KENNY PITTOCK: Good Things Come In Pears!

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Good Things Come In Pears!

Hi there, hope you're having a nice start to 2024!

If you're in Melbourne this Friday January 19th, come along to the opening celebrations of the Darebin Art Prize, from 6-8pm at the beautiful Bundoora Homestead. Everyone welcome.

I'm so pleased to have my inflatable piece The World's Gone Pear Shaped selected as a finalist in the prize alongside many fantastic artists.

The World’s Gone Pear Shaped

300cm x 300cm x 200cm. Durable PVS coated vinyl. Fan. Lighting. 2022.

The Darebin Art Prize is open from now until March 23rd so please be sure to visit if you find yourself in the area.

For more info click here!

In other news, the group exhibition Question The Space continues at Walker Street Gallery until March 1st. The exhibition features works by artists Rachel Burke, Ross Coulter, Jordan Fleming, Guerrilla Girls, Melbourne Art Library, Kent Morris, Dean Norton, Tina Patlas, Nick Selenitsch, TextaQueen and myself.

For more info please click here!

And to hear an interview I did about the exhibition on the Triple R radio show Smarts Arts please click here and skip forward to two hours and 28 minutes into the podcast.

Neapolitan Scoop
Synthetic Polymer Paint on kiln fired ceramic. 28cm x 24cm x 23cm. 2023.

And last but not least I have four works in the current exhibition on now at Olsen Gallery in Sydney. The group show features many great artists, celebrating the Olsen Galleries 30th anniversary.

The exhibition is open until January 30th, for more info please click here!

Here's three new ceramic sculptures of shopping lists featured in the exhibition, based on actual shopping lists I found while working at a supermarket.