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Peter Atkins

The Complete Projects 2006 – 2016

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Community Polychrome Project Collected plastic lids on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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!!! Above: Remnant Threads 2006 Below: Common Threads Residency at the Australian Tapestry Workshop Collaboration with Tsar Carpets, Melbourne 33cm x 33cm each Each carpet 3 meters x 3 meters

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!! Readymade Abstraction 2006 Acrylic on tarpaulin 183cm x 183cm each

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Preformed 2007 Acrylic on tarpaulin 183cm x 183cm each

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Welcome to L.A. – Readymade Abstraction 2008 Acrylic on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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Studies 2009 Acrylic on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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Disney Color Project 2009/10 Acrylic on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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Melway Project 2009/10 Acrylic on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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Hume Highway Project 2010 Acrylic on tarpaulin 120cm x 120cm each

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Pie Chart Project 2011 Acrylic on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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Monopoly Project 2011 Acrylic on tarpaulin 75cm x 75cm each

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Physical Settings 2011 Painting and Drawing 2011 Acrylic on tarpaulin Acrylic on tarpaulin 120cm x 120cm each 120cm x 120cm each

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In Transit 2012 Acrylic on plywood 33cm x 33cm each

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Related Forms 2013 Acrylic on canvas 60cm x 60cm each

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Music Project (white) 2013 (deconstructed album covers from the exhibition ‘Jazz’) 30cm x 30cm each album.

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Music Project (black) 2013 (deconstructed album covers from the exhibition ‘Jazz’) 30cm x 30cm each album.

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JAZZ 2013 Acrylic on tarpaulin 215cm x 205cm each

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Station to Station 2013/14 (Melbourne Now - National Gallery of Victoria) Printed cotton 150cm x 300cm each flag.

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ACME Automotive Paint Chart Project 2014 (A deconstructed series of car and truck paint color charts c1965/66 from Detroit) 21cm x 27cm x 5 sheets

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Silence 2014 Enamel on canvas 60cm x 60cm each

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Polaroid Prototypes 2011-2014 Auto Acrylic on MDF Dimensions variable

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Polaroid Project 2014 Auto Acrylic on MDF Approx. 21 x 17 x 17 cm each box

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Network 2015 Acrylic on canvas 50cm x 60cm each

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Obsolete Logos 2015 Acrylic on tarpaulin 120cm x 120cm each

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Rosalie’s Alphabet 2014/15 Discarded plastic letters on found envelopes 33cm x 33cm each

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Obsolete Logos c1970s 2015/16 Acrylic, pencil and pen on found ledger paper

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EP Project 2015 -16

(deconstructed 7” record covers) 18cm x 18cm each

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Medicine 2012 -15 Auto acrylic on wood on mirror Dimensions variable

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Under Construction – Chaos and Order 2015/16 SCAPE8 New Intimacies - Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand’s premier Biennale of art in public space.

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‘Atkins does not intend to exaggerate the importance of an object, sign or symbol, instead he sets out to invest it with a new or altered meaning, in the process divesting (although never denying) it of its heritage. Like David Lynch’s cinematic vignettes of the small and banal, or Raymond Carvers vivid narrations of everyday feelings and occurrences. Atkins illuminates the extraordinary in the ordinary, quietly reassessing the familiar in order to endow it with the capacity for fresh understanding and renewed significance.’ Felicity Fenner

Peter Atkins is a leading Australian contemporary artist and an important representative of Australian art in the International arena. Over the past twenty five years he has exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, England, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Mexico. He has been described as 'a cultural nomad' by the former director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Daniel Thomas, 'an obsessive psychological wanderer' by curator Simeon Kronenberg, 'a visual anthropologist' by the director of Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, Alex Baker, 'a visual terrorist' by Spanish Curator and arts writer Paco Barragan and 'a hyper-caffeinated bowerbird' by arts writer Ashley Crawford. Atkins’ practice centers around the appropriation and re-interpretation of readymade abstract forms that he documents within the urban environment. This collected material becomes the direct reference source for his work, providing tangible evidence to the viewer of his relationship and experience within the landscape. Particular interest is paid to the cultural associations of forms that have the capacity to trigger within the viewer, memory, nostalgia or a shared history of past experiences. Recent projects including 'Disney Color Project', 'Hume Highway Project', ‘Station to Station’ and ‘Polaroid Project’ evoke within the viewer our collective, cultural recall. Over the past decade he has used the term 'readymade abstraction' to describe his practice. A term he coined to define the space between non-objective abstraction and representation. Peter states that ‘My work could be described as an amalgamation of Modernisms attention to process and materials, Pop Arts re-contextualization of mundane mass cultural objects, Minimalisms desire to achieve simplicity through the elimination of all non essential features and Post Modernisms re-examination, appropriation and deconstruction of all that has gone before. These amorphous boundaries are a calculated attempt to blur the distinction between High Art, Low Art and popular culture.’

