Lives and works in London, UK

“It was the great English poet William Blake who declared that ‘Without Contraries there is no progression’; and it is hard to imagine a better account of the painting of Peter Griffin. This is a painter whose canvases are often divided; a determinedly contemporary artist intrigued by the past whose recent works are stamped by the tension between inside and outside an artist preoccupied by revelation and concealment… Their meaning is to be read from a complex and unending dialogue between the elements that has no closure. The present cannot unwrap the past but nor can it stop trying to do so… Without contraries there is no progression, as Blake so rightly said”

Philip Dodd

Education

Studied at The Royal Collage of Art 1974 – 77

Awards

1992 The Wingate Fellowship for Humanities in the Arts

1979 The Rome Scholarship in Painting

1977 Anstruther Purchase Award

 

Solo Exhibitions

2015

“I Am Only The Head Of Those That Go Before Me”, Maddox Arts, London, UK

2014

I Am Only The Head (a twenty year restrospective) The Mark Rothko Foundation Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

Seizing the Moment, Galleri Gl Lejre, Denmark

2013

Sealed With Fire (The Neruda Prints), The Mark Rothko Foundation Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2012

Traces and Fragments, Past into Present, Galleri Gl Lejre, Denmark

2011

Paintings from the Interlude, Maddox Arts, London, UK

Peter Griffin ‘The Prints’, Centro de Bicenterini Salta, Argentina

 

Group Exhibitions

2017

Winter Show, Maddox Arts, London, UK

Spring Show, Maddox Arts, London, UK

2015

Small is Beautiful, Flowers West, New York

Art Herning International Art Fair, Herning, Denmark

2014

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

2012

Secrets Exhibition RCA, London, UK

Art 2012, London, UK

2010

I See Alone Sometimes, Maddox Arts, London, UK

 

Press