Peter Kennard
Peter Kennard (born 17 February 1949) is a London born and based photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain at the Royal College of Art. Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views. He is best known for the images he created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1970s–80s including a detournment of John Constable's Hay Wain called "Haywain with Cruise Missiles".
Because many of the left-wing organisations and publications he used to work with have disappeared, Kennard has turned to using exhibitions, books and the internet for his work.
Kennard has work in the public collections of several major London museums and the The Arts Council of England. He has his work displayed as part of Tate Britain's permanent collection and is on public view as part of 2013's rehang "A Walk Through British Art".
Education
Kennard originally trained as a painter at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London and later at the Royal College of Art, where he is now Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art, and the Public Domain.
