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Peter Sharp
Instagram: @petersharpartist
Website: https://www.petersharpartist.com/
Artwork Title: Eddy
Artwork Medium: Oil and acrylic on linen board
Year Created: 2024
Artwork Description:
The works I make may appear abstract, but it all starts with drawings made in the landscape and then the forms are filtered through various media to disrupt and force a visual transformation, and this creates questions about how we see ourselves in nature. This particular painting is about the movement of ocean water.
Artist Bio:
Peter Sharp’s research for over thirty years has been about the visual exploration of how nature works and fits together, through the lens of abstraction.
Sharp has held solo exhibitions since 1989 in Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Melbourne and internationally. His work has been included in group exhibitions since 1987 throughout Australia and internationally in Paris, Chang Mai, Beijing and London.
In 2012, Sharp held his first survey at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, titled ‘Peter Sharp: Will to Form’, which featured works over a 15-year period. This survey also culminated in the publication ‘Peter Sharp: Will to Form’.
In 2021 to 2023 a 30-year survey of ‘Plein-air’ painting titled ‘Accidental Tourist’ toured to four venues with over 10000 people visiting.
In 2024 Sharp won the painting award in the Hornsby Art prize.
In 2025 Sharp was artist in residence at the prestigious Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA.
