page_title: Peter McArdle
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Peter McArdle / Life and career
context_page_description: Peter McArdle is an English artist, member of the Stuckists art group and gallery owner.
context_section_description: Peter McArdle was born in Tynemouth. He finished St. Aidan's RC School (Ashbrooke, Sunderland) in 1983, at which point he began to get sales for his paintings, which have supported him since. He gained a National Diploma in Art and Design at Newcastle College of Art and Design, 1983–85, then attended the University of Sunderland, from which he graduated in 1992. From 1992, he showed at Mark Jason Fine Art in Bond Street, London.
  In 1989, he was on the shortlist for the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award. In 1997, during the Year of Visual Art, he was commissioned for work by the Tyne & Wear Development Corporation. He also received commissions from Arts Resource, Sunderland, and the City Council. From 1990, he participated also in group shows, including the Discerning Eye show at the Mall Galleries, London.
  In 2003 he founded The Gateshead Stuckists group  and was exhibited at the Stuckism International Gallery.  He was a featured artist in The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery for the 2004 Liverpool Biennial, and was one of the ten "leading Stuckists" in Go West at Spectrum London gallery in 2006. In 2007, he was shown in I Won't Have Sex with You as Long as We're Married at the A Gallery.
  In 2007, he became Head of the Foundation course at Northumberland College, and  Fine Art lecturer on the BA course there.
caption: Peter McArdle's work (centre painting) in the A Gallery window, July 2007.
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