Biography
From 1964 to 1968 she studied painting at the High School of Fine Arts, and from 1972 to 1976 she studied sculpture at the College of Fine Arts, followed by two more years of master's studies. Since the first half of the 1980s she has been actively involved in the restoration of buildings and sculptures in the capital (for example, the new lion ornament on Vörösmarty Square). From the middle of the decade, she regularly visited art workshops during the summer (Siklós - ceramics, Mezőtúr, Nyíregyháza - bronze casting, Dunaújváros, Győr - iron, steel) and participated with her works in art fairs (small sculpture-Pécs, medal-Sopron, ceramics-Pécs, sculpture Budafok). In addition, she has also undertaken monumental commissions (e.g. an oratorio with Enikő Szöllősy in Káposztásmegyer). An extremely important part of her wide-ranging professional activity is the organizational and managerial work she has carried out for the successful operation of the Symposion Society and Symposion Foundation, as well as her activities within the art associations (in particular the Folyamat Society and the Szinyei Society).
After her initial figurative periods, Peter produced non-figurative sculptures - essentially geometric, capturing structure, texture and construction. A characteristic feature of her works is the predominance of composition with a vertical emphasis, a verticality that breaks, deviates and disrupts. Rising upwards, the forms, bodies, masses, skeletons, variations of tetrahedron and sculpture are either objects that create a centre, centralised and space-forming, or they are space-confining, as if condensing space: they mark out centres through their motifs. The use of materials is varied: in addition to precious materials such as marble, stone and bronze, her sculptures are also made in iron, chrome steel and ceramics. The natural appearance is more important than the shaping of the materials: the inclusion of fragmented, ruined, corrosion-cracked elements and components alongside shiny surfaces. The central element is the soaring wedge or cone that cleaves infinite space.