Harry Pye

Harry Pye is an artist, writer and event organiser. In March 2007 Jessica Lack of The Guardian described him as, "the master of lo fi British art". Harry William Pye was born in London in 1973. He completed a foundation course at Camberwell School of Art in 1991. He then studied printmaking at Winchester School of Art from 1992 to 1995. In his second year he stopped painting and printmaking and began making films. His first films were interviews with artist and tutor Bruce McLean. He has interviewed many other artists such as Humphrey Ocean, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Keith Tyson for various publications including The Face Turps Banana and Untitled. He has also edited and published numerous art based fanzines of his own, most notably, "Harry Pye's FRANK Magazine" which ran from 1995 to 2000. Since 2005 Pye has written a column about the London art scene for the timeless Estonian newspaper, Epifanio (See: www.epifanio.eu) as well as being the editor of The Rebel magazine.

In May 2000 he was invited to curate an exhibition at Glassbox in Paris, France. The name of this show was, "It May Be Rubbish, But It's British Rubbish". In 2002 he curated a show at The Bart Wells Institute in London Fields called, "Viva Pablo". (Reviewed by Fisun Guner for the Metro Newspaper, Thursday, 29 August 2002.) A year later he organised a group show with 100 artists called, 100 MOTHERS which took place at The Oh Art Gallery in The Oxford House of Bethnal Green and then toured to the North Edinburgh Art Centre in Scotland. This exhibit was also included in The Other Art Fair in 2013. In November 2006 he put together, "For Peel" at the NOMOREGREY gallery in Shoreditch. This exhibition was a tribute to the D.J. John Peel and consisted of more than 60 artists including Jessica Voorsanger, Sarah Doyle and Cathy Lomax all of whom had made work relating to a band or singer that John Peel had discovered or championed. Pye didn't contribute any artwork of his own to these exhibitions. According to press release material he only began making paintings of his own in 2004 having been inspired by a Royal Academy exhibition of Philip Guston and a show about Mathias Kauage at the Horniman Museum which both took place in this same year.

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