ARTISTS | Christopher Pease
Christopher Pease is a Minang / Nyoongar 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.

Exhibitions:
Minang Boodjar | Christopher Pease
Winter Solstice 1 | a group exhibition
Welcome to Country | Christopher Pease
CV:
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 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
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
News:
MAJOR COMMISSION AWARDED TO CHRISTOPHER PEASE
Christopher Pease will unveil a major new artwork on the rooftop of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in December…