Mr Peter Sharp
Bed ART, Grad Dip Prof ART, MFA
听
Peter Sharp鈥檚 research over twenty five years has consistently been about the visual exploration and understanding of how nature works and fits together through the lense of abstraction.
His art covers a wide range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and video.听
鈥淪harp鈥檚 paintings, with their fluid lines and deep colours, worked surfaces and biomorphic forms, are abstractions of landscape. Or, more precisely, they are records of Sharp鈥檚 reactions to the landscape. Visual interpretations that serve witness to his process.鈥 (Andrew Frost, 鈥淛ust Enough鈥, Peter Sharp: Will to Form, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 2012, p13)
鈥淚 tend to fall in love with a subject, then filter it through different media鈥 My primary media would be drawing, as without that initial interrogation of the landscape I鈥檇 be lost! Drawing tends to be less ego-drive, more open鈥︹ (Peter Sharp, 鈥淣ot the Way 91成人版抖音: Desert Paintings from 13 Artists鈥, Artist Profile, Issue 18, 2012, p56-57)
Sharp completed a Bachelor of Art Education at City Art Institute, Sydney in 1987 before graduating with a Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts in 1992. From 1989-1999, Sharp held regular solo exhibitions at Coventry Gallery, Sydney. In 1996, Sharp's work was acquired by Grafton Regional Gallery as part of the Jacaranda Drawing Prize and in the following year was granted a residency at the Cite鈥 des Arts Internationale, Paris, where he collaborated with French printmakers to make a series of lithographs and etchings. In 1999, he was invited to exhibit at Kunstraum 34 in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2001, Sharp participated in the award winning television documentary Two-Thirds Sky, which culminated in an exhibition of the same title held at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre. His paintings have been exhibited in the Wynne Prize (1996, 2003), the Sulman Prize (1998, 2008) and the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2009, 2010) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2009, Sharp was invited to be part of the Taronga Zoo Artist-in-Residence program which was featured on the ABC.
In 2011, Artist Profile magazine sponsored a group of 13 artists including Peter Sharp to travel to Fowler's Gap in far western NSW and respond to their surrounding landscape in a body of work. Curated by Owen Craven and in association with Winsor & Newton, 'Not the Way 91成人版抖音', an exhibition of the artists' work was exhibited at S.H Ervin Gallery, The National Trust, NERAM, and Broken Hill City Art Gallery in 2012.
Sharp has exhibited widely in group exhibitions including: Insight Radical: Where Science Meets Art at Griffin Gallery, London (2013), Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney (2011), Artist Artists, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria (2011), Silk and Sand: Chinese and Australian Prints, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney; The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (2008) and Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria (2008). Sharp was selected for the Salon des Refuses at the S. H. Ervin Gallery, The National Trust in 2013 and in 2014.听
In 2012, Sharp held his first survey at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre titled 'Peter Sharp: Will to Form', curated by Liz Nowell and featured works from over a 15 year period. This survey also culminated in the publication 'Peter Sharp: Will to Form', a 120 page fully illustrated hardback catalogue, which includes essays by Andrew Frost and Gillian Serisier.
In November 2014, Sharp was selected for the inaugural Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, titled "Drawing Out" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Anne Ryan.
Sharp鈥檚 work is held in many significant public and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The Holmes a Court Collection, Artbank, The Macquarie Group Collection, New England Regional Art Museum, St Vincent's Hospital, Sports & Entertainment LTD and private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and overseas. Peter Sharp lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
听
Student HDR Completions and Topics
2008 听 听 听Anthony O'Carroll听 听 听 听 听 听The history of Matter Painting in Australia 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Juliana O'Dean听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听The Materiality of Stone 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2009 听 听 听Simon Taylor听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Articulating the Grid 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2010 听 听 听Carmel Byrne听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Above the Grid: Multiple Perspectives in Landscape 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Fiona Edmonds听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Body of Water 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Peter Laris听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Geometric Urban Landscape 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Damian Moss听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Subjectivity and Authorship: Surface and Materiality in Painting and Drawing 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Stuart Watters听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 The Shape of Language 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听2011 听 听 Paul Du Moulin听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Enter the Network 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 MFA 听听
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Cyndi Freeman听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听A Requiem for Handwriting 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Kieran McInnes听 听 听 听 听 听 听 An investigation of European pictorial conventions with reference to
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听contemporary Australian听landscape painting 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Paul Williams听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听The Studio of the Painter: Process and Play 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2014 听 听 听Yiwon Park听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Unknown Familiar story of Us: Personal Mythologies 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听听MFA
2015 听 听 听Paul Davies听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Pastiche; A lense to view the present 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Gillan Lavery听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 91成人版抖音 Remains 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Kate Swinson听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Ephemeral Habitats built from the memory of childhood 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Jennie Holtsbaum听 听 听 听 听 Traces of Wilderness 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Shannon Sheppard-Sims 听 听 MONSTER ISLAND: A tale of contemporary Australian heterosexual
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听masculinity听and its descent from the spectre of colonial convict history 听 听 听 听 听 听 听PhD
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Sarah Park听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Experimental & Visual explorations into altering the perception and stigma of
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Scars 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2016 听 听 听Wendy Stokes听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 The Nympheas: retraced, re-membered; as lived encounter 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2017 听 听 听Marikat Santiago听 听 听 听 听 听 Halo Halo - A collection of short stories 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2018听 听 听 Rachel Honnery听 听 听 听 听 听 听 absolute kippleization and The Plastosystem听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2019听 听 听 Carol Hudson听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Intertidal听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听MFA
2021听 听 听 Nicole Kelly听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Unsettling Landscape in Australia听 听 听 听听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 MFA
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision