Peter Kennard was born on 17 February 1949 and is a London-born and based photomontage artist and Professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art.
11 Facts About Peter Kennard
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Peter Kennard has work in the public collections of several major London museums and the Arts Council of England.
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Peter Kennard has his work displayed as part of Tate Britain's permanent collection and is on public view as part of 2013's rehang A Walk Through British Art.
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Peter Kennard originally trained as a painter at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and later at the Royal College of Art, where he is Professor of Political Art.
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Peter Kennard has previously been Senior Tutor in the Department of Photography and later Professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art.
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Peter Kennard abandoned painting in the 1970s in search of new forms of expression that could bring art and politics together for a wider audience.
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Peter Kennard has often worked in collaboration with writers, photographers, filmmakers and artists such as Peter Reading, John Pilger and Jenny Matthews.
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Peter Kennard produced a body of work addressing the second Iraq War in 2002.
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Peter Kennard says he was trying to change the world and "portray Iraq as it happened and not wait until afterwards and make a history painting".
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The first major retrospective of Peter Kennard's work was held at the Imperial War Museum for a year from May 2015.
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In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Peter Kennard signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.