Mick Peter, Tele Vistas Gallery, 2020

Artist Mick Peter has created a flatpack gallery and pop-up audience that allows you to curate your own exhibitions, and frame picturesque views, from the safety and comfort of your own home. Known for creating playful large scale sculptures (of scaled-up comic strip illustrations) that comment on the norms of art and exhibition making, Mick’s commission Tele Vistas Gallery not only provides us with “something fun to do IRL” but also invites us to question ideas of scale, distance, picture-making and what forms creativity and culture may take in a post covid world.

“ When you’re using the frames think about how you can make ‘paintings’ by framing landscapes and objects. What kind of painting do you like? Is it a view of the countryside, is it an abstract made by framing other kinds of scenes and objects? The best way to use the frame is to hold it up (or even stick it to your window). Try to get both the frame and what you’re seeing through it in focus….

The gallery is an opportunity for your to curate your own exhibition. What will go on the walls? Your own miniature artworks, or things cut out of magazines an newspapers? What kinds of sculpture will you put on your plinths? It could be an object made out of blu tack, a shell, a pine cone, a toy….”

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE A PACK REGISTER BELOW AND/OR CLICK ON FRAMES TO DOWNLOAD + PRINT

Please note numbers are very limited. Recipients will be asked to share videos and images of your Tele Vistas gallery, please! Suitable for all ages, though may be a little fiddly for very little fingers.

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Mick Peter is based in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in the New Forest.

Mick Peter’s playful installations incorporate imagery influenced by illustration and commercial art. His sculptures are often enlarged drawings, used to animate the narrative of his exhibitions which satirise the symbols of power and authority as well as art making itself.

He has recently had solo shows at BALTIC (2019), Deborah Bowmann, Brussels (2018/19), Glasgow International (2018), Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris (2017), Workplace, Gateshead (2016), Tramway, Glasgow (2015), and Drawing Room, London (2016), Popcorn Plaza, part of Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Jupiter Artland (2014) and Almost Cut My Hair, part of Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Tramway Hidden Gardens, (2014).

Recent group shows include ‘Voyage au long cours’ at FRACNormandie Caen (2018), Natural Selection' at Galerie 5, Angers (2016), France and 'Corps narratifs' at the Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France (2016). Puddle, pothole, portal at Sculpture Center, New York (2014), L’Echo at HAB Galerie - FRAC des Pays de la Loire, , (2014), Monument at FRAC Basse-Normandie, (2014), British British Polish Polish: Art from Europe's Edges in the Long '90s and Today at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, (2013)