Max Petts lives and works in London. They recently graduated from the Goldsmiths MFA and from Chelsea College of Art in 2012. Their practice deals with the complexity of looking and making while seeking to examine their place in the world and the specific set of privileges and penalties they have inherited. Working across disciplines (drawing, painting, writing, finding) they focus on the interplay of images and objects and the relationships that allow meaning to develop. Relationships between bodies and materials, facts and fictions. They consider their practice as an awareness building exercise; a way to posit contradiction.
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Max Petts lives and works in London. They recently graduated from the Goldsmiths MFA and from Chelsea College of Art in 2012. Their practice deals with the complexity of looking and making while seeking to examine their place in the world and the specific set of privileges and penalties they have inherited. Working across disciplines (drawing, painting, writing, finding) they focus on the interplay of images and objects and the relationships that allow meaning to develop. Relationships between bodies and materials, facts and fictions. They consider their practice as an awareness building exercise; a way to posit contradiction.
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Installation View: 'Proscenium‘ at Xxijra Hii (18 April – 17 May 2025). Courtesy of the artist and Xxijra Hii Gallery.
Max Petts, Flowers I-IV (Blue + Red), 2022. Image courtesy of the artist. 
Max Petts, Dead Fool (/ˈeɪ/ to zee - vast barron interior revealed - shrinking shrinking shrinking), 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Xxijra Hii Gallery.
Max Petts, Dead Kitchen (mise-en-scène - Thomas versus John - give me drama, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist and Xxijra Hii Gallery.
Max Petts, Dead Ranks Dead Files (looky looky - signs that sign - you said it’s just scribbles - subject to a little scrutiny and that certainty begins to waiver - 4 - A - sealed), 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Xxijra Hii Gallery.
Max Petts, MAX|LIFE, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.