Peter Doherty’s visual works form communicating vessels together with his literary and musical
creations. None excludes the other and everywhere poetry and magic can arise and connect. In terms of content, Doherty’s visual opus functions as an analogue hypertext, a non-linear web of
information and cross-references, characterized by ambiguity, intertextuality, associativity and recontextualization.
Peter Doherty „Contain yourself (seriously)“ at janinebeangallery 2022
The typewriter artworks of Peter Doherty are sequences and little windows giving insight into his mind and examination of the world. This is not only perceptible by reading the texts but also in the pieces of paper they are written on, giving evidence in many ways of the moment and place they were created in. The varying types of paper from different locations and cultures, its aged and fragmental condition, little added illustrations and imprints, notes with pen and pencil, – these features are all synchronized with the text. Circumstances have resulted in the texts as they have worked on the paper. As such these typewritten texts are much more than containers of textual content, they synaesthetically merge into the visual creations they are written on.
PETER DOHERTY
“A Little Death Around the Eyes”
Fine art print on 310g Hahnemühle William Turner paper
Motif dimensions: 48.4 x 40 cm, external dimensions: 54.4 x 46 cm
Edition of 50 pieces
About the motif:
Peter Doherty has collaged a punk rock icon, Sid Vicious,
and surrounded it with his own texts.