Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Bibliography

Books and catalogues
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 AustralianPainting, 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”, 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”, 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”, 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”, 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”, 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”, Age, 27 May 1999, p. 20
Lancashire, Rebecca; “Beginning Again with a Small Manet”, 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”, 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”, 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”, Weekend Australian, October 2001
Rooney, Robert; “John Wolseley, Constance Zikos, Peter Churcher”, Australian, 13 September 1996
Safe, Georgina; “Downsized Jeff still in the picture”, 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”, Australian, 15 March 2002, p.4
Strickland, Katrina; “Magic of pictures inspires Churcher’s leap of faith”, Australian, 17 April 1998, p.14

Awards

Collections

Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Collection of William S. Lieberman, USA
Collection of Kerry Stokes, WA
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Parliament House, Canberra
Parliament House, Victoria
Prahran City Council VIC
Private Collections

Commissions

Selected Reviews

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

Special Notes

Photograph courtesy of Simon Lamb