Your Masterpiece is in the Post: Peter Liversidge and Phill Jupitus in Conversation

Peter Liversidge and Phill Jupitus will be discussing artists who entrust their finished works to the postal system and the pitfalls and benefits of this high risk practice.

About Peter Liversidge

Peter Liversidge (born 1973, Lincoln) is a British contemporary artist known for his wide-ranging practice and distinctive use of typed proposals. He studied Fine Art at the University of Plymouth and film and photography at Montana State University, and works across photography, sculpture, live performance, film, and mail art.

His engagement with the postal system is a long-standing thread in his work: as a student he famously sent his studio chair to Spacex Gallery in Exeter piece by piece, posting all 26 components separately and unwrapped. More recently, his exhibition Surface Mail at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven brought together postal objects from a private collection.

Liversidge has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad, including at Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery, the V&A, the British Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and his work is held in collections including Tate, the British Council, the British Library, and the Museum of London.

About Phill Jupitus

Phill Jupitus drifted aimlessly onto national television in the mid 1990s after trying a number of different careers in the arts on for size. Unfortunately for him television was not that challenging, quite comfortable and paid very well so there he remained until around 2019, also along the way, dabbling in film, writing, theatre, music, poetry and breakfast radio.

Having started as a self taught cartoonist/designer in the early 1980s, he had often wondered if perhaps he had missed out by not undertaking a formal arts education. So he enrolled on a BA course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. Despite never completing the course he persists in making art to this day.

He has been made an honorary Doctor of Arts by both Essex University and the University of Kent, and lives on the East coast of Scotland with his wife and an overly demanding Labrador.