Peter Treherne is a moving image artist focusing on the lived histories of rural workers and communities. His artwork has been exhibited at galleries and festivals around the world including the Institute of Contemporary Arts London and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, has been funded by the Arts Council of England, and is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and Kinoscope.
He is currently working on Matter of Britain, an ethnographic document of an English Country village, which combines recordings of daily work across the four seasons with community performances of the Arthurian Waste Land mythology.
Peter was also founder and director of the Slow Film Festival, an organisation dedicated to sharing moving image art with rural audiences. As director, he collaborated with the British Council and MUBI to exhibit work from artists including James Benning, Babette Mangolte and Kevin Jerome Everson. He remains a trustee of the organisation.