Author / clairecollins
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ActOnition WhyWhyArt, Shanghai (June – September 2021)
WhyWhyArt initiates ActOnition – an Action performed in public spaces for individuals and activists to not only acknowledge personal responsibilities but to also Act On and to point out and change the unjust aspects of social behaviors.
June 11, 2021 -
Pretty Ugly, curated by Andrew Ekins (19 Jun-4 Jul 2021)
Pretty Ugly brings together the work of sixteen artists, all of whom explore a fugitive beauty within “a degraded sense of reality”(2.)
June 11, 2021 -
2021 TriBeca Film Festival (Contributing Artist) June 9th – June 20th
‘Art is New York/New York is Art,’ an initiative designed to celebrate 20 years of the Tribeca Festival Art Awards and artists supporting other artists while also helping to beautify the city as it reemerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 11, 2021 -
Owning the Past : Mesopotamia to Iraq. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The exhibition opens with a commissioned installation by the artist Piers Secunda. His powerful artwork is created from a reproduction of the Assyrian relief of a bird-headed spirit from Nimrud, Iraq, that now dominates the Museum’s Welcome Space.
December 1, 2020 -
Independent: Art made from Isis bullet hole damage goes on show for first joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
Piers Secunda is featured in this Independent article about the first joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan
August 29, 2018 -
Independent: Meet the British artist moulding records of the fight against Isis
Piers Secunda is a painter-cum-sculptor who decided to travel to the Kurdish frontlines of Iraq to “bring the noise of the world” into his studio
April 21, 2017 -
The Architects Newspaper – A snapshot of war with ISIS is on show at the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery
Piers Secunda was featured in The Architects Newspaper in April 2017. For ten years, artist Piers Secunda has been capturing the violent manifestations of geopolitics using industrial floor paint.
April 19, 2017 -
The Art Newspaper – Artist makes work out of Isis bullet holes
Piers Secunda made moulds of the bullet holes he found riddling the walls of the village buildings, and used these to create a series of plaster cast sculptures derived from ancient Greek and Assyrian reliefs.
March 31, 2017 -
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