Peter F. Daly was born in Coraki, Northern NSW(New South Wales),in 1947. After having traveled, gotten work experience, and time in Vietnam, he completed a BA in Visual Arts in 1989, as well as a Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts in 1990 at Sydney's City Art Institute and the university of New South Wales. He was awarded a graduate college fellowship at Western Michigan university where he completed an MFA in 1996.Daly's commitment to political art practice is nowhere more evident than in his continuing involvement in exhibitions about Australia's participation in the Vietnam War, and particularly about the conflict's aftermath.