Solo Exhibitions
1976 Twelfth Night Gallery
1981 Metro Arts, Brisbane
1984 ‘The Canoes are our Gardens’, Metro Arts, Brisbane
1989 Metro Arts, Brisbane
1990 Metro Arts, Brisbane
Young Artists Gallery, Brisbane
1991 Cintra Gallery, Brisbane
1992 Cintra Gallery, Brisbane
1993 King Street Gallery, Sydney
Judith Behan Gallery, Canberra
1999 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2002 Judith Behan Gallery, Canberra
2003, 06, 09 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
2012, 15, 18 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
1987 Maritime Art Award
1989 Gold Coast City Art Prize
1991 ‘Artists Eye II’, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Kooralbyn Art Prize (awarded)
Maritime Art Award
1992 Wynne Prize, AGNSW
1993 Wynne Prize, AGNSW
1998 Guymer Bailey Architects
1999 Pine Rivers Sculpture Award (awarded)
2000 Queensland Newspapers Ken Cowley Art Award (awarded)
2002 Rotary Art Prize (awarded)
2002 Landscape as a Metaphor - Regional Galleries Tour
2003 Central Queensland Art Purchase, Rockhampton Regional Gallery
2003 Rotary Art Prize (awarded)
2004 Glass House Mountain Images, Queensland Art Gallery
2005 Wilson Architects Exhibition, Mayne Hall, Queensland University
2009 Twelve degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallery & University Art Collections in Queensland
2012 Art for Parkinsons
2014-6 Tattersalls Landscape Prize finalist
Studies and Travels
1974-76 Diploma Fine Art, (Painting), College of Art, Brisbane
1977 Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, (Painting), R.M.I.T., Melbourne
Travelling Grant – Visual Arts Board
1978-81 2nd Mate on Sailing Ship ‘Eye of the Wind’ for Operation Drake Circumnavigation
1982-83 Expedition Artist on Tami Canoe Project, Papua New Guinea
1984-85 Co-pilot for Endeavour Balloon Project, Trans Australia Flight altitude, duration, distance record for super pressure balloons
1993 Lord Howe Island Voyage
1994-96 Private, 2½ year circumnavigation in 36ft ketch, ‘Skerryvore’.
2001 & 02 Lord Howe Island
2004 Norfolk Island
2008 Ross Sea– Aurora Expeditions - Zodiac Driver – Macquarie Island, Balleny Islands, Mawson Hut – Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica; New Zealand
2010 New Zealand Subantarctic Islands and Macquarie Island
2013 Sea of Okhotsk - Russian Far East – Heritage Expeditions - expedition artist and zodiac driver
2014 Wrangel Island - Russian Far East – Heritage Expeditions - expedition artist and zodiac driver
2017 Northern Sea Route - Russian Arctic – Heritage Expeditions – expedition artist and zodiac driver
2018 Ross Sea – Heritage Expeditions – Expedition Artist
2019 Falklands, South Georgia, Antarctic Peninsular - Poseidon Expeditions - expedition artist and zodiac driver
2019 Franz Joseph Land, North Pole – Poseidon Expeditions - Expedition Artist and zodiac driver
Collections Parliament House, ACT
AMP Insurance
Kingfisher Bay Resort
Hackett & Co. Solicitors
Broadley Rees Solicitors
Anderson & Bone Solicitors
Seymour Group Solicitors
Daikio
Humphreys, Reynolds, Perkins Town Planners
Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron
Kooralbyn Art Prize Collection
Rockhampton Regional Gallery
St William's Catholic Church (Crucifix Sculpture Commission)
HTM Wilson Stockbrokers
Pine Rivers Regional gallery
Otago University NZ
Peter Anderson is a mid-career, full time Australian artist, who lives and works in his home town of Brisbane, on the mid east coast of Australia. He attended two art colleges in his early education, expressing a great interest in the family traditions of the ‘drawn from life’ image.
This was followed by around the world sailing voyages, including ethnographic and scientific expeditions, where his expedition art recording style has become his subject genre.
Through painting, he attempts to show the grandeur of the untouched, natural world, from the eye height of the sailor - explorer. There, the appreciation of the subject matter before him, together with creating the circumstances of getting there and being there, are equally important. His expedition experience, together with a passion for representing extremes in the natural world make his artworks unique. Few artists are recording the subjects he seeks out.
He has always been very interested in the history of exploration beyond the uninhabited edge.
His paintings have become an uncompromising view into how the planet is dealing with climate change, which is noticeably evident in his choice of high latitude and polar subjects.
In recent years, he has felt the increasing responsibility to ‘visualise the science’ in recording that change. “Only with repeated visits to the same locations, do you grasp the speed of that change, it hits you like a hammer. I feel I must use whatever facility I have to be a conduit for this message. ”