Who's who
Peter Webster
Senior Lecturer
Peter trained at Cardiff College of Art and Reading University. He lived and worked in London from 1976 – 86 and was one of the founder members of Chisenhale Studios in East London.
He began teaching in Falmouth in 1986 on the Foundation course and became a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in 1995, he has also taught on the MA Contemporary Visual Arts and Integrated Masters Programmes.
He has exhibited widely regionally and nationally and has work in private collections in the UK, Europe and USA.
Since 1990 he has been a regular exhibitor with the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Solo exhibitions include:
1981 New Gallery, Hornsey, London
1983 Crescent Art Gallery, Scarborough
1983 Hull University
Group Exhibitions Include:
1974 John Moores 9, Liverpool
1984 Whitechapel Open, London
1994 The Bloodshot Eye, The Gallery in Cork Street, London; MAC Birmingham; Plymouth Arts Centre; Hotbath Gallery ,Bath
1995 Contemporary Art Market, Royal Festival Hall, London
2001 Brilliant Corners, Newlyn Art Gallery
2002 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
2005 Open Painting, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2007 ‘Lineage’ Newlyn Art Gallery & Penlee House Museum
In his notebook Peter has written
" I developed these Paintings from physical, 3D and conceptual models. These are similar to how a sculptor makes a maquette, or how a scientist might make a molecular model, in order to anticipate or replicate reality.
These models enable me to generate a set of elements in the Paintings (forms, shapes, edges, spaces, colours, lines, surfaces etc) referring both to real things in the world and the ways in which they can be represented within the formality of Painting.
The dialogues between these different conventions become the language of the work.
In this way I can evoke real things within the condition of Abstract Painting."
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