Description
“Whales” original oil painting by Peter Anderson.
Measures 66 x 56cm.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, titled and dated by the artist verso.
Brisbane artist Peter Anderson’s epic sea voyages are reflected in this oil on canvas painting by him.
Anderson has had many solo exhibitions at Philip Bacon Galleries. His most recent exhibition at Philip Bacon was November – December 2024.
He has been a multiple finalist in major prizes such as the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize in Brisbane. Anderson is represented in a number of institutional collections including the Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra; Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland; and the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Anderson is also an experienced sailor who has completed around the world sailing voyages, including ethnographic and scientific expeditions, where his expedition art recording style has become his subject genre. From 1978-81, Anderson was Second Mate on sailing ship Eye of the Wind for Operation Drake Circumnavigation. In 1982-83 he was an expedition artist on Tami Canoe Project in Papua New Guinea, and in 1984-85 was co-pilot for the Endeavour Balloon Project, Trans Australia Flight. Later in 1994-96 Anderson undertook a private 2 ½ year circumnavigation in a 36ft ketch named Skerryvore.
Through painting, Anderson attempts to show the grandeur of the untouched, natural world, from the eye height of the sailor-explorer.
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