Peter has 22 years’ experience as a professional curator, producer, project manager and senior leader. Since January 2025 he has been Executive Director at disabled-led visual arts organisation DASH. Peter was diagnosed with autism in 2021 and has a specific interest in exploring opportunities to support Disabled, Neurodivergent, and Deaf creatives.

Peter was Director of FORMAT International Photography Festival & Arts Programme Manager at QUAD, Derby,from 2022 — 2025. For 10 years prior to that he was Senior Curator at QUAD. From 2004 – 2011 he was Curator at ArtSway, and co-curated the New Forest Pavilion at the 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 Venice Biennales, plus ‘Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf’ at the Biennale in 2015. Across his career he has curated/produced close to 200 exhibitions, including managing numerous commissions, and producing many related publications, talks and events.

He trained as an artist, gaining a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Liverpool John Moores University (1995), and an MFA in Art at the University of Arkansas in the United States, majoring in painting with a minor in photography(2002). He then studied for an MA(RCA) in Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art (2004). From the mid-1990s to the early 2000s Peter was a visual artist/art tutor exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the US. Since early 2025 he has rekindled his practice, focusing on photography; this work although deeply personal seeks to offer an observational understanding of the autistic condition.