The Holburne Museum presents Copper & Dust, a new exhibition by Nicolas Party (b. 1980, Lausanne). The presentation brings together, in the Museum’s Picture Gallery, oil paintings on copper, works on linen and a new large-scale, site-specific mural executed in soft pastels.

Nicolas Party’s intimate oil on copper works, comprising landscapes, still-lifes and portraits, will be shown in two intimate cabinet galleries. Many of the artist’s oil on copper paintings are copies of his older pastels so that the exhibition might be seen as a mini-retrospective.

A new mural by the artist will respond specifically to one of the Museum’s 17th century works, A Brawl between Peasants by Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (1612–1652). He was a Dutch painter famed for his allegorical oil panels and landscapes, influenced by his contemporary Rembrandt’s use of dramatic light and shade.

Nicolas Party, Copper & Dust, Holburne Museum, 12 May - 31 August 2025.

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Image: Nicolas Party, Red Still Life, 2022, oil on copper, NPS-2321. Photography ©courtesy of the artist