Nat Pitt

selected cuarated projects 2009-2024

Division of Labour (gallerist 2015-Present)

A modest show (curator 2022-2023)

  1. Fayre Share Fayre
  2. Superpositions
  3. Camp Bread
  4. Making of a Sausage

tHe Manchester Contemorary (curator 2019-present)

  1. Collections Pavilion
  2. Alternative Gallery Spaces Pavilion
  3. Logistics Pavilion (see Pallet Show)
  4. Artist Studios Pavilion

6 shows about looking at art  (Curated series)

  1. Looking at People Looking at Art, Division of Labour, Bethnal Green, London (group show, co-curated by Mark Essen) 2018
  2. Looking at Art Looking at People, David Burrows, Jemma Egan, Luke McCreadie, Yelena Popova. Modern Clay, Birmingham 2019
  3. Looking at People, Looking at Themselves, Looking at Art
    Hilary Jack, University of Worcester 2021
  4. Looking at People Looking at Art in the Gallery from the Studio
    Kieran Leach, Division of Labour, Salford 2022
  5. Looking at Art Fair People Looking at Artists Looking at Art
    The Manchester Contemporary 2024
  6. Looking at People not looking at Art (not yet realised)

5 Things in life  (Curated series)

  1. Apparel (Clothing) 
  2. NHS (Welfare)
  3. Brickworks (Housing, not yet realised)
  4. Usery (Debt, not yet realised)
  5. Fayre Share Fayre (Food)

4 things about stuff (Curated series)

  1. Cryopreservation : Need Flowers Tomorrow?
    Syson Gallery, Nottingham (group)
  2. Fugazi, Division of Labour, London
    Andrew Lacon, Jasleen Kaur
  3. Microplastics Rain Down From the Sky, Worcester / Rotterdam
    Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Hilary Jack, Mark S Gubb
  4. COOL WARM HOT! University of Worcester
    Andrew Lacon, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Ruth Murray

4 shows about The Story of Art (Curated series)

  1. Of Art the Story,  Rotterdam
    Matthew Collings, Daniel Pryde Jarman
  2. Story of the Art (not realised)
  3. Art of the Story (not realised)
  4. The Art of Story (not realised)

3 shows about machines & Art (Curated series)

  1. News about Flowers (group sho)
  2. Yet More News about Flowers
    Andee Collard
  3. Hyper-Deflation
    Rosie McGinn, Dean Kenning

2 Group shows about INvisibility (Curated series)

  1. After, Division of Labour, London
    Robert Barry, Céline Berger, Cornford & Cross, Brian O'Doherty, Andrew Gillespie, Ned James, Andrew Lacon, Joanne Masding, Flore Nove-Josserand, Joe Fletcher Orr, Yelena Popova, Gavin Wade.

  2. Your Face has no Function for Me, Division of Labour, London
    David Blamey, Céline Berger, Matthew Cornford, Chto Delat, Mark Essen, Joe Fletcher Orr, John Kilduff, Saulius Leonavičius, Mark McGowan, Flore Nove-Josserand,Yelena Popova, David Rickard, Gavin Wade.

1  Group show about migration (selected)

  1. Migrant Re-visited
    Sonia Boyce, David Blackmoore, Mark S Gubb


Current artworks

Pallet show in collaboration  
with Daniel Pryde-Jarman

  1. Pallet Show 12, The Manchester Contemporary 2023
  2. Pallet Show ibid, University of Worcester 2023
  3. Pallet Show FREEPORT, The Minories, Colchester 2024
  4. Crate on Pallet, Paradise Works, Salford 2024
  5. Pallet Show & Abstract Kab,  Second Act gallery, London 2024
  6. Juxtaposed Art Fair - Arhaus (forthcoming 2025)




HONK! IF YOU (Heart) CONTEMPORARY ART (2010)
Nat Pitt, Matt Westbrook and Cheryl Jones , billboard car sticker at Eastside Projects, photo: Stuart Whipps.


The Itch  (artist-gallerist statement)

What follows is a career of two parts, where my work as an artist was put on hold during my Masters Degree in Fine Art at Wolverhampton where I became interested in the art market around 2007.  I started working  with other artists to facilitate exhibitions and shows, slowly finding my way into the gallery curcuit. Following a one year intensive course with De Appel in Amsterdam, 2013, I launched Division of Labour. I have always felt my gallery was an extension of my own art, my research interests in labour, work and leisure.  I am a gallerist, but there is an itch. So 2024 marked an end to my fallow years as an artist.  In a second act as an artist-curator, an educator, organiser and dealer..
                                                                            ... and part-time art book collector!
— Nat

Biography
Nat Pitt trained as an artist at Falmouth School of Art in 1997 and gained his MA from Wolverhampton University 2009 before becoming a fellow at De Appel in Amsterdam, ‘curating in the gallery field.’ Since 2013, Pitt has served as the Director for the gallery Division of Labour, a Salford based art gallery dedicated to supporting contemporary art across the UK. Representing; Céline Berger, Matthew Cornford, Gavin Wade, Yelena Popova, Andee Collard, Rosie McGinn, Andrew Lacon, Dean Kenning, Sam Curtis, Hilary Jack, Saulius Leonivicius, Angelina May Davis. With research interests in regional art market development, art and education and collaborative practice, projects have included artists Sonia Boyce, Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Ryan Gander, Brian O’Doherty, Jasleen Kaur and Carey Young. Pitt has developed an international profile for his gallery, with past presentations in Venice, Brussels, Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Basel, Vienna and Dallas. Most recently Pitt was the curator for A Modest Show 2022-23 the official collateral event for the Manchester leg of The British Art Show 9 Hayward Touring Exhibition.

—  Nat’s third person


CV

Nathaniel Pitt (b.1975  Wordsley, Black Country)
Lives and works in Worcester, Redditch, and Manchester, England

Education

1993-94 Bournville School of Art (Foundation Fine Art)
1994-97 Falmouth College of Art (BA Hons Fine Art)
1997-98 University of Birmingham (PGCE Art & Design)
2007-09 University of Wolverhampton (MA Fine Art)
2007 Dyslexia Statement University of Wolverhampton
2012-13 De Appel Amsterdam (Curatorial Studies)

Employment

2018 – Present 0.4  Fine Art Lecturer + Research, University of Worcester
2021 - 2022 0.1 MA Curating Studies Lecturer, Hereford College of Art
2015 – 2017 Northampton / Coventry Universities part time lecturer
2013/24 Visiting lecturer : Hereford, Slade 
2007 – 2013 Halesowen College part time lecturer
2002 – 2007 Oxford & Cherwell College, Oxford 
1999 – 2002 Northwest Kent College, Dartford Kent
1998 – 1999 La Salle Centre, Mauntauk Highway, Long Island, NY, USA 


Curator

2006 – Present: Gallery Director 
Division of Labour (DoL) Director (current gallery is in Salford previous venues in Malvern, Worcester, Bethnal Green) 
https://www. divisionoflabour.co.uk

2006 – Present: Gallery Director
PITT Studio. C.I.C – Director – (Curated over 40 group and solo shows, current gallery is in The Art House, University of Worcester )
https://www.pittstudio.com

2024 – Present: Director
Librarian Services
https://www.librarianservices.com

2022 - 2023 (end) : A Modest Show:  Curator. A City wide festival of Art in Manchester running alongside the British Art Show 09

2019-Present : The Manchester Contemporary / Curator of the biggest art fair outside London in the UK https://www.themanchestercontemporary.co.uk

2016 : Curatorial Bursary, MAC, Belfast, N. Ireland

2015 : GRAIN Birmingham Library Curatorial Bursary including: Unseen Photography Fair / Andrew Lacon, Stuart Whipps, Cornford & Cross

2015 : Curator of Plane Materials, Brighton Photography Biennial Andrew Lacon, Cornford & Cross Commissioned text by Elinor Morgan / Plane Materials publication.

Artist-Curator

2023- Present : Pallet Show in collaboration with Daniel Pryde-Jarman
www.pallets.show

Residencies

2012
5x5x5 Action Research / Art & Education
Bishops Perowne Secondary School, Worcester City / with Johnathan Kelham
Organised by Penny Hay & Steve Wilson. Patron – Richard Wentworth

2011
The Curfew Tower
Organised by ESP + Eastside Projects + Bill Drummond & In You We Trust foundation
Cushendall, N. Ireland

2010
The Oligarchy of Two
Polymer Kulture Factory, Tallinn, Estonia.

2009
Artothlon Residency
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuanian National TV.

2009 Feb – NAN travel bursary
a-n Artist Newsletter magazine.

2008 June - UN Conference.
Juiliet Gomperts Fellow
Vienna, Austria.

1998-1999 - La Salle Centre,
Long Island, New York, USA.

Selected duo/solo Exhibitions

2010
The Endless Toast / Charles Hastings Hall
Public Art commission by University of Worcester.

2009
The Assessment Show, Bessent Gallery, Wolverhampton.

Group Shows (working as an artist selected)

2011
Art Vilnius11’ International Art fair
Vilnius, Lithuania.
Exhibition included Cornford & Cross, John M Robinson and Saulius Leonavicius

Supernormal Festival – Working Men’s Klub / Installation in collaboration with Various Artist. Braziers Park, Oxford. Festival included Juneau Projects, Lucienne Cole, Tai Shani, Dirty Electronics in collaboration with Anat Ben-David and The a.P.A.t.T. Orchestra.

