Since 2016, Peter has Coordinated the 1^st Year programme for the BA Hons Painting Course at Gray’s School of Art.

2003-2007 B.A Hons Fine Art: Painting (First Class), Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

Peter’s work questions how he can approach making in the face of a threat from meaninglessness. Beyond a question of whether he should be making at all, Peter’s work is centred around a question of what and how to make and whether the act of making can in itself create meaning.

Recent work seeks to evoke the sense of suspense found in a glimpse over a dividing wall or the action that occurs just off stage – echoing a reality that anticipates the possibility of meaning, but that must find a way of existing without any certainty of it. 

Painted Conversations is a series of exhibitions organised and facilitated by Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers, a collaborative partnership that has formed through their roles as Lecturers and Early Career Researchers in the Painting Department at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.  The project seeks to consider and test the potential of visual dialogues between practitioners in realising breakthroughs in Painting practice.  The first exhibition opened in June 2022 and presented the work of Gilmour and Chalmers together for the first time. Subsequent exhibitions feature invited artists from throughout the UK.

Hope Scott Trust

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy