Peter Kirby

BIO

Peter Kirby is an artist and writer living at the end of a dirt track in Cornwall with his wife, daughters and dog. His practice hybridizes written and visual dimensions to make artworks with words. These text-based narratives take multiple forms; sculpture, photography, performance, painting, printed matter and the landscape. His work appeared in galleries, books, journals, biennales, newspapers, museums and streets around the world, including The Guardian, Design Museum, Drawbridge, Channel 4, LACE Gallery LA, Material Journal, PEN Free The Word, The US Postal Service and Customs, Tate St Ives in collaboration with Richard Long and the first 2 London Architectural Biennales. He was creative director of Cornwall Design Season 2011, and also helped to launch The Big Lunch with the Eden Project. He sits on the board of Caliban CIC. He is currently working on a travelling school for wayward kids, several half-formed books and an ongoing art project that may see the light of day when he’s long gone. RECENT WORKS: STAGE (Cornwall Art Biennale) 2013, Abridged Sentences for Sol LeWitt – Material Limited Edition Project Space, storywriter for Cultural Olympiad in Cornwall

PETER’S LINKS

http://www.materialpress.org/limitededitions/2013/PeterKirby/