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A series of Reviews and Essays by critics giving critical acclaim to Peter Wilson’s Work These Reviews and Essays provide a backdrop to the polemic of Peter Wislon’s Work
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Essay James Hamilton 1982
The smell of wet paint should be the most natural thing for a visitor to expect in a gallery, and that it comes as a shock is perhaps a symptom of the…
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Glasgow boy on the beach
Peter Wilson’s latest paintings announce a surprising stylistic and thematic departure. After the graphic, stream of consciousness works we are used to his work has become descriptive and knowingly mannered. One picture…
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Nothing Natural: The Art of Peter Wilson
Don’t be misled by the unashamed directness of the title to this exhibition, ‘Instincts: Lost and Found’. There is nothing direct and certainly nothing natural in these teasingly artful paintings, which are…
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No Hard Feelings
As Bill drove the hired Lancia insecurely through the crowded streets … he was stunned by the variety of human personality. All were constructed of molecules, genetically encoded … A street of…
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Time Out Review 2002
Peter Wilson The Market South: London Peter Wilson’s paintings of urban America seem familiar. Sun-soaked and devoid of people, they are a far cry from the manic south-east London streets the other…
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Nature Lessons Video
This video was made for the exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery 1987 by AVA- Nottingham video productions . The idea was to try and convey how the paintings were…
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Immersed in Film Sight and Sound Jan 93
Artist Peter Wilson peers into the depths of his past, catching glimpses of the Toledo cinema in Glasgow, strange creatures from the deep – and the films of etymologist Luis Buñuel “Don’t…
