Peter McArdle (born 17 December 1965) is an English artist, member of the Stuckists art group, and gallery owner.

He finished St. Aidan's RC School (Ashbrooke, Sunderland) in 1983, at which point he began to get sales for his paintings, which have supported him since.

[1] Images are mostly one or several figures in an empty room, often seemingly unaware of each other's presence, and given titles that are equally enigmatic.

He has said that the images "hover on the frontier between the familiar and the enigmatic, addressing a range of contemporary issues.

They are an endless and imperceptible moving to and fro between dream and reality",[2] and also that they draw on his personal experience, as well as art history and mass media popular culture, acknowledging the difficulty of his work, which requires time and engagement from the viewer.