Re-considered – Two films made with Various Artist. Worcester City Art gallery & Contemporary Art Society. Exhibition included Heather & Ivan Morison, Sophy Rickett, Gerhard Stromberg Fiona Crisp, Paul Morrison, Dan Holdsworth, Richard Billingham, George Shaw, Grazia Toderi, David Rayson, Jem Southam, Carol Rhodes, Paul Seawright and Jacob Feige

2010
Report on the Delegation and Fact-Finding Mission, Estonia / The Oligarchy of Two, The Pedalto Institution of Incorporated Art.
Tallinn, Estonia

Conjunction 10, In the EVENT of fire.
Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Exhibition included Paul Rooney, Juneau Projects, Michael Branthwaite, Katie Shipley, Emily Candela, Various Artist, Yoke & Zoom and Adam James

Tell It To The Trees, Performance Day at Croft Castle Herefordshire.
Commissioned by Meadow Arts.
Exhibition includes Brass Art Juneau Projects, Mariele Neudecker, Philippa Lawrence, Clare Woods, Laura Ford, Holly Davey, Dan Whitehouse, Sparky Mark Baldwin, Mark Richards, Lee Hassall, Alex Metcalf and Lenny Alsop

Human, All Too Human by Nathaniel Pitt and Various Artist
commissioned by Birmingham City Council.
Exhibition included Trevor Pitt with Carolyn Morton, Arlene Burnett, Uddin and Elsey. Curated by Rob Colbourne, Rob Hewitt and Alex Johnson.

A Modest Proposal - Issue 14 An Endless Supply
Edited by Ruth Claxton and Sean O'keefe, Harry Blackett and Robin Kirkham.

2009

Interrogation Walsall, New Art Gallery Walsall.
commissioned by Multistory, lead-artist – Anna Francis.


Memberships, Conferences and Artists talks

 2022/23 - Castlefield Gallery talks

2010 – 2014 - Trustee - Meadow Arts.
Public Art Steering Group – University of Worcester.

2009 – 2014 -  Public Art Panel member, Worcester City Council
Secretary , Worcestershire Contemporary Artists.

2011
Artist Talk – Supernormal Festival chaired by Sacha Craddock
Performance - Happy Hypocrite, Eastside Projects, Maria Fusco and An Endless Supply
Poster Workshop – The Poster Club, ESP + Eastside Projects. The Poster Club members are: Laura Aldridge, Anne-Marie Copestake, Kendall Koppe, Tom O’Sullivan, Nicolas Party, Ciara Phillips, Michael Stumpf. Other guests included Tom Bloor, Helen Brown and Matt Westbrook.
Artist Talk - Re-Considered, Worcester City Art Gallery

2010
Artist Talk - The Making of a Modern City – MADE.
Curating Open exhibitions' Worcester City Art Gallery.
Selecting Open exhibitions' Worcester City Art Gallery.
Collections / Open exhibitions' Worcester City Art Gallery.
Artist Talk - 'Juried Exhibitions' Worcester City Art Gallery.
Artist Talk - 'A Modest Proposal' University of Worcester.
Artist Talk - 'The Art of Location' Meadow Arts / Hereford.

2009
Artist Talk - 'Collaboration' CAC Vilnius, Lithuania
Project Biennale, Venice publication review and talk with Michael Corris and Penny McCarthy, Sheffield Hallam.
Momentum, Bath Fringe Festival – in association with Alias and Kangaroo Kourt 2008
Artist Talk / NAN / Artist Newsletter, Worcester Museum chaired by Chris Brown.

2008
The Winner Takes It All – Delegation invitation – The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennale.

Funding Awards

2022 : A Modest Show / ACE Grants for the Arts funding,
supported by Greater Manchester Combined Authority  
2019-21 : ACE Grants for the Arts funding for PITT / Studio Covid continuation funding
2014 : ACE Grants for the Arts funding for PITT Studio  
2013 : ACE Grants for the Arts funding for PITT Studio 
2012 : ACE Grants for the Arts funding for PITT Studio 
2011 - ACE funding for W-CA projects
2009 - ACE funding for MECA, led by Andy Laffan and W-CA.
Art-o-thlon, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Shortlisted Commonwealth residency programme.
NAN bursary Artist Newsletter award for travel and research.

2008 - Juliet Gomperts Foundation: travel and production bursary –
The UN residency - Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
SPEED Fellow Creative Industries Award, University of Wolverhampton.