1953 Born Pembroke, Wales
1970-72 Banbury School of Art, Oxfordshire
1972-5 DFA Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
1977-8 ATC Institute of Education, University of London
1992-5 MA History of Art (Distinction) Institute of Art, UCE, Birmingham
1996-2002 PhD Slade School of Fine Art, Universtity College, London
School of Art, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
1978-80 Sydenham School, London
1980-86 Bridley Moor High School, Redditch
1986-2003 Lecturer in Fine Art, School of Art, Shrewsbury
1996 Appointed visiting lecturer, University of Wolverhampton
2000 Appointed visiting lecturer, University of Birmingham
1975/9 Amwell Gallery, London
1982 Prescote Gallery, Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1987 Hereford Museum & Art Gallery
1988 The Gateway, Shrewsbury
1991 Kilvert Gallery, Clyro
1993 Snowdonia, The Gateway, Shrewsbury
1998 Cader Idris – Sublime Prospects, Burford House Gallery, Worcestershire
2003 On Cader Idris, Gallery 3, Shrewsbury
2012 Cader Idris, Museum of Modern Art, Wales
1987-2008 Regular mixed exhibitions, Kilvert Gallery, Clyro
1991 International Contemporary Art Fair, London
1991/2 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
1993/5 Welsh Contemporary Art Fair, Cardiff
1994 Laing Landscape Exhibition, Birmingham
1995/8 Eagle Works Studio Gallery, Wolverhampton
1997/8 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2001 Landscape 2000, Burford House Gallery, Worcestershire
2001 Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
2001 Art 4 Amnesty Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery
2002 Cader Idris, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
2004 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2008 Aberystwyth University Centenary Exhibition
2013 Ludlow Open
2013 Hereford Open (prize winner) Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
2014 Hereford Open Studio
2016 The Soul of Wales, MOMA Machynlleth
2016 Curious Travellers: Movement, Landscape, Art, Oriel Sycharth, Glyndwr University.
2016-7 In Snowdonia, Storiel, Bangor, North Wales
2016-7 Impressions of Wales, Oriel Ynys Mon, Anglesey
Rich and Varied Prospects...Thomas Pennant’s ‘A Tour in Wales’ and its Influence. University of Central England in Birmingham 1995
Vision and Revision:Mountain Scenery in Snowdonia 1750–1880. University of Wales, Aberystwyth 2001 Download here
Peter Bishop: Cader Idris. Exhibition catalogue with 33 colour plates, includes essays:
Of Mountains and Memories by Dr. P Davis; Cader Idris – Wilson’s View by Dr. P Bishop,
Peter Bishop, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9571788-0-9
Peter Bishop, The Mountains of Snowdonia in Art: The Visualisation of Mountain Scenery from the mid-Eighteenth Century to the Present Day.
Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84524-227-5
This publication is available in bookshops and outlets throughout Wales and on Amazon.
Julie Lacey, Arts Review, 11 May 1979, p.234
Anthony Vetisse, Arts Review, 4 October 1991, p506, colour plate p.507
Madeleine Marsh (ed) Miller’s Picture Price Guide, 1994, colour plate p.73
Barbara Rae (ed) Royal Academy Illustrated, 1998, colour plate p.50
‘Art for Amnesty’ Living Etc., May 2001, colour plate p.22
Paul Joyner, Cader Idris, Exhibition catalogue, National Library of Wales, 2001, p.3
Peter Bishop was represented by the Kilvert Gallery, Wales from 1987 to 2008.
Work is in public and private collections in the UK and abroad.
Artist: drawings and paintings of mountain landscape, most recently focusing on Snowdonia, North Wales. Subjects include Snowdon and Cader Idris and the surrounding scenery