bloomberg Space, London, consisting entirely of newly commissioned work. In 2010 he will create a substantial installation within a new programme of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington.

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.