Peter Neill is a visual artist living and working in Northern Ireland. He was formerly Course Director of the BA(Hons) course in Photography in the University of Ulster, Belfast and his photographic work has featured in publications such as British Journal of Photography, Creative Camera, Photo Technik International and Irish Arts Review. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and was a founding member of the editorial team of Source photographic review.
His early photography is rooted in memories drawn from the domestic family environment, cinema and graphic media. Much of this work was made during 30 years of ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland. Equivocality and the visual metaphor have always been part of his working method.
His recent work has investigated Ireland’s political history and subsequent partition. It examines how this conflict is remembered and commemorated in history, memory and myth.