Peter Day

Biography

Peter's artwork analyses the familiar, banal and anonymity in the everyday environment, through walking and serial revisiting. Each impulsive recording is a reflective examination of the ‘knowing’ of a present experience set against its later remembering, and memory (personal, fantastical, misremembered, nostalgia) that defines the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker. Recent publications include: Pictures of My Father, Arts Council Funded (Surface Gallery, Nottingham March 2015, Lighthouse Gallery, Wolverhampton July 2015); Perambulist Somnambulist – (Lighthouse Gallery, Wolverhampton 2013); Featured Poet, Blank Media Collective issue 39 Oct 2011; BBC Radio Shropshire Poetry Reading Oct 31 2011); Garden Manifesto: (Featured Artist, Blank Media Collective issue 21 April 2010); In Momentum-Walk to Work: (Galleri Paradis, Bornholm, Denmark; July-August 2005 Bank St Gallery, Kirrimuir, Scotland) and Invisible Boundaries: (May-June 2005 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton. Devon May-June 2002 the Michael Tippet Centre, Bath Spa University).

Research Interest

My research interests are thematic and include art and pedagogy, art and community and art and health the use of the image as a transformative interrogation of the personal environment and space. My paper How to Make a Firing Squad Less Scary (2013) the emotional impacts of the Art Crit is available at the Journal of Learning Development (www.aldinhe.ac.uk) and I presented my Arts and Health work at CRASSH Cambridge University 17 May 2013. This arts and health research with Wolverhampton Primary Healthcare Trust reviews the use of imagery and memories in patients with degenerative illness.