Peter van der Veer, photographer, designer and painter, studied at Prahran College in the 1970s. In 1976 his work was exhibited in the Young Australian Avant-Garde exhibition at the Bibliotheque Naitonale in Paris. After teaching briefly at RMIHE in Wagga he has taught privately since. He won the Tasmanian Heritage Prize in 1983, 1984 and 1986.