Resident 2008
Peter Peryer (1941 – 2018) completed a Master of Arts in Education at the University of Auckland and went on to lecture in English in English at Auckland Teachers College and where he began photographing in the early 1970s. Largely self taught he was one of the five inaugural laureates of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. His work was included in the Active Eye, the first survey of contemporary New Zealand photography, mounted by the Manawata Art Gallery in 1975. Peryer held his first solo exhibition at the Dowse Art Gallery Museum in 1977; this was the first solo exhibition of a contemporary photographer at a New Zealand public art gallery.
His work has been extensively exhibited in public and private art galleries throughout New Zealand and internationally, in solo exhibition and group shows.
Peter donated a photograph and several books on his works donated a photograph and several books on his works.