Peter Harrap

I'm delighted that Peter Harrap will be staying at Pasture for a week from 4 - 11 July 2024. During his residency he  will be looking at ideas of wanderlust and painting in the landscape around East Bergholt and exploring John Constable's connections with this area and the walks he took to make his paintings. 

Peter is a British Romanian Artist and Curator based in Brighton. He is co-curator of Constable 250 that will celebrate the 250th anniversary of John Constable and will be deeply connected with this area over the next 2 years leading up to this . In 2010 He investigated the site of his own studio with Shan Lancaster and found it to have been John Constable’s Brighton Lodgings and Studio 1824-1828. Peter then proposed an exhibition ‘ Constable and Brighton, Something out of Nothing’ held at Brighton Museum for which he was the Curator. Simultaneously he proposed an overlap between Constable and Grigorescu a Romanian artist with similar working methods. A V&A exhibition called ‘ John Constable : Seeking Truth ‘ travelled to Bucharest from September -December 2022 and a Grigorescu exhibition occurred at the National Gallery România ( MNAR) the following year. This was a first for bilateral swaps with major museums to Bucharest. 

As an artist Peter has exhibited widely including at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Brighton Museum and Iasi Palace of Culture România. His work is in the collection of Knoxville Museum of Modern Art, America.