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Peter Churcher

SELECTED WORKS

 Peter Churcher
 DVD
Peter Churcher, The master at work.     $28.00
 (Contemporary artist series, Creative Cowboy Films).
 Contact Australian Galleries to purchase the film.
  
1964Born 28 February, Brisbane, Queensland
2006 Moved to Barcelona, Spain 

Solo Exhibitions

2011'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2010'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008'21 Months in Barcelona', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2007'Paintings from Barcelona', Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2006‘The Hunt, Sacrifices and Other Rituals’ - Melbourne Art Fair, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2005Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2004'Recent Paintings', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
2003'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2002'Recent works includingn paintings from the Persian Gulf', Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2001Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
2000'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Sydney
1999Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
1998Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
1996Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
1994Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

2011'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
'large exhibition of small works', Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Realisme '10', Mokum Galleries, Amsterdam, Netherlands
'Summer Exhibition', Mokum Galleries, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009'Salon de Refusés', S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2008'Wish You Were Here', Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
'La Collectiva', Pintura, Circulo deSant Lluc, Barcelona, Spain
2007'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Kilgour Figurative Painting Prize', Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2005‘Australian Contemporary Art’, De Récourt Art in association with Australian Galleries at The Gallery in Cork Street, London, UK
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004‘Group Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Portraits and Other Works’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Species’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2003Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘X Melbourne’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra and Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
2002Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
‘Selected Works from the Stock Room’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2001‘Australian Painting and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2000‘Selected Works’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1999‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1998Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995‘Lineage’, Linden, St. Kilda Arts Centre
1994‘Fresh from the Studio’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1993Moét et Chandon Touring Exhibition
‘The Changing Face of Melbourne 1841-1993’, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
1992‘Australian Modernism: The Complexity and the Diversity’, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art,
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 3, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1990‘Artworks II: Thirty Emerging Melbourne Artists’, South Melbourne Town Hall
1999_Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney‘On the Road – The Car in 1999_Australian Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Melbourne

Bibliography

Books and catalogues
"Betrachtugen eines Kriegmaters", Henri, Das Magazin, das Fehlt, Austria, Ausgabe 1, June 2003 24-26 August 1996, p.12
Blake, E; "in my own words", Sunday Herald Magazine, 24 April 2005, p.19
Bone, D; "Artist to paint human face of war campaign", The Age, 31 January 2002
Business Review Weekly, 8 May 1992
Baddely, Claire; Peter Churcher, official artist: the war against terrorism, catalogue, Australian War Memorial, 2002
Churcher, Peter; Peter Churcher exhibition folio, Australian Galleries, Sydney and Peter Churcher, June 2003
Diggins, L., Ley, C., & Ullin, S.; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Malakoff Fine Art Press, Melbourne 1997
Diggins, L., Regan, A., & Ullin, S.; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Malakoff Fine Art Press, Melbourne 1996
Gellatly, Kelly; Woman, sex and the car, exhibition catalogue for ‘On the road – The car in Australian Art’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2000, p.37-39
Gott, Ted; Peter Churcher exhibition folio, Australian Galleries, Sydney and Peter Churcher, September 2000
Gray, Anne; Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 2002, p.423
Grishin, Sascha; Peter Churcher and the humanist tradition of painting, exhibition folio, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 2004
Melbourne Theatre Company Celebrates Four Decades in the Limelight, Melbourne Theatre Company Season Brochure 1993
Rayment, Helen; Australian Modernism: The Complexity and the Diversity, Malakoff Fine Art Press, Melbourne 1992, pp 8 & 50

Periodicals
“Betrachtungen eines Kriegmaters”, Henri, Das Magazin, das Fehlt, Austria, Ausgabe 1, June 2003
24-26 August 1996, p.12
Baddeley, Claire; “Unique record of war against terrorism”, Wartime, Issue 21, 2002, p.31
Beck, Chris; “In pursuit of self-discovery”, The Age, 17 July 2004, Review p.7
Blake, Elissa; “In my own words”, Sunday Herald Magazine, 24 April 2005, p.19
Bone, Duncan; “Artist to paint human face of war campaign”, The Age, 31 January 2002
Business Review Weekly, 8 May 1992, p. 95
Cassidy, Frank; “9-11 features in New Display”, Canberra Times, 23 March 2003, p.8
Crafti, Stephen; “Out of the shadows”, The Age, 24 October 2001
Craswell, Penny; “Art at the front line: Hot light and fear in Afghanistan”, State of the Arts, December 2002, p.84-85
Faulkner, Jane; “In the face of fighting and fatigue”, The Age, 24 June 2002
Fitzgerald, Michael; “The long reveille”, Time Magazine, 28 April 2003, p.58-59
Grishin, Sascha; “A grab bag of very good Melbourne artists”, Canberra Times, 4 March 2003
Grishin, Sascha; “Image of war with no visible enemy”, Canberra Times, 14 July 2002
Guiness, Daphne; “A brush with war, missing the gore”, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 2004, p.17
Karvelas, Patricia; “Picture of confusion for war artists”, The Australian, 21 May 2003, p.2
Kidd, Courtney; “Chill and charm”, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 2000, p.22
King Murdoch, Anna; “Drawing on Emotion and Skill”, The Age, 27 May 1999, p. 20
Lancashire, Rebecca; “Beginning Again with a Small Manet”, The Age, 4 September 1996, p. 7
Makin, Jeff; “Picture perfection”, Herald Sun, 17 May 1999, p.105
Martin, Lauren; “An artist’s eye for war’s dark grandeur”, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 2002, p.5
Martin-Chew, Louise; “What you see is what you get”, The Australian, 26 April 2002, p.13
Mattox, Elise; “Mirroring the Masters”, Malvern-Prahran Leader, 14 August 1996, p. 9
McCulloch, Susan; “Parental Portraiture Poses Lofty Challenge”, The Weekend Australian 
McLean, Sandra; “Conflicting art”, Courier Mail, 20 April 2002
McLean, Sandra; “Doing it his own way”, Courier Mail, 1998, p.18
Meacham, Steve; “Daubs of war put human face on a Nation’s fighters”, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March 2002, p.14
Meacham, Steve; “Painting conflict in the line of fire”, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2003, p.18
Reid, Michael; “Quality bloodline show”, The Weekend Australian, October 2001
Rooney, Robert; “John Wolseley, Constance Zikos, Peter Churcher”, The Australian, 13 September 1996
Safe, Georgina; “Downsized Jeff still in the picture”, The Australian, 28 February 2001, p.8
Schwartz, Larry; “Painted soldiers”, Age, 5 March 2005, Metro p.2-3
Sexton, Jennifer; “War etched images on artist’s mind”, The Australian, 15 March 2002, p.4
Strickland, Katrina; “Magic of pictures inspires Churcher’s leap of faith”, The Australian, 17 April 1998, p.14

Awards


2008 1st Prize, 'El Premio de Grabados', Collectiva 2008, Circulo de Sant Lluc, barcelona, Spain 
2006 Finalist, Kilgour Prize for Figurative Painting, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 
2004Australia Council studio, Barcelona
2003 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2000 Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
 1st Prize, King’s School Art Prize, Sydney
1998 Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, national Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1997 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1996 Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 Candidate in King’s School Art Prize, Sydney
1993 Finalist, Moet et Chandon Australian Art Fellowship, Australia 
1991Prahran City Council Acquisitive Award, Melbourne

Collections

Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Kelly Stokes Collection, Perth
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Mornington, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, Melbourne
Prahran City Council, Melbourne
Private Collections
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
William S. Lieberman Collection, USA

Commissions

2005Professor John Hay Vice Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
2004 Governor General Peter Hollingworth, Parliament House, Canberra
2002 Official War artist for Australia, Persian Gulf and Afghanistan
2002 Colonel Rowen Tink Australian War Memorial, Canberra
2001Premier Jeff Kennett, Parliament House, Melbourne
2000 Sir Gustav Nossal, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Selected Reviews

New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005

Special Notes


Photograph courtesy of Simon Lamb