Peter Baldwin

Born Aldeburgh, Suffolk , 1941

Studied Norwich School of Art, 1958 – 62

Taught and practised in Canada , 1963 – 5

Taught Norwich School of Art, 1965 –72 and at various Adult Education Centres, 1972 –91

Elected to Norfolk County Council 1991 – 2001 (Chairman 1995-6) and began lecturing in Art History for the UEA Extramural Board and the WEA

EXHIBITIONS have included:

Group shows in London , Rouen & Eastern Open, King's Lynn .

Exhibited with Norwich Twenty Group throughout East Anglia since 1962, venues including Aldeburgh Festival, Norwich Castle Museum , University of East Anglia , Oxford and Ipswich & Rouen.

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS have included:

Eastern Open, King's Lynn , 2002, 03, 04, 05

The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park , 2000

Doric Arts, King's Lynn , 2001, 2002

Salthouse 02, ‘On the Edge', North Norfolk Exhibition Project, 2002

King's Lynn Maritime Festival, October 2002

Sheringham Little Theatre, 2000, 2004

‘The Lay of the Land', Salthouse Church , 2004

‘The Human Clay', (life drawings), The Warehouse, Lowestoft , 2004

Celebration of Norwich Market, The Forum, Norwich , 2005

Norwich Castle Open, 2005, 2008

NOVA, Hobart Gallery, Blickling Hall, 2005

‘Beachcombing', Church St.Gallery, Cromer, 2006

‘An Eclectic View', Core One, Chelsea, London , 2006

Royal Academy Summer Show 2007, 2008

North Norfolk Exhibition Project - Salthouse 2002,2007, 2008

Norfolk Contemporary Art, The Forum, Norwich, 2008

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS have included:

Sheringham Little Theatre, 2001

North Norfolk District Council Offices, September 2002

Grapevine Gallery, Norwich , 2006

Peter Baldwin A Retrospective. Art18/21 Norwich 2009

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Norwich Castle Museum

Norfolk County Council

North Norfolk District Council

Sainsbury Centre Loan Collection

PUBLICATIONS

‘Resurgence' magazine, May 1999: an article entitled ‘A Visual Language' by poet and academic Peter Abbs, University of Sussex .

‘Wide Skies – A Century of Painting & Painters in Norfolk ', Halsgrove, 2003

‘ Norwich 20 Group – Sixty years of Art', Curran Publishing, 2005

‘Oil paintings in Public Ownership in Norfolk ', The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2006

AWARDS

Guella Trust Purchase Award, Eastern Open, Kings Lynn , 2004

TELEVISION

‘Arty Facts', Image Productions for Anglia TV, 2003

QUOTES

"to understand the art of Peter Baldwin, we need to go beyond words and engage the active eye"

PETER ABBS: 'A VISUAL LANGUAGE' , RESURGENCE, MAY 1999

"good artists are those who have the power to generate a compelling personal idiom within a collective language"

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