Peter Mammes is a South African-born artist based in London working across drawing, painting, print and sculpture. He is internationally exhibited, with a practice rooted in research-led visual systems that explore historical and cultural narratives through pattern, symbol and iconography. His work synthesises extensive archival research with motifs sourced on travels across Egypt, India, Russia and beyond, with particular references to ancient hieroglyphics, war imagery, colonial histories and pattern systems as expressive forms of human experience.  

Mammes attended the National School of the Arts, Johannesburg, where he received his formal training. He held his first solo exhibition at age sixteen and has exhibited consistently internationally since. He was commissioned to design a commemorative coin for circulation by the South African Mint (2019), released in celebration of 25 years of constitutional democracy. He lives and works in London.