PIA’S WORLD

Gallery X VITAMIN presents the drawings and the book PIA’S WORLD by Julia Peyton-Jones, British curator, gallery director and artist in the author’s presence. The drawings by the author and published in the book are exclusively exhibited in X VITAMIN gallery from September 3rd till October 14th.

Audiences are also able to see the animated film which premiered for the International Day of Families at Piccadilly Lights, Piccadilly Circus in London.

In this new book, launched in 2021, Julia Peyton-Jones tells the touching story of her life with her three-year-old daughter Pia over the course of a year. Made every evening once her daughter had gone to bed, this beautiful series of drawings comprise a visual diary of their lives in the lead-up to and during the pandemic. The resulting book is both a record of this time and a gift to Pia for her to look back on in the future.

Peyton-Jones is best known for her pioneering work as the director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, where she made an outstanding contribution to international culture that earned her the title of Dame of the British Empire. But at heart, she is and has always been an artist. After twenty-five years at the Serpentine Galleries, she took a courageous change of direction, becoming a mother at the age of sixty-four, starting a new job at Thaddeus Ropac, a commercial gallery of international acclaim, and returning to her roots as an artist. Peyton-Jones saw her drawings as a way of depicting the ebb and flow of family life, recording the eventful and uneventful occurrences over twenty-four hours.