Very colourful trees like different shaped balloons on a thin stem, of differing heights, on an orange background

Nicolas Party: Copper & Dust

Exhibition passed: 12 May 2025 – 31 August 2025

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Nicolas Party: Copper & Dust

Our installation brought together recent works by Nicolas Party. Born in Switzerland in 1980, Party is well-known for his soft pastel works, site-specific murals and immersive installations. The latter are influenced by his early work as a graffiti artist, his training in graphic design and 3D animation, and his love of 18th century pastels – examples of which feature in our collection.

Within the exhibition, Party’s intimate oil on copper works comprising landscapes, still-lifes and portraits were shown in two intimate cabinet galleries.

In the Picture Gallery, he created a large-scale mural responding to one of the works in our collection: A Brawl between Peasants by Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (1612–1652). Party became interested in the work following extensive research into the Holburne’s collection after visiting in 2023.

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With additional support from:

The Holburne Contemporary Circle

Nicolas Party, Still Life, 2025, oil on copper, NPS-3084. Photography Adam Reich. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute
Nicolas Party, Mountains, 2023, oil on copper, NPS-2107. Photography Adam Reich. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute
Nicolas Party, Dinosaurs, 2023, oil on copper, NPS-2990. Photography Adam Reich. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute