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Graeme Peebles

SELECTED WORKS

 Graeme Peebles
1955Born Melbourne, Australia
1973-1975Printmaking, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1976-1977Printmaking in Italy and England
1977-1981Part time lecturer in printmaking RMIT
1980Study tour of Italy, Austria and France
1983-1986Full time lecturer in printmaking RMIT
1984Study tour of Europe
1986Lived and worked for six months in Florence Italy
1988Guest lecturer in printmaking, Monash University, Melbourne
1991Travelled to London for exhibition at Victoria House
1996Full time artist, Point Lonsdale, Victoria

Solo Exhibitions

2007'Jellyfish', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Recent prints’, Townsville Regional Art Gallery
2005‘Out of the Shadows’, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Victoria; Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Victoria; Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Victoria; Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Townsville Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
2003‘The Incompleat Angler’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2001Grahame Gallery, Brisbane
1998Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1995Grahame Gallery, Brisbane
1994Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1993Solander Gallery, Canberra
1990Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1989Grahame Gallery, Brisbane
1988Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1987Pallazo Di Pellegrini, Commune Di Barberino, Val'Delsa, Italy
1986Die Nieuve Gallerie, Vienna
1984Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Works Gallery, Geelong
Gallery Huntly, Canberra
1983Gallery Huntly, Canberra
1982Gallery Huntly, Canberra
Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne
Works Gallery, Geelong
Wollongong Regional Art Gallery, NSW
1980Crossley Gallery, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2008'Wish you were here’, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah South, NSW
2007‘50 - a print exchange portfolio’, Geelong Gallery
2006'Summer Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005'Contemporary Works on Paper', Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
‘Notes from the Natural World’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2004‘Species’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002Kochi International Print Triennial, Japan
2001‘Landscape and environment’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti, Finland
2000The Macau International Exhibition of Prints, Macau
1999Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway
1998‘Mezzotints’, Detroit, Michigan USA
‘A decade of Australian printmaking’, Seoul, Korea
1997Polish International Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland
‘Contemporary mezzotints’, Connecticut Graphic Arts Centre, USA
‘Contemporary mezzotints’, Chicago USA
1993‘6 x 6: Six Australian printmakers’, Bangkok, Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1992‘Survey 13, Three regional artists’, Geelong Art Gallery
1991‘Art out of Australia’, Graeme Peebles and Anthony Prior, Victoria House, London
1986Group Exhibition, Curwen Gallery, London
1984British International Print Biennale, Bradford England
1983‘Melbourne Printmakers’, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Australian Prints’, USA and Canada (organised by Print Council of Australia)
1982British International Print Biennale, Bradford England
‘Melbourne Printmakers’, Bayreuth, Darmstadt and Nurnberg, Germany; Oxford, England
1981‘Contemporary Australian Printmakers’, USA and Canada (organised by Print Council of Australia)
West German International Print Biennale, Freschen, Germany
‘Australian prints’, Scotland
1980‘Five Australian printmakers’, Singapore
‘Australian prints 1980’ [World Tour]
1978‘Western Pacific Print Biennale’, Australia

Bibliography

Periodicals

Backhouse, Megan; ‘Art around the galleries’, The Age, July 21 2007, p. 10
Cole Addams; Bridget, The Age, 29 July 1980
Craig, Gordon; “Out of the shadows: the mezzotints of Graeme Peebles”, MA thesis, Qeensland University of Technology, 2005
Cross, Elizabeth; “Three Unique Attributes of a Virtuoso”, The Age, 8 June 1990
Cross, Elizabeth; “Conversation with Graeme Peebles”, Imprint, Winter 1984
Grishin, Sasha; “Images Emerge from Gloom”, Canberra Times, 23 May 1980
Hannan, Grant; “Understated and Liberating Images”, Herald, August 1984
Heathcote, Christopher; The Age, 10 August 1994
Johnson, Frances; “Fishy business”, The Age, July 6, 2007, p. 15
King Murdoch, Anna; “Plates filled with elemental power”, The Age, 2 September 1998
Makin, Jeffrey; Herald Sun, 14 September 1998
MacLeod, Di; “From still life to seascape landscape”, Imprint Vol. 29, Summer 1994
Millar, Ronald; “Peebles: A Light in the Dark”, Herald Sun, 30 May 1990
Millar, Ronald; “Peebles’ Mezzotints Full Of Dark Secrets”, Herald, 11 September 1987
Nelson, Robert; “Rock around the clock”, The Age, 24 September 1994
Books
Grishin, Sasha; Contemporary Australian Printmaking – An Interpretive History, Craftsman House, 1994
McCulloch, Alan & McCulloch, Susan; Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, 1994
Zimmer, Jenny; Recent Australian Prints, RMIT publication, June 1984

Collections

Academic Institutions: Adelaide College of the Arts, Adelaide; RMIT, Melbourne; Footscray College, Melbourne; CAE, Melbourne; University of Melbourne; Monash University, Melbourne; La Trobe University, Melbourne; Deakin University, Geelong; Griffith University, Qld; Queensland University; University of Southern Queensland
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Artbank
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Banyule City Council, Melbourne
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Brisbane Town Hall, Brisbane
Cannon Collection, Los Angeles
Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria
City of Whitehorse, Melbourne
Commune Di Barberino, Italy
Department of Foreign Affairs, Melbourne
Federal Courts, Melbourne and Hobart
Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
High Court, Canberra
LaTrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
Museo Di Arte Moderna, Fondazione Pagani, Castellanza, Italy
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Nillumbuk City Council, Melbourne
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Penleigh and Essendon Grammar Schools
Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Queensland Law Society, Brisbane
Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, NSW
Warnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Woollongong City Gallery, NSW