Mr Peter Chalmers
| Biography | A graduate of Gray's School of Art (2007), Peter Chalmers is a Lecturer and Early Career Researcher. He teaches across the four-year undergraduate BA Hons Painting course and the postgraduate MA course at Gray’s School of Art, as a permanent part-time member of staff. He maintains his own studio practice for the remainder of the week in Glasgow. |
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| Research Interests | Peter Chalmers' is an early career practice-based researcher. His work considers how he can approach making in the face of a threat from meaninglessness. Beyond a question of whether he should be making at all, his work is centred around a question of what and how to make and whether the act of making can in itself create meaning. Recent work has seen image and narrative largely removed in favour of anticipation and waiting, as he strives to make tangible this figurative grey area of meaning. The work seeks to evoke the sense of suspense found in a glimpse over a dividing wall or the action that occurs just off stage. A reality that anticipates the possibility of meaning, but that must find a way of existing without any certainty of it. Since 2021, Peter has collaborated with colleague Lyndsey Gilmour under the title ‘Painted Conversations’. Painted Conversations seeks to test the potential of visual dialogues between practitioners to advance contemporary Painting practice. It focuses on a sharing of knowledge, by inviting practitioners to engage in a visual dialogue. |
| Teaching and Learning | 2016-2022: Module/Subject Coordinator for Stage 1 Painting 2022-2023: Module/Subject Coordinator for Stage 2 Painting 2023-Present: Module/Subject Coordinator for Stage 4 Painting |