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My artwork spans a wide array of mediums \u2013 collage, generative art, moving images, digital imaging, photomontage, zine-making, and creative writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to my creations, I\u2019ve curated public art projects across the North of England, transforming advertising panels into vibrant showcases of creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunderland University<\/strong>
(September 2006 \u2013 June 2007)<\/em>
PG Dip Film & Television Production<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunderland University<\/strong>
(September 2003 \u2013 June 2004)<\/em>
MA Fine Art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunderland University<\/strong>
(January 1994 \u2013 June 1995)<\/em>
MA Art In Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunderland University<\/strong>
(September 1989 \u2013 June 1992)<\/em>
BA Fine Art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u2019s 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\u00a0Apples & Snakes\u00a0Basic FM.\u00a0Radio commission exploring the idea of dipping into spoken word\u00a0programmes.\u00a0An hour of poetry, sound and field recordings.
2010 Derby Gallery and\u00a0Museum,\u00a0Gleam Festival. Outside projection including images from the Museum Collection using\u00a0iCoda.
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 \u2018Lounge art\u2019 ambient background films for their information centres.
2007 Piggyback Arts, Peephole Cinema Waygood Gallery. The theme was \u2018peep show\u2019 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\u00a0Digital City Fellowship Teesside University developed\u00a0iCoda\u00a0Software\u00a0
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.
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HELTER SKELTER 2009 Mini DV, Super 8.<\/strong>
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Technophobia Film Festival San Francisco, Washington DC 2013
Star and Shadow 2012
Quad Cinema Derby 2011
Studio Q Sunderland 2011
Harkers\u00a0Warehouse Halloween 2009
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Archetime\u00a0Film\u00a0Festival \u00a0New\u00a0York 2010
Various Information Centres Northumberland 2007-08

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Bradford Millennium Square Big Screen, Illuminate Festival 2006
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HOME COOKING: EARTIQUE. BASIC FM<\/strong>
Eartique\u00a0experimental spoken word for Basic FM\/ Nov 2013
The Nine\u00a0Henrys \u00a0book\u00a0of cartoons 2012 Gonzo Multi Media
iCoda\u00a0Palimpsest\u00a0app published on the App Store\u00a0iOS\u00a02011
Live.Stock\u00a0Sharkfishing\u00a0In Blyth 2002

MEME<\/strong>
Bradford Millennium Square Big Screen, Illuminate Festival 2006

iCoda IOS Curated Four International Artists to release an iCoda Preload iTunes Store 2015
Home Cooking:<\/strong>
Eartique experimental spoken word for Basic FM\/ Nov 2013
The Nine Henrys book of cartoons 2012 Gonzo Multi Media
iCoda Palimpsest app published on the App Store iOS 2011
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2024: Washington,<\/strong> My Bizarre Hometown: a freezine for a festival giveaway.
2023: Trout Memo 2, Trout Memo, The Dream Diaries<\/strong>: A compilation of Collage work inspired by Dream Diaries. KDP Amazon.
2020: Trout Memo, The Dream Diaries:<\/strong> A compilation of Collage work inspired by Dream Diaries. KDP Amazon.
2019: The Accidental Moustache and Other Drawings,<\/strong> Black Scat Books, USA
2017: The 9 Henry Zone:<\/strong> A book on cartoons exploring the absurdity of everyday life. KDP.
2016: The Big Kink:<\/strong> A collection of short neo-noir stories.

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\u201cPete is a creative genius, always
developing inspirational new ideas. Pete is brilliant at linking ideas, art, and technology to create amazing new synergies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Dupree<\/sup><\/strong>
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\u201cWhen 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tarock Music<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n


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\u201cPeter 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0disciplines which\u00a0enables him to realise most if not all of his imaginative ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.\u00a0
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