Peter Westwood is an artist, curator and arts writer living in Melbourne. His art practice has centered on ideas of the reflective self within a complex and amorphous society. He has worked through a long-standing interest in painting, but also works through video, drawing, installation and collage. And for many years he has also focused on the complementary relationships of artist, writer and curator. Westwood has been included in group and individual exhibitions in public and commercial galleries in Australia and overseas. His work is included in the permanent collections of art museums, regional galleries and corporations, and he has curated two to three annual exhibition projects for the past 20 years in Australia, and also periodically overseas.
Education
2013 – Research Higher Degree Candidate: PhD, School of Art, RMIT University (concurrent)
2003 -Certificate IV Workplace Training, School of Education, RMIT University
1995 – Master of Arts, Research, School of Art, Monash University, Exhibition project with accompanying publication
1982 – Graduate Diploma in Education, School of Education, University of Melbourne
1981 -Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, School of Art, RMIT University
1976 -Diploma of Fine Art, University of Ballarat
Solo Exhibitions
2013 – Drive, Blindside ARI, Melbourne
Staring back at the world, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
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 (selection)
2013 – Reading the Space: Contemporary Australian Drawing #3, New York Studio School, USA
2012 – A place to eat from, Michael Jäger Collection, Atelier Dorrit Nebe, Cologne, Germany
People … ahh People, Gallery Mesh, Seoul, South Korea; curator Mihwa Park
The Rick Amor Drawing Prize, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Contemporary Australian Drawing #2:drawing as notation, text and discovery, University of Arts London, UK; 120 Langford Street, Melbourne; curator Dr Irene Barberis
2011 – Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East, intersections of understanding, Gallery Tashkeel & American University United Arab Emirates (UAE). An exhibition involving the work of six artists from Australia, six artists from the UK and eight artists from the United Arab Emirates, curated by Princess Shiekha Latifa and Dr Irene Barberis, Dubai
Australian Art of the 1970’s. The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2010 – 2010: How can a Network…..? The South Project, curator Zara Stanhope, West Wing (part of the program of West Space Gallery, Melbourne
1918 ArtSPACE, No,20 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai, PR China
Winter, Jenny Port Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Beleura National Works on Paper, (invitation) Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington
Magnetic Islands, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery, RMIT University – a joint survey of contemporary drawing from Seoul University and RMIT University – project component of the international Drawing Out Conference conducted by RMIT University and the University of Arts London, Melbourne
Distinction, 99 Creative Centre, Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts, M50 Moganshan Lu Arts Complex; curator Song Kexi; writer/theorist Qui Min., Shanghai
2009 – 2010 – The Shilo Project, curator Dr Chris McAuliffe
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne
NETS touring exhibition: Mildura Arts Centre, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Australia
Imagine, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
2008 – The Mars Project, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne
2007 – Eye to ‘I’ – the self in recent art, curator Geoff Wallis
The Art Gallery of Ballarat. NETS touring exhibition: Warrnambool Art Gallery, Hamilton Art Gallery, Australia
2006 – Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo
The men’s gallery, curator, Rebecca Mayo. 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
Mediations, curator, David Harley. 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, Ballarat
1992 – Scotchmans Hill Art Prize, Geelong Regional Gallery, Geelong
1991 – Painting, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1989 – The ICI contemporary exhibition, traveled to Regional galleries in Victoria and NSW, Australia
Decadence–10 years of 200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Adelaide Festival, The Living Arts Centre, Adelaide
New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Reconnaissance, Launceston Community Arts Centre, Launceston
1988 – New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
1987 – New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne
Young Australians, inaugural exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria; traveled to State and Regional galleries in Australia and a range of museums in the USA
The Golden Shibboleth, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1985 – Acquisitions for the Michell Collection, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne
The McCaughey Prize, 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, Visual Arts Board traveling exhibition; inaugural exhibition at the The Art Gallery of Ballarat. Regional galleries traveling exhibition in Victoria and NSW, Australia
Michell Endowment, inaugural exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1976 – Some Recent Art of the Ballarat Region, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Representation in permanent Public Collections
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne
Works included in the Shell Collection, the Michelle Endowment Collection and the Prints and Drawing Collection
The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Works included in the Painting Collection and the Prints and Drawing Collection
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong
Auckland Art Gallery / Toi O Tamaki, Auckland
Victoria University, Melbourne
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong
Art Bank, Sydney
Representation in Private Collections
Notable private collections:
Steve Cox (artist, Australia)
Michael Jäger (artist, Germany)
David Palliser (artist) and Liz Shugg (Australia)
Dr Alastair Phillips (author, and Reader: international film history, UK)
Jenny Port (gallerist, Australia)
Contact
www.peterwestwood-art.com
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/peterwestwood
peter.westwood@rmit.edu.au
