BRIEF RESUMÉ
Born 1944 in Melbourne. Studied art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.in the early 1960's. Peter has been the recipient of a number of awards including two 'Artist-in Residences' (Darwin Community College and Exeter University, U.K.); and has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and Europe where he is represented in various public and private collections. He has broad tertiary teaching experience, has served on course/curriculum committees, degree panels, and judging panels for sculpture projects, landscape architecture, etc.
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Geelong Regional Art Gallery
Bendigo Regional Art Gallery
Northern Territory University
St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
The Museum of Victoria
State Government of Victoria
Victoria Racing Club, Flemington
Cities of Yarra and Knox, Victoria
Victorian Arts Centre Trust
Australian War Graves, France and ,
Papua New Guinea
MY WAY OF WORKING
Fundamentally humanist, my work is about being alive, about what makes me me and you you; about the individual and the universal, what connects us within the diversity of our modern worlds.
My work is a wondering about the wonderful that we can all be, and are. Alive with life, the desire of and gift is love. A humane art, of expressive psychological realism. I attempt to make probing, perceptive, yet ennobling expressions, representations of people - works of dignity that speak to others with, and of, compassion, strength and generosity.
Working directly with people present, and from photographs, I model in clay in an open spontaneous manner trying to see what is within and catch it, even fleeting away. With rich lively surfaces and layers of form, I cast them in bronze, warm with patina's waxed hues.
My public commissions are usually site specific, harmonious and contributory to the scale and materials of their given settings. Environmental elements such as plinths, bases, plaques, text, natural and artificial light and shadow so important to the success of outdoor sculptural work, are carefully integrated.
Peter Corlett January 2008
