Peter Liversidge

Peter Liversidge first staged the project Flags for Edinburgh in 2013, as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival programme; inviting buildings across the city to fly a white flag printed with the word “HELLO.” The flags returned in 2020, flying from hotels, galleries, schools and public buildings, as the city emerged from the Covid-19 lockdown. The flags send a collective greeting from one institution and community to the next, and out to the wider world.

Peter Liversidge, Flag

Peter Liversidge was born in 1973 and studied Fine Art in Exeter at the University of Plymouth and film and photography at Montana State University-Bozeman. He undertook a residency and commission for Vital Arts at the Royal London Hospital in 2012-13. Liversidge has worked with institutions across Europe, including the Tate Gallery, Liverpool; The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Finland. Major solo exhibitions have also recently been presented at i8 Gallery, Reykjavik; Basis, Frankfurt; Whitechapel Gallery, London and Van Abbe Museum, The Netherlands and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut from May 2016 – February, 2017.