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| Peter Churcher, The master at work. $28.00 | | | (Contemporary artist series, Creative Cowboy Films).
| | | Contact Australian Galleries to purchase the film. | | | | | 1964 | Born 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 | | 2005 | Philip 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
| | 2001 | Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
| | 2000 | 'Recent Paintings', Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1999 | Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
| | 1998 | Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
| | 1996 | Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne | | 1994 | Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
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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
| | 2003 | Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | ‘X Melbourne’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra and Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney
| | 2002 | Archibald 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
| | 1998 | Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
| | 1997 | Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
| | 1996 | Archibald 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
| | 1993 | Moét 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
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BibliographyBooks 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 | | 2004 | Australia 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 | | 1991 | Prahran City Council Acquisitive Award, Melbourne |
CollectionsAustralian 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| 2005 | Professor 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 | | 2001 | Premier Jeff Kennett, Parliament House, Melbourne | | 2000 | Sir Gustav Nossal, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra |
Selected ReviewsNew Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005
Special Notes Photograph courtesy of Simon Lamb
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