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ARTIST & CURATOR

My artwork spans a wide array of mediums – collage, generative art, moving images, digital imaging, photomontage, zine-making, and creative writing.

In addition to my creations, I’ve curated public art projects across the North of England, from transforming advertising panels into vibrant showcases of creativity to a successful Art Rental business.

Sunderland University
(September 2006 – June 2007)
PG Dip Film & Television Production

Sunderland University
(September 2003 – June 2004)
MA Fine Art

Sunderland University
(January 1994 – June 1995)
MA Art In Context

Sunderland University
(September 1989 – June 1992)
BA Fine Art

COMMISSIONS

2024 Washington: My Bizarre Hometown: Commissioned to produce a freezine for Washington Heritage Festival, a whimsical take on living in Washington, Sunderland.
2023 Trout Memo Solo Exhibition Art Centre, Washington.
2023 AI The Wrong Biennale Priestman Gallery Sunderland University: New Narratives, a series of AI images inspired by such films as The Ninth Configuration and Chris Marker’s Le Jettee.
2020-2023 Art Stops project, curated over 100 Artists works to display on Bus Panels throughout the Durham County area. Mixing International Artists’ work with three local Art community groups.
2019 Listening Art: Art residency at Great North Children’s Hospital funded an app development by NE Creative Fuse. Set up doodle stations for children to draw and capture the content for an installation in their MediCinema.
2018 Wabi-Sabi: curated an exhibition of 12 Artists @ TESTT Space, Durham, exploring the imperfections in artists’ works.
2016 VJ Performance @ 74 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London. In collaboration with Collageist Collective and the Art Agency, Creative Debut.
2015: VJ Performance @ Fitzrovia Hotel, London. In collaboration with Collageist Collective and the Art Agency, Creative Debut.
2013 Apples & Snakes Basic FM. The Radio Commission explores the idea of dipping into spoken-word programmes, involving an hour of poetry, sound and field recordings.
2011 Darker Than Night: Researcher for a Film Noir Exhibition, Derby Quad, Derby.
2010 Gleam Festival 2010: Derby Gallery and Museum. Outside projection including images from the Museum Collection using iCoda.
2010 Derby Gallery and Museum, Gleam Festival. Outside projection including images from the Museum Collection using iCoda.
2009 Researcher for Darker Than Night Film Noir Exhibition, Derby Quad
2009 Red Nile Video Commission: Produced and edited three short films for Red Nile Factory Night, Berwick/Sunderland/Saltburn. A site-specific project responding to buildings and spaces. Three commissions,s including a short film on Saltburn, Joplins in Sunderland and using iCoda responding to Berwick Town Hall.
2009 Threshold Studios Critical Mass. Wrote and produced Helter Skelter, responding to the theme of Dreams and Nightmares.
2008 Digital City Fellowship, Teesside University, developed iCoda Software
2007 Inspire Wansbeck Council. Made a short film inspired by flood-damaged photos. The theme was ‘Lounge art’, ambient background films for their information centres.
2007 Piggyback Arts, Peephole Cinema, Waygood Gallery. The theme was ‘peep show’ which was a shop window in the city centre with peep-holes to view the films. I wrote and produced Hole, a film exploring my hallucinatory experiences suffering from asthma as a child.
2006 Art Residency, Tanfield School: Funded by The Forge, Beamish Museum/Tanfield School. Assistant Media artist in a 3-month residency in Tanfield, Durham.
We produced a film and performance on the theme of personal archives.
2005 Illuminate Festival, Bradford Council. Wrote and produced an experimental travelogue, Meme, on the five cities of Yorkshire.
Interviewing Artists, Sound Artists, Performers and sculptors. The film was called MEME, an idea of swapping ideas and skills with other artists to create a moving image piece.
2004 A Real Life Soap Opera: Platform 000004, Waygood Gallery. Performance and Video Installation. I hired five actors to play a disruptive family causing havoc around the City Centre, using a hidden camera, I replayed the footage in a living room installation I built in the Gallery.

FILMOGRAPHY

HELTER SKELTER 2009 Mini DV, Super 8.
Screenings: 
Technophobia Film Festival San Francisco, Washington DC 2013
Star and Shadow 2012
Quad Cinema Derby 2011
Studio Q Sunderland 2011
Harkers Warehouse Halloween 2009
 TAPESTRY 
Archetime Film Festival  New York 2010
Various Information Centres, Northumberland 2007-08
MEME
Bradford Millennium Square Big Screen, Illuminate Festival 2006
HOME COOKING: EARTIQUE. BASIC FM

2013: Eartique experimental spoken word for Basic FM.
iCoda Palimpsest app published on the App Store iOS 2011
iCODA SOFTWARE
iCoda Palimpsest app published on the App Store iOS 2011
iCoda IOS Curated Four International Artists to release an iCoda Preload iTunes Store
San Francisco: film company Dream of Dead Cats, LA: Legendary graphic designer David Carson,
Sunderland band New Electric Ride and New York Collage Artist Elisa Sarti.
iCoda Open 2018: IOS open version in which you could create your own sound interactive slideshows.
iCodagraph 2019: IOS and Android upgrade with image masks, and a visual mixer with a database of music to activate the images, or you could choose the mic on the device.

Publications

2025: The Stand-Up, an experimental novella of the stream of consciousness of an existential comedian.
2024: Washington, My Bizarre Hometown: a freezine for a festival giveaway.
2023: Trout Memo 2, Trout Memo, The Dream Diaries: A compilation of Collage work inspired by Dream Diaries. KDP Amazon.
2020: Trout Memo, The Dream Diaries: A compilation of Collage work inspired by Dream Diaries. KDP Amazon.
2019: The Accidental Moustache and Other Drawings, Black Scat Books, USA
2017: The 9 Henry Zone: A book on cartoons exploring the absurdity of everyday life. KDP.
2016: The Big Kink: A collection of short neo-noir stories.

“Pete is a creative genius, always
developing inspirational new ideas. Pete is brilliant at linking ideas, art, and technology to create amazing new synergies.”

Keith Jeffrey
Breakthrough Coaching.

I regularly run live music events and wanted something special to create a real talking point. We used iCoda at a gig at Northern Stage, with the musicians working alongside Peter to create unique visuals that provided a real focal point of the event.

Claire Dupree
NARC. Magazine

“When our artist, Rick Shaffer, wanted a fast come-at-you video, he immediately requested the expertise of Peter McAdam. He created a rapid atmospheric tapestry of images in a commercial subliminal storytelling format.”

Theresa Marchione
Tarock Music

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