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BBC News Coverage of the Ashmolean Museum exhibition: “Owning the Past : Mesopotamia to Iraq”

Piers speaks to the BBC News about his commissioned installation at the Ashmolean Museum.

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The Arab Weekly: Iraq heritage: from the cradle of civilisation to the vortex of destruction

Piers Secunda was featured in The Arab Weekly about his involvement in the exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum.

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The National: The new London show that celebrates the works of Kurdish artists

Piers Secunda is featured in The National by Melissa Gronlund.

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Piers Secunda is featured in Kurdsat TV.

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Middle East Monitor: Kurdish art comes to London

Piers Secunda is featured in Middle East Monitor.

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Kurdistan 24: ‘Road through Kurdistan’ exhibition celebrates Kurdish culture in London

Piers Secunda is featured in Kurdistan 24 by Wladimir van Wilgenburg.

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University of Houston: Painter spotlights the ‘art’ of decimation of Iraqi, Kurdish culture

Piers Secunda is featured in University of Houston by Katherine Adams.

The Guardian

The Guardian: Art that survived Isis and Saddam regimes to go on display in London

Piers Secunda is featured in The Guardian by Henry McDonald.

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University of Houston: Art exhibition props stories of the past alongside the wars of the present

Piers Secunda is featured in University of Houston by Aldana Reyes.

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The Art Newspaper: Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction

Piers Secunda is featured in The Art Newspaper by Aimee Dawson.

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Imperial War Museums: What Remains: Creating Art From Destruction

Piers Secunda is featured in Imperial War Museums.

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ArtCanvas: This artist captures what’s gone after the destruction wrought by ISIS

Piers Secunda is featured in ArtCanvas by Jill Ditmire.

The Times

The Times: What Remains, Imperial War Museum — cataloguing the damage done to ancient art by Isis and the Taliban

Piers Secunda was featured in The Times by Christina Lamb.

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Document: Piers Secunda turns back time on ISIS’ cultural destruction

Piers Secunda is featured in Document Journal article by Caroline Christie.

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NPR: Saving Culture: The Art Of Piers Secunda

Piers Secunda was featured in this NPR Interview with Jill Ditmire

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WFYI Radio: Saving Culture: The Art Of Piers Secunda

Piers Secunda is featured in WFYI Radio by Jill Ditmire.

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NBC WTHR – Artist turns ISIS destruction into gallery exhibit

Piers Secunda’s exhibition at the Long Sharp Gallery in Indianapolis was featured on NBC WTHR.

Frieze Magazine

Frieze – Cultural Destruction Paintings

Piers’ exhibition at the Iraqi Ambassadors residence in London was featured on the Frieze website and magazine.

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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

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The Art Newspaper – First joint UK project between Iraq and Kurdistan

Piers Secunda was featuring on The Art Newspaper article regarding his exhibition at the Iraqi ambassador’s private residence.

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Muse TV – Artist Piers Secunda

Piers Secunda is raising awareness of cultural destruction through art, imposing damage from isis bullet holes into replicas of ancient artworks.

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Financial Times – New works by British artist Piers Secunda

New works by artist Piers Secunda incorporate casts made directly from bullet holes made by Isis in three villages in Iraq, arranging the holes into moulds of Victorian casts of Greek and Assyryan reliefs.

Whitehot Magazine – Piers Secunda’s Long Road to ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings

Whitehot Magazine – Piers Secunda’s Long Road to ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings

Monocle Radio interview with Piers Secunda

Monocle Radio interview with Piers Secunda

Time Out New York

Time Out – See this inspiring exhibition of artwork full of bullet holes

Of course, ISIS has wrought its greatest destruction against Iraq and Syria and now, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in Chelsea is making some of that damage palpable in a show called “ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings” by artist Piers Secunda.

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The Village Voice – ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings

Piers Secunda was featured in The Village Voice highlighting his exhibition at the Thomas Jaeckel Gallery in New York.

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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

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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.

The Knockturnal – Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Holes Paintings

The Knockturnal – Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Holes Paintings

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Juxtapoz Magazine – Piers Secunda’s “ISIS bullet hole paintings” are a carefully crafted record of cultural violence

Juxtapoz Magazine – Piers Secunda’s “ISIS bullet hole paintings” are a carefully crafted record of cultural violence

Artsy website – Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Holes Paintings April 6 – May 6, 2017

Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Holes Paintings April 6 – May 6, 2017

Blouin art info website – “Piers Secunda: ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings”

Piers Secunda , “ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings” exhibition was mentioned at Blouin art info website news: https://blouinnews.com  …

Editors’ Picks: 9 Things to See in New York This Week

Editors’ Picks: 9 Things to See in New York This Week

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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.

creative Review

Should museums be recreating the past?

Piers Secunda was featured in this article by Creative Review

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Piers Secunda Unleashes the Horrors of War at the Duke House

Piers Secunda’s exhibition at the Duke House in New York was featured in ArtNet

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Exhibition Review: The Missing

Piers Secunda was featured on the Palestine Exploration Fund blog.

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Robb Report – Home and Style

Piers’s work was featured in a review of Context New York in the Robb Report

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ISIS damaged art comes to London

Piers Secunda was featured on the Londonist in April 2016.

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BBC coverage

Piers Secunda was featured on the BBC in April 2016.

Hyperallergic Magazine

In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past

Piers Secunda was featured in this article by Hyperallergic.

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Piers Secunda. Archived Oil

Piers Secunda’s exhibition at the David Krut Projects Gallery in New York was featured in the WSI Magazine.

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Oil Paint: Piers Secunda Captures Birth of Industry

At an opening on Jan 29 at the David Krut Projects Gallery at 526 West 26 Street, Jessica Carlisle and Krut introduced British artist, Piers Secunda, 38, and his “Archived Oil”

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Piers Secunda – William Hollman Gallery

Piers Secunda’s exhibition at the William Hollman Gallery on Ludlow Street, New York was featured on the luxury channel

1 and a half minute film about the Crude Oil Paintings

A brief explanation of the on going series of crude oil prints.

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Piers Secunda brings geopolitical works of art to New York

Piers Secunda’s exhibition at the William Hollman Gallery on Ludlow Street, New York was featured in Art and ArtWorks

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Piers Secunda: A Retrospective

Piers Secunda’s solo exhibition at Uptown Gallery was featured in Planet Notion.

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Piers Secunda: A Retrospective

Piers Secunda’s solo exhibition at Uptown Gallery was featured in Art Update.

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Major solo exhibition by pioneering artist Piers Secunda opens at Uptown Gallery

Piers Secunda’s solo exhibition at Uptown Gallery was featured in Art Daily.

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V&A Moulds

Piers’s moulds of art damage outside for V&A museum were featured in the Art Newspaper.