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Peter Doig
Shortlisted: 1994

Peter Doig's work is known for balancing its purely visual, decorative and abstract qualities with narrative or representational content. His main subject has been the traditional theme of mankind in nature, but his works draw on a wide range of material, from traditional western landscapists such as Claude Lorrain, to newspaper photographs, postcards, film stills and travel brochures.

Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959, and he has lived in London since 1979. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art from 1979 to 1983, and then at St Martin's School of Art. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, for his exhibition of painting at the Victoria Miro Gallery.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Peter Doig in the Tate Collection