PETER WESTWOOD
Peter Westwood is an artist, curator and arts writer living in Melbourne. Peter completed his undergraduate study, a Diploma of Fine Art at the University of Ballarat in 1978. His postgraduate studies include a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from RMIT University (1981), a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne (1982) and a Master of Arts by Research from Monash University (1995). He is currently completing his PhD at RMIT University. His PhD research topic is titled Transition and passage: Agency and the idiom of Painting as a marker of change.
Peter’s painting reveals or describes perpetual change in order to capture or embody the passing nature of experience. His practice focuses on both the production and installation of painting as a method to present ideas of social experience as a type of unending passivity shaped through continuous viewing and consumption.
Peter has been included in group, and individual exhibitions in public and commercial galleries in Australia and overseas. He has curated two to three annual exhibition projects for the past 20 years in Australia, and periodically overseas. Peter is employed at RMIT University in the School of Art as a Senior Lecturer and is Program Coordinator of the Honours Program.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 After all, NKN Gallery, Melbourne 2015 The Poor Hospital (passage and fate), NKN Gallery, Melbourne 2013 Drive, Blindside ARI, Melbourne Staring back at the world, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
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PHONE: +61 (0)3 9429 0660 2011 Look out, Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne 2010 Dieback, Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne 2009 48 Portraits, Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Hard Times, The Doll’s House, Melbourne 2004 Similarities and differences, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne 2003 Shape, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne 1996 Things that have happened, Temple Studio, Melbourne 1995 Fruit of the forest, School of Art, Monash University, Melbourne 1992 Bandwagons, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1991 Untitled (Paintings), Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1989 Assemblages, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne 1988 Paintings, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne 1986 Drawings, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Spring 1883, Blockprojects, The Hotel Winsor, Melbourne 2016 Painting, More Painting, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2016 Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Award, Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne 2015 The Door in the Wall, Blindside ARI, Melbourne 2014 Head: Incidents Above a Bar (part 4), The Alderman, Melbourne Asteroid, Winter Spinnerei 2014, Leipzig International Artist in Residence Program (LIA), Spinnerei Arts Complex, Leipzig, Germany 2013 Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing
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PHONE: +61 (0)3 9429 0660 #3, New York Studio School, New York, USA 2012 A place to eat from, Atelier Dorrit Nebe, Cologne, Germany People … ahh People, Gallery Mesh, Seoul, South Korea The Rick Amor Drawing Prize, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria Contemporary Australian Drawing #2: drawing as notation, text and discovery, University of Arts London, United Kingdom, and 120 Langford Street, Melbourne 2011 Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East, intersections of understanding, Gallery Tashkeel & American University, United Arab Emirates Australian Art of the 1970’s, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria 2010 2010: How can a Network…..?, West Space Gallery, Melbourne 1918 ArtSPACE, Shanghai, China Winter, Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne 2010 Beleura National Works on Paper (invitation), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Magnetic Islands, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne Distinction, 99 Creative Centre, Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts, China 2009 - 2010 The Shilo Project, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, and touring nationally 2009 Imagine, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria 2008 The Mars Project, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne 2007 Eye to ‘I’ - the self in recent art, The Art Gallery of
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PHONE: +61 (0)3 9429 0660 Ballarat, Victoria and touring nationally 2006 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Victoria The men’s gallery, The Doll’s House, Melbourne 2003 Group Show 2, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne 2002 Group Show, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne 2001 31st Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Teritory Mediations, Mass Gallery, Melbourne 1997 The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1996 Superstar, Billboard project funded by Arts Victoria, Melbourne A Centre of Culture, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria 1992 Scotchmans Hill Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria 1991 Painting, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne 1989 The ICI contemporary exhibition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and touring nationally Decadence – 10 years of 200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne Adelaide Festival, The Living Arts Centre, South Australia New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne Reconnaissance, Launceston Community Arts Centre, Tasmania 1988 New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne 1987 New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne Young Australians, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and touring internationally The Golden Shibboleth, 200 Gertrude Street,
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PHONE: +61 (0)3 9429 0660 Melbourne 1985 Acquisitions for the Michell Collection, Melbourne University Gallery, Victoria The McCaughey Prize (invitation), The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1983 The New Art: works from the Michell Endowment, Banyul, National Gallery of Victoria annex, Melbourne 1979 Still life still lives, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, and touring nationally Michell Endowment, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Some Recent Art of the Ballarat Region, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES 2016 Winner of the 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (major prize award) 2014 Artist residency: LIA - The Leipzig International Art Program, Germany 2012 Project Grant, City of Melbourne, Victoria 2010 Artist residency: East China Normal University, Shanghai, China 2002 Curatorial residency: Crossing: New Art from Australia, ÄLTO, Helsinki, Finland
COLLECTIONS Artbank, Sydney Auckland Art Gallery / Toi O Tamaki, Auckland Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Melbourne Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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BIBLIOGRAPHY M. Delany, Painting, More Painting, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2016 J. Powles, The Poor Hospital (passage and fate), NKN Gallery, Melbourne 2015 Accompanying poem ‘Heel’ by Paul Carter, 2015 S. Cox, ‘The Waiting Places’, catalogue essay accompanying the exhibition Staring back at the world, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, 2013 J. Powles, ‘An order of sorts’, essay accompanying the exhibition Dieback. Melbourne, 2010 K. Song and M. Qui, Distinction, exhibition catalogue, Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts, China, 2010 C. McAuliffe,The Shilo Project, exhibition catalogue, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 2009 G. Wallace, Eye to “I” - the self in recent art, exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2007 L. Zahra, ‘Rhapsody 21C,’ Artist Curator Academic, University of Tasmania Press, Hobart, 2005 R. Lindsay, The Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Shell Company of Australia Ltd., Melbourne, 1995 R. Lindsay, ICI Contemporary Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, ICI Australia Ltd., Melbourne, 1989 R. Lindsay, Young Australians, exhibition catalogue, Budget Transport Collection, Melbourne, 1987 R. Lindsay, The Golden Shibboleth, exhibition catalogue, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 1987 R. Radford, Still Life Still Lives, exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery
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ADDRESS: Level 1 / 252 Church St Richmond, VIC, 3121
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PHONE: +61 (0)3 9429 0660