Artist Peter Harris was born in London in 1923. Dubbed the ‘White Tiger’, Peter Harris had helped send several talented artists to study in England. Peter Harris studied at the West of England College of Art in 1939, and taught at the Arts and Crafts Faculty in the College Art School in Swindon in 1947. He was better known for setting up the art coterie, Wednesday Art Group (WAG), which was active between 1952 to 1960. In England, he was head of the Creative Arts Faculty at the Sheldon School in Chippenham until 1976, and was awarded a MBE by Queen Elizabeth II. He recovered from cancer in 1993 after a three-month treatment. In 1996, Galeri Wan organised a WAG – "Then and Now" reunion exhibition. Harris was given a retrospective in October-November 1997, which was his second after his 1960 Retrospective given by the National Art Gallery. In 2001, The Art Gallery Penang organised a large Tribute exhibition for him. Peter Harris passed away in 2009.