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EARTH. “It has been said that artists remind us of what we have lost, and this is certainly true of Peter Ward. He connects us to the very beginning: to the beginning of the earth, to the beginning of art and to the beginning of life.”. Sandy Brown, Resurgence magazine.
Peter Ward (1932-2003) - Oil painting - "Sloop", board 11.75ins x 20.5ins, with artist's name and dated 1996 to back, in white painted frame Provenance : Studio 4, Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall Canterbury Auction Galleries
A 4th body of work inspired and created using pigments gathered and processed from remnants of Cornwall’s historic mining industries. These paintings were made during a 6-week tenancy of the prestigious Studio 5 at Porthmeor Studio in St Ives. kescows an bys (the earth talks) 3: Boscaswell 2019. “I find sadness and loss hanging from the ...
3,252 Followers, 2,198 Following, 3,643 Posts - Peter Ward (@peteward.artist) on Instagram: "interdisciplinary artist based in Southwest England earth pigment specialist #paintingwithearth, #bidefordblack @peteward_underscored"
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My practice as an artist is rooted in a sense of our evolving relationships within the animate earth. Art, as a reflective interdisciplinary process, is the means through which I investigate and share these relationships. It is one means through which we may enrich our life experience. It is an intimate response to the social and ecological conditi...
2010 – 2012 MA Art & Environment, University College Falmouth (SANDRA BLOW AWARD for outstanding achievement) 1986 – 1989 BA (HONS) Graphic Design & Illustration, Bristol Polytechnic 1985 – 1986 Foundation Course, Portsmouth CADFE
painting a parish future, ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, Exeter University, UK 2018-19 Lead Artist, Newport Community School Arts Week, Barnstaple, Devon, 2015 Project Development, SOIL CULTURE 2013-16, CCANW and RANE, South West England, 2011-16 Lead Researcher, The Story of Bideford Black – The Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, North Devo...
CREATIVE EXCHANGE (painting a parish future), Environmental Sustainability Institute, Exeter University, collaboration with Senior Politics Lecturer Dr Joanie Willett, 2019-20 kescows an bys / the earth talks, Porthmeor Studio 5, St Ives, Cornwall, UK 2019 GNAP France (Global Nomadic Art Project), Art Underground, YATOO International, Saumur, Loire...
Last Chance to Paint, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK 2019 Playing with Dirt, Sandy Brown Museum, Appledore, North Devon, UK 2019 Hand to Earth, Schumacher College, Dartington Hall, South Devon, UK 2019 painting a parish future, ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, Exeter University, UK 2018-19 Whitegold Festival, St Austell, Cornwall, UK 2018 GNAP UK, Dar...
Environments (group show), Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK 2019 The Garden Room Gallery, Dartington Hall, South Devon with Jenny Mellings and Emma Hambly, 2018 Royal West Academy Annual Open, RWA Bristol, 2017 Greenhill Arts Open, Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor 2017 Deep Roots, Soil Culture, Falmouth Art Gallery and Penninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth 2015-16...
GNAP UK, Dartington Hall, South Devon, UK 2018 Escape to the Country, (5 minute TV article about Bideford Black), BBC 2015 The Home & The World Symposium, Dartington Hall 2012 The Devonshire Association, Exeter 2013 Falmouth University, MA lectures 2012-13 Ussher Society (Geoscience Southwest) AGM, Bideford 2011 Various talks and presentations to l...
Field to Palette, Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene, edited by Toland – Noller – Wessolek, CRC Press 2019 Saunton – A Coastal Curation, Brend Hotels, 2018 Soil Culture – Bringing the Arts Down to Earth, CCANW, 2016 BBC Radio Devon interviews about Soil Culture and Painting with Earth 2008 & 2016 The Home & the World – A BUNDLE OF STICKS...
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Peter Ward describes himself as an artist/illustrator. His special focus of interest is on the 'use, formation, history and ecological implications of gathered materials, in particular earth pigments from Devon and Cornwall'. His work is shared through painting, workshops, installations and presentations. After completing a Foundation Course in ...
Contact Details. pete-ward@live.co.uk. Statement. My practice as an artist is rooted in a sense of our evolving relationships within the animate earth. Art, as a reflective interdisciplinary process, is the means through which I investigate and share these relationships. It is one means through which we may enrich our life experience.
