In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but inevitably isolated, individual.
30 July 2025
Michael Petry’s Mirror Mirror is a striking exploration of our fascination with mirrors and reflective surfaces. It explores this subject through art over the centuries…
21 November 2024
I begin the November Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have interviewed, such as Michael Petry, Sean Scully and Genesis Tramaine.
4 November 2024
Michael Petry is interviewed by Jonathan Evens about his upcoming ‘In League with Devils’ exhibition.
8 July 2024
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Fitzrovia Chapel, Ingleby, The Gallery of Everything, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cristea Roberts Gallery, The Parsonage Gallery, Wellhouse Gallery
2 July 2024
Michael Petry’s latest book, In League with Devils, beautifully weaves together his multidisciplinary practice. Book Signing with Michael Petry at Hatchards Piccadilly – Saturday 8th July, 2-4pm The signing will start at 2pm and run until 4pm
29 June 2023
The May Art Diary by Rev Jonathan Evens covers new books and selected exhibitions.
8 May 2023
The Luce Center for the Arts & Religion is presenting ‘In League with Devils’ by Michael Petry, an exhibition exploring forgotten gods, resurrected rituals & queer desire.
25 April 2023
Temporarily closed – will be extended at a later date
Michael Petry will make a landscape installation of his new acrylic on canvas paintings in the HSBC Space.
by appointment
Artists Michael Petry and William Cobbing are here in conversation in this exclusive interview for Artlyst.
28 April 2019
Michael Petry is a visual artist whose works often leads him to write about the topics of his artistic attention.
8 November 2018
The Holburne Museum has invited Petry to make a new feature installation and to place two other pieces about existing works in their collection.
16 October 2017
The visual artist, curator and writer Michael Petry is always pushing boundaries that blur the distinction between art and our… Read More
9 February 2016
A brand new installation by the multimedia artist Michael Petry (b.1960) in a Queen Anne townhouse, featuring glass sculptures created in direct… Read More
25 June 2015
Prime numbers are defined as whole numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and by the number 1 – for example,… Read More
7 April 2015
The London based international artist Michael Petry has been invited to make works at the Palácio dos Duques de Cadaval… Read More
11 October 2014
The Art of Not Making is the title of an acclaimed book published last year by artist/author Michael Petry, who asks; “What does a work of Art
2 April 2014
Gay Pride is again celebrated with simultaneous art exhibitions in London and New York showcasing the work of lesbian, gay,… Read More
5 July 2013
A Question of Sport: LGBT artists and their relationship to inclusivityThe Clifford Chance Art Group is again holding a joint… Read More
30 June 2012
London Artist creates visual complexity with new installation and book London based artist Michael Petry has launched a follow-up exhibition… Read More
17 April 2012
