Peter Blake《Peter Blake》

Peter Blake

Born in Dartford Kent in 1932. From 1946 to 1951 he studied at Gravesend Technical College and School of Art and from 1950 to 1956 at the Royal College of Art London. From 1951 to 1953 he served in the Royal Air Force. He studied folk art in various European countries with a research award. From 1959 he did collages with pin-up photos star images posters LP covers and trivial images. Between 1960 and 1962 he taught at St. Martin's School of Art London and from 1962 to 1964 at the Walthamstow School of Art. In 1961 he obtained First Prize in the John Moore Exhibition Liverpool for Self-Portrait with Badges. In 1963 he married Jann Haworth and travelled to Los Angeles to do drawings for the "Sunday Times". From 1974 to 1976 he taught at the Royal College of Art London. In 1969 he was given his first retrospective by the City Art Gallery in Bristol. He moved to Wellow Avon and continued to live there until 1974. In 1973 and 1974 he had retrospectives in Amsterdam Hamburg Brussels and Arnheim. He was made A.R.A. in 1974 and R.A. in 1981. In 1975 he and his wife Jann were founder members of the Brotherhood of Ruralists who had their first exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1976. He became separated from Jann in 1981 and returned to London. In 1983 he was given a large retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery and at the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover.