Using Art To Change The World
Perspectives Spring 2022.
Video from Ode To The Oceans exhibition at Super Blue.
Platform Earth
The eco-art organisation making a stand at Frieze.
Reaching For The Stars
Lux Magazine article 2021 - Petroc Sesti
Sagittarius-A and Solar Relay IV in show at Manifesta 13 2020 Biennale
Interview by Anna Reinhardt for France2 Telematin
Prudential Eye Awards 2017 - 2018
Prudential Eye Awards, Singapore 2017 - 2018
As a co-judge for the sculpture award, Petroc has been part of the Prudential Eye Awards For Contemporary Asian Art for the last two years.
Taking place at the Marina Bay Sands, Hotel Singapore, the awards recognise the best emerging Asian contemporary artists as well as the leading exhibitions, galleries, institutions and art critics working to promote Asian contemporary art.
Ocean Ball 2018
The Ocean Ball 2018, in partnership with Stena Recycling, and The Perfect World Foundation
In June 2018 Petroc attended the The Ocean Ball, in Stockholm Sweden. As part of the artist’s long standing passion for conservation and the environment, and new work by the ground breaking Stena Recycling offer the opportunity for developing new techniques to tackle the levels of plastic in the ocean and use the reclaimed material in the production of artworks that draw attention to the worlds endangered ecosystems.
Hosted by biologist Silvia Earle the Ocean Ball brings together like minded philanthropic individuals and organisations looking to make a lasting change to protect the future of our planet and its sustainability.
Petroc Sesti & Open City Educational Program
During Sculpture in the City Petroc Sesti Studio was involved in a series of educational talks to local schools organised by Open City. The lectures were aimed at exposing the children to art and giving them the tools to develop it themselves.
In Solar | Relay, the discussion was interdisciplinary, exploring the links between Art and Science and how the two meet and inform each other within the piece.
Prudential Eye Awards
Petroc Sesti is an ambassador and part of the selection committee for Prudential Eye Awards. Pan Asian contemporary art awards for emerging artists held in Singapore.
GOLD CYGNUS X1 AT SOTHEBY'S
X-1 ANDROMEDA
Petroc Sesti at Sotheby's New York
Ruth Powys of the Elephant Family
"Back in London, she and Mark worked together with artists, designers and musicians on a series of increasingly spectacular fundraisers (creatives, she points out, are the lifeblood of the charity; we have met today in the studio of artist Petroc Sesti, one of its key supporters)."
SCULPTURE IN THE CITY
Petroc Sesti’s TIME FOLD launches at this year’s ‘Sculpture in the City 2013’, the annual public realm sculptural exhibition held in London’s ‘Square Mile’ insurance district. The sculpture will be on show from the 16th October to December 2013 courtesy of the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels.
The launch is a Guided Tour at 11am Tuesday 15th October in front of the Gherkin 30 St Mary Axe.
This follows on from talks by the artists held at 9:30 on the top floor of the Gherkin which unfortunately is sold out.
Special thanks to: The City of London, Whitney Hintz, and The Boghossian Foundation
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/sculptureinthecity
Also showing at:
2013 – Theatre Du Monde, Maison Rouge Paris, Curated By Jean-Hubert Martin
2013 – Blue Route , The Boghossian Foundation Brussels September 2013.
2013 – Tsao Collection, Yuzi Sculpture Park, Guilin China.
Petroc Sesti is currently representing Great Britain at the 9th Shanghai Biennale, China.
THEATRE DU MONDE
Les collections de David Walsh / Museum of Old and New Art et du Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Commissaire de l’exposition: Jean-Hubert Martin.