In In 1985, while still a student at the National Art School in Sydney, he was awarded the Helen Lempriere Traveling

Art Scholarship. Over the next decade, he traveled and worked extensively throughout South East Asia, India, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Europe, as well as North, Central and South America. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and international residencies including the Cite International des Arts in Paris, The British School in Rome and Green Park in New Delhi. He has also been awarded Australia Council Studio residencies in Barcelona (1998) and Los Angeles (2008). In 2001 he undertook a 12 week residency along with his partner and son at the Arthur Boyd property 'Bundanon' on the Shoalhaven river in N.S.W.. In 1994 he was sole Australian representative and gold medal recipient at the VIII Indian Triennale, for his work titled World Journal presented by the Lalit Kala Academy in New Delhi, India. In 1996-97 his work was included in the international touring exhibition titled Systems End - Contemporary Art in Australia curated by William Wright and Takeshi Kanazawa traveling to Osaka, Tokyo, Seoul and Kaoshiung, Taiwan. In 1999 his work was featured (along with Mike Parr and Guan Wei) in Five Continents and One City in Mexico City, curated by Gao Minglu, and in 1999 and 2003 he exhibited at the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid. Nationally, Peter Atkins has held over 40 solo exhibitions with his survey exhibition titled Big Paintings 1990-2003 touring regional galleries during 2003-04. He has been represented in over fifty significant group exhibitions, including The Australian Perspecta, A.G.N.S.W; The Loti and Victor Smorgan Gift of Australian Contemporary Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art and Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, both at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and more recently in the prestigious Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2009/2010. His work is represented in the collections of every major Australian State Gallery including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney as well as prominent Institutional, Corporate and Private collections both Nationally and Internationally.

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Peter Atkins www.peteratkins.com.au e: peteratkins@iinet.net.au Studied at the National Art School, Sydney. Lives in Melbourne, Australia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Obsolete Logos Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2015 Polaroid Project (in collaboration with Alan Constable), Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia 2014 Silence Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2014 Polaroid Project (in collaboration with Alan Constable), Arts Project, Melbourne 2014 JAZZ Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery, Wangaratta 2013 JAZZ Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2013 Related Forms Bett Gallery, Hobart 2012 Monopoly Project Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2011 Physical Settings Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney 2011 Painting and Drawing Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2010 Hume Highway Project Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne Art Fair 2009 Welcome to L.A./Readymade Abstraction Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2009 Studies Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2008 Pre-formed Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney 2007 Readymade Abstraction Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2006 Precious Things Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2005 The Connected World Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2005 Down My Street Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2005 Paintings 2000–2005 Bett Gallery, Hobart 2004 The World Around Me Sherman Galleries, Sydney 2003 Big Paintings1990–2003 Survey Exhibition 2003 Paperform Tolarno Galleries Melbourne 2002 lo-tech Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 2002 Simple Pleasures Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2001 Handmade Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2001 Materiality Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney 2000 Accumulation Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 2000 Paintings and Works on Paper Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney 2000 Live From Brunswick Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 1999 Polyrhythm Tolarno Galleries Melbourne 1998 Soft Edge Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1998 Recent Work Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide 1997 Urban Artefacts Ipswich Regional Gallery, Queensland 1996 Recent Work Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 1996 Recent Work Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1995 Recent Work Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 1995 Recent Work Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney 1995 Recent Work APA Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1994–95 World Journal VIII Triennale–India 1994, curator Annette Larkin, Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi, awarded Gold Medal; Australian Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia; Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra; Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney; New England Regional Art Museum, NSW; Ipswich Regional Gallery, Queensland; Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria; University Gallery, Launceston 1993 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 1991 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 1991 Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney 1989 Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney 1988 Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney 1987 Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2016 Art Basel Hong Kong Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 2015 The Armoury, New York City, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery,Philadelphia 2015 SCAPE8 Biennale, Christchurch, New Zealand 2014 Melbourne Now National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2011 Contemporary Encounters The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2010 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melb 2009 The Shilo Project. The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne 2008 Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, VIC 2006 Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter, Newcastle Region Art Gallery 2003 ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid 2002 ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid 2003 MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2003 Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection. National Gallery of Australia 2002 The Art of Collecting, Newcastle Art Regional Gallery Newcastle 2001 A Century of Collecting 1901-2001 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University of Sydney 2000 Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art. National Gallery of Australia 1999 Five Continents and One City. Mexico City Gallery, Mexico (with Mike Parr and Guan Wei) 1997 Systems End: Contemporary Art in Australia. Touring Japan, Osaka, Tokyo, Seoul, Taiwan 1995 The Loti and Victor Smorgon gift of Australian Contemporary art. MCA, Sydney 1993-94 World Journal, VIII Indian Triennale New Delhi. (Gold Medal winner) 1990,92,95,96 Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibitions 1989 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney

COLLECTIONS !Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain Chartwell Collection, Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton, New Zealand National Gallery of Australia, Canberra!Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW New England Regional Art Museum, NSW Monash University Gallery, Melbourne QUT Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Queensland Shell Company of Australia Allen, Allen & Hemsley, Sydney Corbett and Yueji Lyon Collection, Melbourne Pat Corrigan Collection NSW Peter Fay Collection NSW Derwent Collection, Tasmania Esk Collection, Tasmania Artbank and numerous private collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2011 New Work Grant Awarded by the Australia Council 2009 Melway Project Commission for The City of Melbourne 2008 Signature of ‘M’ Award, Melbourne 2008 Los Angeles Studio Residency,awarded by the Australia Council 2006 Artist in residence, Princes Hill Primary School, Melbourne 2003 Commission for the Crown Promenade Hotel foyer, Melbourne 2002 New work grant, awarded by the Australia Council 2002 Artist in residence, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW 2001 Artist in residence, Bundanon, NSW 2001 Artist in residence, Mt Scopus College, Melbourne 1998 Barcelona Studio Residency, awarded by the Australia Council 1994 Awarded Gold Medal, VIII Triennale–India 1994, New Delhi 1992 Project Grant, awarded by the Australia Council 1991 Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, NSW 1989 Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1987 Artist in residence, Dr Denise Hickey Studio, Cité International des Arts, Paris 1987 Artist in residence, The British School, Rome, August–September 1986 Dyason Bequest, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1985 New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship 1984 Maitland Student Art Prize, NSW!