Peter Richards is a Welsh-born Irish artist and curator. Early in his career he worked primarily on video art and installations, later also working in performance art. Richards is living and working in Belfast, Northern Ireland, since 1994.
Early in his career Richards was producing predominantly video art works. These works generally took the form of single-channel installations, featuring the artist perform to camera, such as his "Untitled: table & chair".Art Action 1958–1998, editions Intervention, p424-426. . In the mid-1990s he began creating performance art works and photographic documentation of the performance art as a single entity.Sofaer, Joshua, Conflict of Interest: Performance as a Spectator, Performance Research Journal, Volume 5.1, Spring , Routledge – 2000 He also created a series of "collective histories" of performance art works.Hanrahan, Suin, "Peter Richards: Photographing Performance", Source, No.20, pp. 30–31, Autumn. Richards has worked on the subject of 'memorials' in Northern Ireland.Grigg, Jennifer.L., "On The Walls in Belfast", Afterimage, Vol. 26, No. 5, March/April.Portraits from a 50's Archive, Belfast Exposed, catalogue. . He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally most notably participating in first presentation at the Venice Biennale in 2005.Hugh Mulholland, Suzanna Chan, Michele Robecchi, The Nature of Things, British Council & Arts Council of Northern Ireland, catalogue.
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External links His website