Christopher Pease (Minang/Wardandi/Bibbulmun)
born 1969, Western Australia, lives
Dunsborough, Western Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hegemony and Empire, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022
Lost in Translation, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2019
Minang Boodjar, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2015
Chris Pease, 2015, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
2013
New Works, Christopher Pease, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
2012
Welcome to Country, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2009
Christopher Pease, New Works – Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2008
Christopher Pease – New Paintings, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2005
Christopher Pease, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2003
Christopher Pease, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2002
Christopher Pease, Ben Pushman, Sandra Hill,
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
2000
Christopher Pease, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
CURATED / AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2025
65,000 YEARS: A Short History of Australian Art, curated by Judith Ryan and Marcia Langton,
Potter Museum, Melbourne University (upcoming)
2024
24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns, National Art School and various locations, Sydney
2023
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, National
Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
HOME, curated by Susan McCulloch, EVERYWHEN Art at Whistlewood
Shimmer, curated by Amanda Bell and Lee Kinsella,
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
giyawarra-nanha gulbalanha / Disturbing the Peace, curated by Andrea Briggs, Murray Art Museum Albury, VIC
King’s School Art Prize, King’s School, Sydney
XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, curated by Marita
Smith, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2021
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, National
Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2020
Belonging: Stories of Australian Art, National
Gallery of Australia, ACT
2019
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait
Islander Art Award, MAGNT, NT
2019
Sydney Contemporary with Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney
2019
Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, (curated selection for VIP Lounge)
2018
Wild: Flora and Fauna in Australian Art, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery,
NSW
Indigenous Australia:
Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, me Collectors Room of the Olbricht Foundation, Berlin
2017
A New World, curated by Richard Ennis, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
2017
Everyone has a history – Part one: Plain Speak, AGWA, Perth
2016
Darkness on the Edge of Town, Artbank, Sydney
2015
Post-hybrid: Reimagining the Australian Self, John
Curtin Gallery, WA
2014
Family Matters, Holmes a Court Gallery, Heytesbury, WA
2012
Australian Landscape: Present in the Now, Michael Reid Gallery Berlin
Murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary Art, Berlin
2011
Noongar Country 2011, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
2010
17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
Nyoongar Dreaming, City of Joondalup Gallery
2009
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, AGWA, Perth
Culture Warriors, Katzen Centre, Washington DC
2007
First Indigenous Triennial, Culture Warriors, National Gallery of Australia
Nyoongar Native Title, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
Contemporary Nyoongar Painting, Goddard
de Fiddes Gallery
2006
Melbourne Art Fair, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery
Right Here, Right Now, National Gallery of Australia
Identity and Change, AGWA, Perth
2005
22nd National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, MAGNT
2004
Melbourne Art Fair, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery
Works from the Collection, John Curtin Art Gallery
2003
Group show with Ben Pushman and Sandra Hill, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery
South West Central, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2002
19th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art
Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Ben Pushman, Sandra Hill, Chris Pease, Goddard de Fiddes, Perth
2001
Mine Own Executioner, Mundaring Art Centre
Wide Open, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
COMMISSIONS & AWARDS
2024
CORPORATE COMMISSION: Djert Kala Koorliny (Birds Coming Home), 42 flying kylies, rug design, Perth CBD
2023
COMMISSION: Beeliar Boodja Bidi, 2.4x11m, Boola Katitjin, Murdoch University, Perth
2021
COMMISSION: Targets, Elevate Rooftop Terrace, Art Gallery of Western
Australia
2021
AWARDED SELECTIVE COMMISSION: Doondalup, City of Joondalup, WA
2019
SHORTLISTED: Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of NT
2018
COMMISSION: major wall commission over two levels, Barangaroo Towers, Sydney
2009
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Western Australia Indigenous Art Award, AGWA
2006
SELECTED: Royal Netherlands Embassy Aboriginal Print Portfolio Project
2005
SHORTLISTED: 22nd National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin
2004
COMMISSION: Major foyer commission, Perth Convention Centre, WA
2002
WINNER: PAINTING PRIZE – 19th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2024
Gellatly, Kelly, ‘Hegemony and Empire’, ex. cat.
Biennale of Sydney, ‘Ten Thousand Suns, 24th Biennale of Sydney’, ex. cat, pp. 255
2023
Drummond, Sarah, 'Moments of Reckoning: Breaksea Island Western Australia', Great Ocean Quarterly: Art, Ideas and the Sea, Volume 2:4, pp. 50-57
2021
‘History in Artwork’, Joondalup Times, May 27
Wynne, Emma, ABC Radio, Perth, ‘WA’s state art gallery reopens with new rooftop’, Nov 6
Browning, Daniel, ABC Radio, The Arts Show, ‘Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over
colonial vistas’, Nov 6
Trinh, Katrina, ‘AGWA relaunches with a celebration of Western Australia art’, Art Guide Australia,
Nov 9
2019
Griffith, Chris, ‘Indigenous Art Finds its Voice’, The
Australian, Aug 10
Smith, Marita, ‘Minang Boodjar’, ex. cat, issuu publishing through Gallerysmith
Kirk, Emma, ‘Dunsborough
artist Christopher Pease nominated for prestigious art award’, Margaret River
Mail, July 19
Wright, Jamie, ‘Recovering a
Stolen Past’, seesaw online arts mag, August
Gatt, Ainslie, ‘Nyoongar
identity and the Art of Christopher Pease’, PhD thesis, University of WA
2018
McDonald, John, ‘Art: Christopher Pease’, Sydney Morning Herald, November 16
Haebich, Hannah, ‘Dancing in Shadows: Histories of Nyungar Performance’ (cover)
Downes, Briony, ‘Christopher Pease: Minang Boodjar preview’, Art Guide, Nov issue
2015
Reid, Michael, ‘Chris Pease: 2015’, issuu publishing
through Michael Reid Gallery
McKnight, Lia, ‘Post-hybrid: reimagining the Australian self’, John Curtin Gallery ex. cat.
2013
Alternative Law Journal (cover), Vol 40(2) – Welcome to Country
2012
Smith, Marita, Welcome to Country, ex. cat, issuu publishing, Gallerysmith
2010
Elliot, David, ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, ex. cat.
2009
Allen, Tess, Christopher Pease biography, Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)
2008
McCulloch, Susan, McCulloch Childs, Emily, ‘McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art, the complete guide’, new ed., Fitzroy, Vic,
McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books, pgs. 279, 282.
2008
Jorgensen, Darren, ‘Artlink review, solo exhibition, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery’, June
2007
Bullen, Clotilde, ‘07: Culture Warriors’, ex. cat.
Creighton, Chad, ‘Noongar Native Title: Works from the Curtin University of Technology Art
Collection’, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, ex. cat.
2003
Croft, Brenda, ‘South West Central: Indigenous Art from South Western Australia 1833-2002’, AGWA, W.A, ex.cat.
2001
Croft, Brenda, ‘Indigenous art : Art Gallery of Western
Australia’, Perth: Art Gallery of Western Australia.
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2004,
2005, 2009, 2019)
National Museum of Australia, Canberra (2018)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2006,
2007, 2009, 2019)
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2001,
2007, 2009, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2007, 2008)
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Wesfarmers Collection, Perth
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Holmes a Court Collection, WA
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
Australian Capital Equity, Perth
Perth Convention Centre, WA
BHP Billiton Art Collection, Melbourne
John Curtin University, Perth
Murdoch University, Perth (2006, 2023)
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
City of Perth, WA
Artbank, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art,
Utrecht, Netherlands
