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About the Artist
Peter Davis is a prizewinning figurative painter who creates urban realist landscapes and contemporary portraits. In 2018, he had a solo show at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery and, in 2020, he was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize, the equivalent of receiving an Oscar nomination in the art world.
Peter’s realistic paintings always include someone absorbed in their personal technology. His compositions move from busy streets to quiet alleyways, each vignette a fascinating narrative of the life of today’s Mancunians. They are all stories of our time, of people going about their everyday lives, technology in hand.
Peter is an elected member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA), the Contemporary British Portrait Painters (CBPP) and Castlefield Gallery Associates.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Zeitgeist - Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
2017 Contemporary Portraiture - The Space at Cass Art, Manchester
Recent Group Exhibitions
2021 John Moores Painting Prize - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2021 Art of the Everyday (MAFA) - Gallery Oldham
2021 New Light Prize (touring UK galleries)
2020 The Castlegate Prize - Castlegate House Gallery, Cumbria
2020 Virtually Real - Norman Rea Gallery, York
2019 Warrington Contemporary - Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
2019 MAFA Autumn Exhibition - Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery
2019 RBSA Portrait Prize - RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
2019 Spotlight - Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
2019 PS Mirabel Painting Prize - PS Mirabel gallery, Manchester
2019 GM Arts Prize - Bolton Museum & Art Gallery
2019 RBSA Prize Exhibition - RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
2019 A&I Magazine 'Artists of the Year' - Mall Galleries, London
2018 ING Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries, London
2018 Being allowed to look - Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
2018 Aesthetica Art Prize - York Art Gallery
2018 GM Arts Prize - Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery
2018 RBSA Prize Exhibition - RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
Recent Awards
2021 John Moores Painting Prize – Finalist
2020 The Castlegate Prize - Finalist
2020 Three Counties Open - Burslem Prize
2019 SAG 99th Annual Exhibition - First Prize 2019 A&I Magazine 'Artists of the Year' - Finalist 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize - Shortlisted
2018 GM Arts Prize - Runner Up Prize
2018 RBSA Prize Exhibition - Third Prize
