Peter minshall biography

Trinidadian artist (born 1941)

Peter Minshall (born 16 July 1941) is a Trinidadiancarnival artist (described colloquially in Trinidad and Tobago as a "mas-man").

Early life

Peter Minshall was born in Georgetown, Guyana on July 16, 1941.^[1] He moved to Trinidad as a small child after his father took a job as a cartoonist. Growing up in Port of Spain, Minshall was exposed to Carnival from a young age.

He made his first costume at age 13. He attended Queen's Royal College, then went on to study Theatre Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London.

Minshall designed Carnival costumes for relatives and family friends while in school.

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At art school, he wrote a thesis about the bat (a traditional Carnival character). His first major theatrical commission, for a production at Sadler's Wells, came after a director saw a portfolio of his Carnival designs.

Minshall's mother asked him to create a costume for his adopted sister Sherry-Ann Guy (