Peter Blake’s studio brought to life at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
13 April 2026 • Mark Westall
Peter Blake’s studio will be brought to life inside Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery this winter
Tag: Peter Blake
Peter Blake (b. 1932, Dartford, UK) is a British pop artist widely regarded as a central figure in the development of Pop Art in Britain. Peter Blake is best known for collage-based works that incorporate imagery from popular culture, advertising, music and everyday life. His work helped establish a visual language that connected fine art with mass media and consumer culture.
Blake gained international recognition in the 1960s, notably for designing the album cover for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). His artworks often combine found images, typography and hand-painted elements, creating compositions that celebrate and critique celebrity, nostalgia and visual culture. Peter Blake’s practice spans painting, collage, printmaking and public commissions.
Peter Blake has exhibited widely in major museums and galleries and remains an influential figure in contemporary art. His work continues to shape discussions around Pop Art, popular imagery and the relationship between art and everyday culture.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London in July
3 July 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see in July in London. Each one comes with a concise review to help you… Read More
The Top 6 West End gallery exhibitions to see in London this summer
18 July 2021 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his top exhibitions to see right now. Each one comes with a concise review to help you… Read More
30 contemporary British artists including Damien Hirst, Lubaina Himid, Gillian Wearing, Rachel Whiteread create miniature art works for model art gallery.
30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists
NEW WORK: Peter Blake
26 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Waddington Custot is pleased to present NEW WORK: Peter Blake, the fourth iteration of the gallery’s digital exhibition series.
b+w is a group show exploring the use of black and white in art
13 August 2019 • Mark Westall
b+w is a group show at Paul Stolper Gallery, London that brings together artworks by Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake, Jimmy Cauty, Keith Coventry, Kevin Cummins, Jeremy Deller, Brian Eno, Susie Hamilton, Damien Hirst and Reece Jones.
100 white helium-filled balloons will mark the opening of Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band
4 January 2019 • Mark Westall
The release of 100 white helium-filled balloons will mark the opening of Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band as a tribute to the anniversary of the You Are Here opening
Pallant House Gallery acquires artworks by “Young” British Artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin
28 August 2018 • Mark Westall
Artworks by major contemporary British artists including Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread and Tracey Emin have been given a permanent home at Pallant House Gallery. The six works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Peter Blake, Rachel Whiteread, Gavin Turk and Michael Craig Martin are a gift to the Gallery from Frank and Lorna Dunphy under the Cultural Gifts Scheme.
7 artists produce 7 limited edition prints celebrating 70 years of the NHS
2 July 2018 • Mark Westall
To celebrate the 70th anniversary one of the nation’s most loved institutions, the NHS, on 5 July 2018, seven leading international artists have produced limited-edition prints to raise funds to support some of London’s busiest hospitals.
25 art films released to launch new free global digital platform
25 April 2018 • Mark Westall
HENI Talks is a new website that brings fresh thinking on visual culture to a brand new global audience, goes live today.
Leading International artists use materials recovered from The Glasgow School of Art fire to create new works for auction.
30 January 2017 • Mark Westall
25 leading international artists, including Simon Starling, Sir Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Saville, David Shrigley and Douglas Gordon have used materials retrieved from The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh library after the fire to create original works of art to help raise money for restoration of the Mackintosh Building.
Don’t Miss: Art On a Postcard’s secret auction.
14 October 2016 • Mark Westall
International household names including Grayson Perry, Maggie Hambling, Oliver Jeffers, Peter Blake, Harland Miller, Gilbert & George and a host of Royal Academicians such as Ken Howard RA, Mick Rooney RA, John Wragg RA, Rebecca Salter RA, Paul Huxley RA and Steven Farthing RA, as well as emerging talent are within the 400 plus postcard sized artworks up for auction.
Art On A Postcard returns for a second year with Julian Opie, David Shrigley & Sir Peter Blake
28 October 2015 • Mark Westall
This year the artworks will be available to view online from 15th October, at The Auction Room, an online auction site specialising in collectible works of art.
GO SEE: A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense A Portrait of Robert Fraser, Curated by Brian Clarke
7 February 2015 • Staff
There is a great eclectic exhibition at Pace London titled ‘A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense’that takes as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser, curated by Brian Clarke.
Here Today… an art exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
13 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Here Today is an art exhibition, curated by Artwise, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
PREVIEW: ‘Side-Show’ by Peter Blake @PaulStolper
21 November 2014 • Mark Westall
27 November 2014 – 10 January 2015 Paul Stolper Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Side-Show’, an in-depth exploration of one of… Read More
PREVIEW: What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me @FASLondon
25 September 2014 • Mark Westall
The Fine Art Society is to present a major contemporary group exhibition marking the centenary of Duchamp’s readymade – a concept that challenged the very notion of art itself.
ART OPENING: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Birth of British Pop-Art @A&D Gallery Tuesday 18th February 2014
18 February 2014 • Mark Westall
In Britain, Pop-Art had a unique impact on publishing, fashion, music, TV, and cinema. Perhaps it was the dispersal over the various media that lessened the effect that Pop Art had on Fine Art. But we did do it first, and we did some of it very well indeed. So celebrate it and as they said without irony in the 60’s: Buy British
WIN: Freedom not Genius – Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection we have TEN copies for you to WIN.
30 November 2012 • Mark Westall
WIN: About Freedom Not Genius a book about Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection.
Tim Head Answers FADs Questions
30 July 2012 • Mark Westall
I have art A.D.D so I don’t study or master any particular style or media, I move onto the next, whatever interests or excites me.
Phone box covered in crystals is a ‘celebration of modern Britishness’
15 June 2012 • Mark Westall
Pop artist Sir Peter Blake gives iconic phone box a bling makeover with 400,000 Swarovski crystals
Group Show at Whisper Gallery Private View Thursday 23rd February 2012
23 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Peter Blake ,William Blanchard ,Bruce French, Lyle Owerko,Remi Rough,David Shillinglaw Pakpoom Silaphan ,STATIC, LG White,Russell Young.
Your garden is looking a mess at Payne Shurvell Private View Thursday 3rd November 2011
3 November 2011 • Mark Westall
4th November – 17th December Rupert Ackroyd, Peter Blake, Leon Chew, Nicky Coutts, Greg Day, David Gates, Sarah Hardacre, Gerard… Read More
‘MTV RE:DEFINE’ Benefit Art Exhibition and Auction Revealed Opens Friday, September 16th 2011
15 September 2011 • Mark Westall
Lee Baker, Adam Ball, Peter Blake,Billy Childish, D*Face, Brian Adam Douglas, Elizabeth Eamer,Ben Eine, Tracey Emin, Faile, Shepard Fairey
Katrin Fridriks, Christopher Gascoigne, Pam Glew, Haroshi,Pieter Henket,
Damien Hirst, Jeremy Kost, Joseph Loughborough,James Marshall, Harland Miller, Polly Morgan, Gérard Rancinan, Rankin, Stuart Semple
Jamel Shabazz, Benjamin Shine, Gavin Turk, Dan Witz, Russell Young