PETER LORD

Peter Lord is an art historian, who specialises in the study of the visual culture of Wales. He has particular interests in the artisan painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the imaging of industrial Wales in the first half of the twentieth century, and in the theoretical questions which arise from the study of visual culture in a nation regarded as marginal to the mainstream of western art history.
He is an acknowledged authority who writes and broadcasts on the visual culture of Wales in both English and Welsh. Between 1996 and 2003, he led a project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, which resulted in the 3-volume history ‘The Visual Culture of Wales’. His most recent publications include ‘The Meaning of Pictures’ (2009) and a highly readable autobiography ‘Relationships with Pictures’ (2013)

Peter Lord gained a degree in Fine Art from the University of Reading in 1970 before being accepted as visiting fellow at the Yale Centre of British Art in 1994. He is currently research fellow at the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales at Swansea University.
He has published and broadcast widely on Welsh visual culture and has curated major exhibitions for national institutions. He has a particular interest in the work of the Welsh artisan painters during the first half of the nineteenth century, and in the art of the Great Depression, between both world wars.

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High Street Social

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Thursday 28th June
​Dydd Iau 28ain O Fehefin

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6pm Start
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