Peter McArdle (born 17 December 1965) is an

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artist, member of the

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Life and career

Peter McArdle was born in

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. He finished St. Aidan's RC School (Ashbrooke, Sunderland) in 1983, at which point he began to get sales for his paintings, which have supported him since. He gained a National Diploma in Art and Design at Newcastle College of Art and Design, 1983–85, then attended the

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, from which he graduated in 1992. From 1992, he showed at Mark Jason Fine Art in

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, London.

In 1989, he was on the shortlist for the

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Young Artist Award. In 1997, during the Year of Visual Art, he was commissioned for work by the Tyne & Wear Development Corporation. He also received commissions from Arts Resource, Sunderland, and the City Council.Buckman, David. ''Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945: Volume 2'', p. 997, Art Dictionaries, Bristol, 2006. From 1990, he participated also in group shows, including the ''Discerning Eye'' show at the

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, London.

In 2003 he founded The

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. He was a featured artist in '' The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' show at the

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for the 2004

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, and was one of the ten "leading Stuckists" in '' Go West'' at

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gallery in 2006. In 2007, he was shown in ''I Won't Have Sex with You as Long as We're Married'' at the

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. In 2007, he became Head of the Foundation course at Northumberland College, and Fine Art lecturer on the BA course there."Biography"
stuckism.com. Retrieved 19 March 2008.

Art

He is a dedicated worker, and has painted seven days a week and starting as early as 4 am"Peter McArdle"
,

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. Retrieved 19 March 2008. He paints in oil with traditional glazing techniques, taking six months or more per painting, sometimes working with a 000 ("cat's whisker") sable brush. A burnt umber underpainting can have up to seventeen layers of glazing. He rejects a third of the finished paintings. Images are mostly one or several figures in an empty room, often seemingly unaware of each other's presence, and given titles that are equally enigmatic. He has said that the images "hover on the frontier between the familiar and the enigmatic, addressing a range of contemporary issues. They are an endless and imperceptible moving to and fro between dream and reality", and also that they draw on his personal experience, as well as art history and

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, acknowledging the difficulty of his work, which requires time and engagement from the viewer. He was reviewed by Paul Clark in the ''

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'' as "a top draughtsman with a funky fluid style" and in ''

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'' as someone who "augurs well for the future of British painting".''

'', 10 January 2001 and ''

'' (undated), cited by

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in "Daubs and Daubers" o
stuckism.com
Retrieved 19 March 2008.

Gallery

Image:Peter McArdle, The Silence Between.jpg, ''Silence Between'' Image:Peter McArdle, His Muse.jpg, ''His Muse''

Notes and references

External links

Peter McArdle's website

The Stuckists Punk Victorian, Walker GalleryStuckismPeter McArdle at A Gallery
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