Peter Cartwright
1939    Born Derby, England
1958    BA Fine Art, Derby College of Art
1961    Royal College of Art

Presently lives and works in Southwell, Notts

Former senior lecturer in fine art at Nottingham Trent and a John Moores exhibitor. Retrospective at Derby City Gallery 2009.

Solo shows with Bend in the River 1998 and 2005. Click here for further information.

’I am concerned with the presence a painting has in its material sense, with its objectness,' says Cartwright. ’I am not concerned with any literal readings of a work ...[rather with] that part which is essentially about "being".'

Sevensluice, 2007, graphite on paper, 80 x 80 cm