Biography
Christopher Perkins (b. Peterborough, UK 1891 - d. 1968) was educated at Gresham School, Holt. He studied art at Heatherley School of Art, London in 1907, in Rome in 1908 and at the Slade School of Fine Art, where his fellow students included: Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler and Stanley Spencer. He served in the army during WWI; then whilst living in France, he wrote 'Essay on Museums', St Tropez (1925). From 1929-34 Perkins lived in New Zealand and taught at Wellington Technical College until 1930, exhibiting at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Art, 1929-33 and in Sydney, Australia, 1933. Returning to Britain in 1933 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He served in the army again during WW2 and was an unofficial war artist. For a time he lived in Suffolk and Jersey. His work is held by the Imperial War Museum, London and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi a Tamaki.
