Peter O’Doherty
Peter O'Doherty's paintings are tonal assemblages of oblique geometric detail imbued with dense shadow and vivid Australian light.
Emigrating with his family from New Zealand to Australia in the late 1960s, Peter O’Doherty is a self-taught painter. There has been a concentration on urban and suburban themes in his work – fibro and brick houses, blocks of flats, high rise facades, front yards, porches, and garages along with chairs, aeroplanes, trams and landscapes.
O’Doherty has been hung in numerous art prizes including the Sulman and the Salon Des Refuses. He has won the Paddington Art Prize for landscape, the Commendation Award at the Mosman Art Prize and the Alan Gamble Memorial Prize for the built environment.
Commencing in 2014 and running over the next two years Peter has a collaborative touring regional gallery exhibition ‘Moving House’ with his wife Susan O’Doherty, combining her assemblages depicting various rooms of the house and his canvases of external suburban house facades.
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Image: The Sphinx and Ari Burnu from Russel’s Top, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 137 x 152cm
Courtesy the artist
In this preview of the Your Friend the Enemy documentary, meet some of the artists involved as they first encounter the surrounds of Gallipoli.
Including your local newsagent, you can also purchase the Your Friend the Enemy Special Edition at select Art Gallery shops listed here.
In commemoration of the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign this year, Your Friend the Enemy curated by John McDonald, is opening at S.H. Ervin Gallery.
The Your Friend the Enemy trip wasn’t nearly finished after the artists flew out from Turkey in 2014. The project had only just begun.
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Deirdre Bean • Elisabeth Cummings • Steve Lopes • Guy Maestri • Euan Macleod • Idris Murphy • Michael Nock • Peter O’Doherty • Susan...
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Cummings works quietly and consistently. Her work, while influenced by landscape,her process is led by intuition.
Steve Lopes is a painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape works.
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Michael Nock is a practicing artist primarily focusing on oil painting, his works are imbued with the deep emotion that is etched into the landscape.
Susan O’Doherty is a mixed media artist whose work ranges from large abstract paintings through to small mixed media assemblages as well as acrylic portraits.
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