Peter Wilkins, Brief Biography.

Peter Wilkins is currently the inaugural artist-in-residence at Memorial University, Newfoundland, where he is working on a range of group portraits. Wilkins is perhaps best known for his Kinetic Portraits of 12 Canadian Writers, which critically engaged twelve of Canada's notable and most celebrated authors, including Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Yann Martel and Jane Uruqhart. Originally exhibited at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in 2007 the entire suite was purchased by the Portrait Gallery of Canada in 2008. His recent project, Gander International explores the design and aesthetic of late 1950s modernism at Gander Airport and was exhibited at The Rooms in 2008/09.

Portraits of Prominent Newfoundlanders were exhibited at the Confederation Centre for the Arts, Prince Edward Island, over the summer of 2009. His work is held in public and private collections in Canada, UK, US, Germany, France and Greece.