Peter Yates Exhibition at Margaret Howell - April 14

peter yates exhibition margaret howell april 12 2010
We're delighted to announce that Margaret Howell will be hosting an exhibition of Peter Yates paintings in London starting on April 14th, 2010.

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Peter Yates' Tyneside Cinema Mural: Photographs


peter yates light and shadows tyneside cinema

Light and Shadows on the Wall; Improving Amusements by Peter Yates
Photographs detailing the recently conserved Peter Yates mural at the Tyneside Cinema Read More ...

Lost Peter Yates Murals Uncovered

scotby house harlequin house mural peter yates

Just as Beacon House boxes in their Peter Yates ‘Shells’ mural, two Peter Yates murals are rediscovered in a Ryder and Yates house in Cumbria. The new owners of Harlequin House, as it was known when built have restored the murals to their 1960’s condition.
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Peter Yates Murals

peter yates painting at the tyneside cinema

A collection of images of Peter Yates murals that I’ve amassed over the years
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Restored Peter Yates Mural Unveiled at the Tyneside Cinema

Tyneside Cinema Peter Yates Mural restoredPhotograph : E Ganzert
WC Fields features in this distorted image of the mural.

Also on the night of April the 23rd, Peter Yates’ freshly renovated 1976 mural entitled “Shadows and Light” was unveiled at the newly reopened Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. “It portrays a potted history of moving pictures, starting with a Victorian zeotrope machine and ending with an Andy Warhol-inspired portrait of Marilyn Monroe”.
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'Shells' Mural by Peter Yates, Beacon House

Beacon House Shells Mural Peter Yates Whitley Bay
On popping into Beacon House in Whitley Bay, I was surprised and delighted to see the Peter Yates "Shells" mural still intact and in great condition after almost 50 years !

They have clearly been cherished and decorated around with great care ever since they were painted in 1959.

4.3.2009 : UPDATE ... I am sad to report that after 50 years, the "Shells" Mural has sadly been lost to the evils of Magnolia emulsion.






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'Cinema's Classic Pictures see the Light'


Article, David Whetstone, Newcastle Journal, December 15th, 2006
‘Cinema's Classic Pictures see the Light’

Tyneside Cinema
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Peter Yates' Bevin Court Mural

Bevan Court Mural by Peter Yates for Lubetkin 1954
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