Paintings of 100 mothers - Harry Pye
Harry Pye is an artist, writer and event organiser who was born in London in 1973. He undertook a foundation course at Camberwell School of Art in 1991 and then went on to study printmaking at Winchester School of Art. When he was in his second year he stopped painting and printmaking and started making films.
Some of his first films were interviews with artist and tutor Bruce McLean. He has since interviewed many other artists such as The Chapman Brothers, Wolfgang Tillmans and Keith Tyson. These interviews were published in various magazines including The Face and Untitled. He has also edited and published many art based fanzines of his own. The best known of these is probably "Harry Pye's FRANK Magazine" which ran from 1995 to 2000.
In May 2000 he was invited to curate an exhibition at Glassbox in Paris. A year later he organised a group show with 100 artists called "Mothers" which took place at The 'Oh Art' Gallery in The Oxford House of Bethnal Green, before going on to tour the North Edinburgh Art Centre in Scotland. Pye didn't actually contribute any artwork of his own to these exhibitions. He only began making paintings of his own in 2004 having been inspired by a Royal Academy exhibition of Philip Guston.