Peter Lowe was a founder member of the Systems Group, a highly influential (if somewhat neglected) art movement. Lowe studied under Kenneth and Mary Martin and was a friend and contemporary of Anthony Hill and Gillian Wise. In 1965 he began teaching at Goldsmiths College in London, holding a position there until 2000.
In the 1970s, alongside a small group of artists including Jeffrey Steele, Michael Kidner and Peter Sedgley, Lowe founded the ‘Systems Group’: a radical movement which created modern, minimalist and conceptual artwork, linked to the wider environment’s structured systems and processes. In 1969, the group held their first formal exhibition in Helsinki, titled Systeemi System.