Peter T. McCarthy
Redemption is not just about rescue or repair. It is about being welcomed into a bigger narrative. This new ongoing series is built from mistakes, discarded or left over materials. What happens when we refuse to let failure have the last word?
This is WHERE THE LINE BENDS.
works in progress
HIGHLIGHTS FROM PAST SERIES
ANTHEMS
REGALIA
GROUNDED
TRÔNUS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
N’Zassa: Making Things Work, Craft + Design Canberra, Canberra, Australia
Autrement, Musée de Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungaga, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire2021
Rencontre Insolite, La Rotonde des Arts, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Mal: Délimité, A[rt]péro, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
La Mue, A[rt]péro, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire2020
Phénix Indigo, A[rt]péro, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire2019
Liminal View, Gallery ONE88, Katoomba, NSW, Australia.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Gallipoli Art Prize finalists exhibition, Atherden Street, The Rocks, NSW, Australia
2023
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Australia
Africa Foto Fair: World Collection, Musée de Cultures Contemporains Adama Toungara, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
2022
The 7th International Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition “Fibremen”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine.
Crafting the Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW, Australia
Contextile Textile Biennale, Palácio do Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal
Loewe Craft Prize 2022 finalists exhibition, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul, Republic of South Korea
Entre Deux Mondes, RIANA 6th édition Pièce Unique and Le Basquiat Galerie, Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire
Témoins du Temps, Sofitel Hotel Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Aporia, Pavé d’Orsay, Paris, France
2021
Sources/Ressources, Rencontres Internationales des Arts Numériques et Visuels d’Abidjan 5th edition (three concurrent exhibitions in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
2020
Bernard Tano & Peter T. McCarthy, Walls House of Art, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
SELECTED PRESS
Blackwell, Gareth (ed), New Christian Makers (1:2024) pp 84–87Surface Design Association, “Unconventional Materials Award,” Surface Design Journal (Fall 2022) pp 38–40Diallo, Aïssatou, ‘Abidjan accueille trois expositions majeures à la Rotonde des art, au MuCAT et à la Fondation Donwahi’, Jeune Afrique, 15 April, 2023. Available: https://www.jeuneafrique.com/1433920/culture/abidjan-accueille-trois-expositions-majeures-a-la-rotonde-des-art-au-mucat-et-a-la-fondation-donwahi/Bony, Valerie, “Lorsqu’on the demande de lever les yeux vers la haut, n’oublie pas ce qui est a coté de es pieds.” BBC News Afrique Magazine de la culture, 15 April 2023. Available: https://www.bbc.com/afrique/bbcafriqueradio/w172z5frz74vyrzBerti S & E Shafei, ‘Peter T. McCarthy’, Contemporary Identities (17:2022) pp 26-31 (cover)Sanou, A. Art, design, textile / Peter McCarthy : Une fusion du divin et du profane
décembre 13, 2021 FaraFina Culture https://www.farafinaculture.com/2021/12/13/art-design-textile-peter-mccarthy-une-fusion-du-divin-et-du-profane/“Les Echos de la Culture: Peter T. MCCARTHY”, in CITV : Culture Ivoire Television, 23 December 2021. available: https://www.facebook.com/citvofficiel/videos/323678752773698/“Shelter”, Anderson, Janet in Collected 2.2. 2021 available: https://mailchi.mp/8e59fa2a0ad0/collected-inspired-responses-for-shelter
AWARDS
2024
Gallipoli Art Prize, finalist2023
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, finalist2022
Surface Design Association Exhibition in Print Unconventional Materials Award recipient.
Loewe Craft Prize, finalist
Contextile Textile biennale, finalist