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Take Five

Exhibition: March 1, 2025 -
April 19, 2025

Artist: Peter Hall

Opening Event: February 28, 2025

Expressive colour, virtuosic detail and a free ranging approach to subject matter define the work of Peter Hall. Equally at home in the abstract and the representational, Hall’s paintings are a creative tour de force, surveyed here through 16 key works produced over his six decade career.

Take Five is a fleet-footed journey through Hall’s varied career, exploring his contemporary practice alongside its fascinating antecedents in the swinging sixties where he made his mark as a leading textile designer and subsequent decades as a commercial designer. Viewers are invited into a generous and eclectic artistic world where arts and craft sensibilities segue into hard-edge geometric abstraction, pop art and to the artist’s uniquely characteristic landscapes.

Dynamic and adventurous, Hall’s art takes energy and inspiration from his love of jazz. As challenging to define as the artist’s practice, jazz provides a suitable metaphor for the works in this exhibition – in their virtuosity, vibrancy and sense of play.

About the artist

British-born Peter Hall graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 1961 before a 44-year long career as a textile designer. His freelance design work took him all over the world, travelling extensively through Europe, before eventually leading him to settle in  South Africa in 1976 before a move to Howick in 1987. His work is extensively collected, both locally and internationally including in the collection of the Vicotria and Albert Museum, London.