PETER WESTWOOD

biography:

Peter Westwood is an artist and academic. His creative works focus on ideas and feeling of being within unsettled and uncertain times. Peter has worked in various media however his practice is primarily formed through a long-standing preoccupation and interest in painting.

His work embodies and comments on perpetual change as a way of articulating our experience of life. Throughout his life he has approached his work via equal measures of working consciously and unconsciously to reflect the peculiarities of life as an uncertain, fleeting, and ambiguous experience. His artworks reveal ideas of unending transition, provoking the viewer to reflect upon self, flux, and permanence.

Peter considers a painting an immanent experience, as much an event as it is a ‘thing’. In his paintings, through the process of painting-ness coalescing with imagery, his works appear as curious and unusual moments. Generally, Peter’s work embodies ‘asomething’ that may only ever be alluded to visually.

Peter has been included in group, and individual exhibitions in public and commercial galleries in Australia and overseas. He has alsocurated exhibition projects for the past 30 years in Australia, and periodically overseas, and is represented by Blockprojects Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, and Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery in Munich, Germany.