ARTISTS | Christopher Pease

Christopher Pease is a Minang/Wardandi/Bibbulmun man from South Western Australia, whose visual language is at once deeply embedded within the western history of figurative oil painting and traditional Indigenous storytelling. Western notions of home and land ownership and the consequent loss of Aboriginal culture are referenced throughout Pease’s vocabulary of visual metaphor. His paintings often comprise references to western culture superimposed over scenes of traditional Indigenous ways of living and interacting with nature. His recent works include cross-sections of native flora which have metamorphosed into repetitive motifs and regimented decorative pattern such as those used in contemporary wallpaper designs, through which he reveals the problematic relationship between contemporary notions of living and the loss of Aboriginal traditional land and culture.

Pease is represented in numerous public collections around Australia including: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; along with other public, and corporate collections as well as significant private collections both here and in the USA.

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Christopher Pease (Minang / Nyoongar)

born 1969, Western Australia, lives Dunsborough, Western Australia

EDUCATION

1998                  Graduate Diploma in Art & Design, Perth

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018                  Minang Boodjar, Gallerysmith, Melbourne

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

2000                  Christopher Pease, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

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                  17^th 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                  22^nd 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                  19^th 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

2018                  Barangaroo Towers, Sydney

2006                  Royal Netherlands Embassy Aboriginal Project

2004                  Perth Convention Centre

AWARDS

2009                  Highly commended, Western Australia Indigenous Art Award, AGWA

2002                  National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, Prize for Painting

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Parliament House Collection, Canberra, Wesfarmers Collection, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Holmes a Court Collection, Kerry Stokes Collection, Australian Capital Equity, Perth Convention Centre, BHP Billiton Art Collection, John Curtin University, Perth, Murdoch University, Perth, University of Queensland Art Museum, City of Perth, Perth Convention Centre, Artbank, Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrect, Netherlands, Private collections Australia, USA and Europe

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