Peter Mennim
Peter Mennim (born 1955) is a British artist, based in Cambridge. He grew up in York, and was educated at Worksop College and Reading University. His commissions include a large group portrait for the 40th anniversary of Wolfson College, Cambridge (his father Michael Mennim having been the architect of its first buildings) and Group Portrait of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York held at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall, York and a portrait of Duncan Robinson, commissioned when master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Peter Mennim
- Born
- 1955
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Languages
- English
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Peter Mennim (born 1955) is a British artist, based in Cambridge. He grew up in York, and was educated at Worksop College and Reading University. His commissions include a large group portrait for the 40th anniversary of Wolfson College, Cambridge (his father Michael Mennim having been the architect of its first buildings) and Group Portrait of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York held at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall, York and a portrait of Duncan Robinson, commissioned when master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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During the 1980s and early 1990s he worked as an illustrator and produced many film posters and book covers including the book jacket The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the record cover art for the Rum Sodomy & the Lash by The Pogues, the movie posters The Crow (1994 film) and Highlander II: The Quickening.
The recorded working language is English. Work by Peter Mennim is recorded in the collections of Merchant Adventurers' Hall.
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1955
Peter Mennim was born on 1 January 1955.
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- 1.The College Painting. Wolfson College Magazine. 29. 91–92. 2004–2005.
- 2.Wolfson College Mural (1965–2005). Art UK.
- 3.Art UK. Group Portrait of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York.
- 4.Peter Mennim. Archives: Illustrations.
- 5.ISFDB. Peter Mennim – Chronological Bibliography.
- 6.Rum Sodomy & the Lash - Credits on MSN Music.
- 7.Branaghan, Sim. ‘’British Film Posters – An Illustrated History’’. BFI Publishing, 2006, p. 220.
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