Richard McVetis
Works
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Linear Abstract II, 2019£ 2,400.00View more details -
White Circle on Black I, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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White Circle on Black II, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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White Circle on Black III, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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White Circle on Black IV, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
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White Circle on Black V, 2022£ 2,200.00View more details
Series
Exhibitions
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20 Years of Cavaliero Finn
Revisit Cavaliero Finn's landmark 20th anniversary exhibition at Stockwell Studio 8 May - 1 Aug 2024In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since.Read more
For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio.
Revisit this exhibition online now.
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Elemental Lines
Cavaliero Finn at Ballroom Arts 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AQ UK 8 - 18 Jun 2023This exhibition, which coincided with the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk, took place in Ballroom Arts a beautiful space overlooking the North Sea. Elemental Lines examined how the lines of the...Read more -
The London Art Fair 2023
Cavaliero Finn presents Into the Night - Encounters 2023 18 - 22 Jan 2023Contemporary art gallery Cavaliero Finn exhibits at the London Art Fair 2023 with a presentation of art work by painters David Edmond, Catherine Knight, Kate Sherman, Mia Cavaliero, Judith Tucker and Trevor Burgess; textiles by Richard McVetis; ceramics by Jaejun Lee and sculptural furniture and lighting by Craig Bamford.Read more
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Biography
Richard McVetis MA RCA - Richard's practice is deeply rooted in process, and intrinsic to this is hand embroidery. His installations, drawings, and embroideries span across the congruity of macro and micro, often monochromatic and labour intensive. He records time and space through multiple dots, lines, and crosses. These meticulously rendered stitches reflect a preoccupation with the repetitive nature of process. Richaard explores the subtle differences that emerge through ritualistic and habitual making. These inscribed patterns mark the hand's rhythms, a delicate performance of obsessive intricacy, refinement, and gesture. They record human presence, time and decay, each stitch or line acting as a marker for lived time, an embodiment of thought and patience. These physical, tactile, and repetitive modes of creation allow him the time to see and think, to occupy a space.
In his new series of works, Richard examines his enduring fascination with outer space, our connection to material, place, and our intrinsic relationship to the cosmos. In making this work Richard seeks to connect and regain persepctive in world of disorder.
Richard McVetis graduated in Constructed Textiles from the Royal College of Art in 2008. Since completing his BA in Embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005, he has been shortlisted for several distinguished prizes, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize, UK, 2011 and 2017; and the international Loewe Craft Prize, 2018. In addition, Richard has shown work nationally and internationally at several exhibitions, including The British Textile Biennial, Rossendale, UK, 2021; RENEW at Kettles Yard, UK, 2019; Loewe Craft Prize, The Design Museum, London, UK, 2018; Collect Open, Saatchi Gallery, UK, 2017; 'Form + Motion' - a major exhibition with British Council and Crafts Council for the Cheongju Craft Biennale, South Korea, 2017. In 2022 he had his first solo show at the Craft Study Centre, Farnham. McVetis is a Tutor in Textiles at the Royal College of Art, London.
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State of the Art
Homes and Gardens Jul 1, 2024Cavaliero Finn is delighted to see 3 of the 6 artists mentioned as textile artists to invest in in July's edition of Homes and Garden...Read more -
20 Years of Cavaliero Finn
Revisit Cavaliero Finn's landmark 20th anniversary exhibition at Stockwell Studio 8 May - 1 Aug 2024In 2004, Juliana Cavaliero and Debra Finn curated their first exhibition as Cavaliero Finn in a home in South London and they haven't looked back since. For this exhibition, Cavaliero Finn returned to its South London roots to celebrate its 20th birthday at Stockwell Studio. The exhibition featured a wide range of artists who have shown with the gallery over the last 20 years including work by our current portfolio of artists and work from some of our earlier artists, like painters Holly Frean, Daisy Cook and Caroline Popham, paper artist Thurle Wright, designer makers Sam Edkins and Deborah Bowness, and sculptors Tom Stogdon, Danuta Solowiej, Merete Rasmussen and Patricia Volk who returned to the gallery as guest artists for this show. The exhibition also included an installation by textile artist Isabelle Fletcher and new work by Lise Herud Braten, the most recent additions to the Cavaliero Finn portfolio. Revisit this exhibition online now.Read more -
Elemental Lines
Cavaliero Finn at Ballroom Arts 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AQ UK 8 - 18 Jun 2023This exhibition, which coincided with the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk, took place in Ballroom Arts a beautiful space overlooking the North Sea. Elemental Lines examined...Read more -
The London Art Fair 2023
Cavaliero Finn presents Into the Night - Encounters 2023 18 - 22 Jan 2023Contemporary art gallery Cavaliero Finn exhibits at the London Art Fair 2023 with a presentation of art work by painters David Edmond, Catherine Knight, Kate Sherman, Mia Cavaliero, Judith Tucker and Trevor Burgess; textiles by Richard McVetis; ceramics by Jaejun Lee and sculptural furniture and lighting by Craig Bamford.Read more