Peter is a visual artist designing set and costume for theatre, working across devised and site-specific performance, new writing, classic stories and most recently opera.
Peter’s spatial compositions and costume designs blend layered contemporary references, historical elements, provisional architecture and familiar objects that delve into and skew his understanding and engagement of the creative process behind conventional theatre design. His skeletal design for A Taste of Honey at The Manchester Exchange invited audiences to move beyond viewing his work as purely aesthetic to encourage those watching the play to become active participants in ‘meaning-making’. In 2023, Peter sought to further blur the boundaries of his creative practice by broadening his focus to co-director and visual dramaturg, working with one hundred performers to make Short Big Show at Somerset House with the PappyShow.
Upcoming projects include large-scale movement work, collaborating with a choreographer, composer and fifty performers aged 10 to 80+ to make a contemporary dance piece and collective call for community action culminating in a new work for 2025. Together with Director Franciska Ery and Lighting Designer Mathieu Cabanes, Peter has been nominated as a semi-finalist of the RING AWARD 2025. Peter returns to the Royal Exchange to design Abigail’s Party. Other credits in performance design include; Shut Up I’m Dreaming at National Theatre; Boy Parts at Soho Theatre; The Shape of Things for Park 200 (2023 Stage Debut Award nomination for Best Design); Attempts on Her Life at Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Anthem & Horizon at Bush Theatre; As associate set designer credits include; Mnemonic at National Theatre and Cabaret: Prologue at the KitKat Club at Playhouse Theatre.
Peter trained at Central Saint Martins where he graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) in Performance Design & Practice where he has since returned to lead workshops and teach. In 2021 shortly after graduating, he was awarded The Linbury Prize for Stage Design.