Natalia Grabowska, Curator at Large, Architecture and Site-Specific Projects and Laurence Passera lead a tour of Peter Doig: House of Music.
Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work. Conceived as a multi-sensory environment, visitors are invited to pause and linger as they look and listen, transforming the gallery into a place of contemplation, reflection and conversation.
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Biographies
Peter Doig (b. 1959, Edinburgh, Scotland) grew up in Trinidad and Canada before moving to London to study at Saint Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. Since 2002, he has divided his time between London and Trinidad where he set up a studiofilmclub, an influential repertoire cinema club he hosted in his studio in Laventille.
Major survey exhibitions include Tate Britain, London (2008, travelled to ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2008–09); No Foreign Lands, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2013, travelled to Musée des beauxarts de Montréal, 2014); Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (2014–15); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2020); and Courtauld Gallery, London (2023). In 2023–24, he curated the exhibition Reflections of the Century at Musée d’Orsay, Paris, which placed his works in dialogue with selections from the museum’s collection. Doig taught for many years, notably at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany, where he held a professorship from 2004 to 2017. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, and in 2008 was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. Doig was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Painting in 2025.
Drawn from a young age to London subculture, Laurence Passera was immersed in both music as well fashion through assisting iconic ‘Buffalo’ stylist Ray Petri. Whilst developing his love of image and technique as a fashion photographer, he committed equally to researching ‘audio’ in what he saw was a harmonious beauty of music and machine.
His study of ‘class A triode’ sound technology ultimately led him to the early pioneering cinematic sound systems, of which he has become an authority. This in turn, inspired his extensive search and rescue mission across the UK to locate and restore these rare surviving examples of this majestic equipment.
