Nat Pitt                      

selected cuarated projects 2009-2024
[links where available are underlined, more to follow]
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Division of Labour (gallerist 2016-Present)

PiTT Studio c.I.C (Curator 2013- 2025)
Selected Exhibitions : 

  1. Migrant Re-visited : Sonia Boyce, David Blackmoore, Mark S Gubb
  2. A Council of Voices: Vanley Burke
  3. Est.1690 : Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Jo Spence, Vanley Burke, The Artist Taxi Driver, Gavin Wade, Henrik Shcrat, John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres
  4. P is for Portrait : John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres, Céline Berger, Luke Burton, Chudamani Clowes, Francesca Currie, Jemma Egan, José Fiol, Louise Giovanelli, Jasleen Kaur, Ana Kazaroff, Peter Kennard, Dean Kenning, Nevan LaHart, Cedar Lewisohn, Andrew Mania, The Artist Taxi Driver, Joe Fletcher Orr, Sally Payen, Yelena Popova, John M Robinson, Luke Routledge, Amaal Said, Jo Spence, Gavin Wade, Clare Woods, Rafal Zar


A modest show (curator 2022-2023)
40 venues / 20 new commissions/ over 100 artists 
Satalite show to British Art Show9 2022 

  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
  5. Press Pavilion (forthcoming)

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) 2015
  2. Looking at Art Looking at People, David Burrows, Jemma Egan, Luke McCreadie, Yelena Popova. Modern Clay, Birmingham 2017
  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.


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)


P is for Portrait (2019) The Art House, University of  Worcester.
co-curated by Gavin Wade



P is for Portrait


A-Z

Notes on A-Z Type Display Units (After Kiesler and Krischanitz)’

Artist-curator Gavin Wade is creating an A-Z alphabet of display structures adapted from the artist and architect Frederick Kiesler’s ‘L-Type’ and ‘T-Type’ Display Unit’s of 1924 and Adolf Krischanitz’s ‘Secession Mobile Wall System’ of 1986. Both display systems were made in Vienna, Kiesler’s for the ‘Exhibition of New Theatre Technique at the Konzerthaus, and Krischanitz’s as a permanent wall system as part of his renovation of the Vienna Secession. 

The structure of Wade’s new display units are loosely based on Kiesler’s attempts to develop a new language of form for installation through a grouping of freestanding demountable supports. Each unit deploys a careful balance of vertical, horizontal and diagonal beams, slatted surfaces and plinths or seats for the adjustable positioning of artworks for display.


                       
P-Type Display Unit (After Kiesler and Krischanitz) Gavin Wade (2017) On loan from a Private Collection



In 2011 Wade first borrowed a set of Mobile Walls from Vienna, before reverse engineering the originals to produce his new 10-panel version as ‘Mobile Wall System with 41 permanent pole positions on a square and triangular grid (After Adolf Krischanitz)’ for Eastside Projects in 2011.



P is for Portrait, P-Type Display Unit plays host to a number of artworks by other artists operating as a curated microcosm or a complete exhibition in itself.

Artists:

John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres, Céline Berger, Luke Burton, Chudamani Clowes, Francesca Currie, Jemma Egan, José Fiol, Louise Giovanelli, Jasleen Kaur,
Ana Kazaroff, Peter Kennard, Dean Kenning, Nevan LaHart, Cedar Lewisohn, Andrew Mania, The Artist Taxi Driver, Joe Fletcher Orr, Sally Payen, Yelena Popova, John M Robinson, Luke Routledge, Amaal Said, Jo Spence, Gavin Wade, Clare Woods, Rafal Zar


The Artist Taxi Driver


Lynda, Joe and Richard by Joe Flecther Orr


 Untitled (Stipey) Clare Woods
Emulsion on board


Untitled by Louise Gionavelli
Oil on Canvas
[supported by A-Frame, Gavin Wade}

Jo SPENCE 1934 - 1992 
The Final Project - Metamorphosis, 1992 Collaboration with Terry Dennett Set of 4 black and white photographs. Posthumous Each: 62 x 45,5 cm, 36 x 46 cm, 32 x 46 cm, Ed. of 1 



Marbled Busts, 2015 by Jasleen Kaur
Polyurathene Plastic and Pigment, Commissioned by Jerwood Makers 




Also at this time : Est. 1690 #4