C.V.

ARTIST & CURATOR

My artwork spans a wide array of mediums – collage, generative art, moving images, digital imaging, photomontage, zine-making, and creative writing.

In addition to my creations, I’ve curated public art projects across the North of England, transforming advertising panels into vibrant showcases of creativity.

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ARTIST & CURATOR

Sunderland University
(September 2006 – June 2007)
PG Dip Film & Television Production

Sunderland University
(September 2003 – June 2004)
MA Fine Art

Sunderland University
(January 1994 – June 1995)
MA Art In Context

Sunderland University
(September 1989 – June 1992)
BA Fine Art

COMMISIONS

2024 Commissioned to produce a freezine for Washington heritage festival, a whimsical take on living in Washington New Town.
2023 Trout Memo Solo Exhibition Art Centre Washington.
2023 AI The Wrong Biennale Priestman Gallery Sunderland University
2020-2023 Art Stops project, curated over 100 Artists work to display on Bus Panels throughout the Durham County area.
2019 Art residency at Great North Children Hospital funded an app development by NE Creative Fuse. Set up doodle stations for children to draw and captured the content for an installation in their MediCinema.
2018 Wabi Sabi Curated an exhibition of 12 Artists @ TESTT Space Durham, exploring the imperfections in Artist’s works.
2016 VJ Performance @ 74 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London.
2011 Researcher for Darker Than Night Film Noir Exhibition Derby Quad
2010 Derby Gallery and Museum, Gleam Festival 2010. Outside projection including images from the Museum Collection using iCoda.
2013 Apples & Snakes Basic FM. Radio commission exploring the idea of dipping into spoken word programmes. An hour of poetry, sound and field recordings.
2010 Derby Gallery and Museum, Gleam Festival. Outside projection including images from the Museum Collection using iCoda.
2009 Researcher for Darker Than Night Film Noir Exhibition Derby Quad
2009 Produced and edited three short films for Red Nile Factory Night, Berwick/Sunderland/Saltburn. A site specific project responding to buildings and spaces. Three commissions including a short film on Saltburn, Joplins in Sunderland and using iCoda responding to Berwick Town Hall.
2009 Threshold Studios Critical Mass. Wrote and produced Helter Skelter responding to the theme of Dreams and Nightmares.
2008 Digital City Fellowship Teesside University developed iCoda Software
2007 Inspire Wansbeck Council. Made a short film inspired by flood damaged photos. The theme was ‘Lounge art’ ambient background films for their information centres.
2007 Piggyback Arts, Peephole Cinema Waygood Gallery. The theme was ‘peep show’ which was a shop window in the city centre with peep holes to view the films. I wrote and produced Hole a film exploring my hallucinary experiences suffering from asthma as a child.
2008 Digital City Fellowship Teesside University developed iCoda Software
2006, The Forge, Beamish Museum/Tanfield School. Assistant Media artist in a 3 month residency in Tanfield, Durham.
We produced a film and performance on the theme of personal archives.
2005, Illuminate Festival, Bradford Council. Wrote and Produced an experimental travelogue on the five cities of Yorkshire.
Interviewing Artists, Sound Artists, Performers and sculptors. The film was called MEME and I used the concept of swapping ideas and skills, myself being the catalyst for new work.
2004 Platform 000004, Waygood Gallery. Performance and Video Installation. I hired five actors to become a disruptive family causing havoc around the City Centre, using a hidden camera, I replayed the footage in a living room installation I built in the Gallery.

FILMOGRAPHY

PUBLICATIONS

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“Pete is a creative genius, always
developing inspirational new ideas. Pete is brilliant at linking ideas, art, and technology to create amazing new synergies.”

^{Keith Jeffrey}
^{Breakthrough Coaching.}

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I regularly run live music events and wanted something special to create a real talking point. We used iCoda at a gig at Northern Stage, with the musicians working alongside Peter to create unique visuals that provided a real focal point of the event.

^{Claire Dupree}
^{NARC. Magazine}

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“When our artist, Rick Shaffer, wanted a fast come-at-you video he immediately requested the expertise of Peter McAdam, he created a rapid atmospheric tapestry of images, in a commercial subliminal storytelling format.”

_{Theresa Marchione}
_{Tarock Music}

COMPANIES I HAVE WORKED WITH:

“Peter McAdam came to our attention as an Artist with a dark and comic imagination through his application to our Critical Mass Moving Image Commissioning programme.

We found Peter to be a versatile thinker with energy and technical abilities that enabled him to explore his ideas through a range of technologies and crafts.

He motivates his team and collaborators to achieve great things and this network of support includes artists of many disciplines which enables him to realise most if not all of his imaginative ideas.

He is dedicated and ferocious in his pursuit of the right image, the right cut and his work with us through Critical Mass demonstrates a forceful, complex and multi-layered imagination.
We look forward to working with him again at some future date.”

Barry Hale Co Director of Threshold Studios, Northampton.