Peter Harrap

Peter Harrap studied at Camberwell College of Art, Winchester School of Art and Prince of Wales Drawing Studio. In 2004 he was elected a Royal Academy Schools graduate for his role as director of Young RA. He has exhibited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leighton House and The Arts House as well as receiving prizes for his work.

"Peter Harrap works from a solid base of drawing and then makes paintings from these drawings. The object of the exercise is not to produce pictorial verisimilitude but rather through the subjects he chooses to paint to create a visual poetry of memory. In the British School he belongs to that line of twentieth century artists which includes Spencer, Freud and Lessore."

His work is in the private collections of Michel Roux and the CEO's of HSBC and Laurent-Perrier. He has been called a "great British hope" by John Russell Taylor in the Times.

Exhibitions

2007
24 London, Hayward Gallery, London & tour
Broadway Gallery, New York
NY Arts Gallery, Beijing
Color Elefante Galeria, Valencia
2006
Chambers Gallery, London
On Freud's Easel, The Rowley Gallery, London
Kew Gardens, London
Another Product, Corner House, Manchester
2005
RAdical Art, Jerwood Space, London
2002
Carlyle Gallery, London
Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke
Arts House, London
2000
Arts House, London
1999
Agnus Dei, Leighton House, London
1995
Bournemouth International Arts Festival
The Figure Reinterpreted, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London