Peter Abrahams studied Architecture for one year at the University of Liverpool before training in London as a painter and printmaker at Camberwell School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools and Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
Image visualisation through process-based techniques, printmaking and quasi-technological means has been integral to the formation of all Abrahams’ visual languages since 1988.
Photography was first encouraged as a tool of social and formal analysis in the School of Architecture at Liverpool and subsequently Abrahams used the camera as an independent instrument alongside work in painting, drawing and printmaking. Photography came to play an increasing role in his production and since 2002 it has been his principal medium.
Major bodies of photographic work are The Active And Contemplative Life, an association of street images in diptych format which problematise the relationship between stillness and movement, present and continuous time, and Illuminations, a sequence of studio-based, still-life images.
Peter Abrahams is also known as a skilled practitioner in the photographic documentation of paintings, three-dimensional works of art, and gallery and studio installations.