peter sharp
For over thirty five years, Peter Sharp’s research has consistently been about the visual exploration of how nature works and fits together, through the lens of abstraction.
His work includes drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
“I’m not interested in a literal translation but a poetic moment that speaks of things in nature. I am interested in the conversation between Western and Indigenous painting.” (2014)
There is a historical tradition of landscape in Australian art that deals mostly with western ways of seeing and representing place.
My research is about finding new, alternative ways of seeing, using an abstract language that includes non-western ways of visualising place. The idea of the western view is prefaced on vanishing point perspective and the layering of foreground, mid ground and background recessive space.
By drawing in a disruptive way in the Australian landscape using accident, original forms are found that are not mimetic but still translate what is seen and felt.
All of this is part of ongoing project that explores how far one can push a mimetic reference (landscape) to the point of visual collapse and still relay a visual experience that is uniquely Australian.
PAINTINGS
DRAWINGS
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