Damien Minton Gallery

Peter Gardiner started 2009 by winning the acquisitive Muswellbrook Open Art Prize.

Peter received $15,000 first prize for the painting, Letters of St Paul I, which was judged Mr Ron Ramsey, Director of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

Peter has also been awarded a three month 2009 studio residency in Barcelona, Spain by the Australia Council.

This new suite of paintings is inspired by the rich visual language found in the First Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians.

Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

Gardiner is interested in placing the allegorical nature of the text into the current economic/political context.

Date of birth 27.4.1965

Education

1983-1990Bachelor of Arts (visual arts)
High Distinction in painting University of Newcastle

Selected Exhibitions

2009First letter of St Paul to the Corinthians, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2008The Kooragang Series, solo exhibition at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2007Dobell Drawing Prize, finalist, AGNSW 2007Solo exhibition, Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2007Mosman Art Prize, finalist 2006Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle, finalist 2006Mosman Art Prize, finalist 2006Solo exhibition, debris fields, at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2006Winner, Maitland Art Prize 20052005: The Year In Art, invitation group exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2005Solo exhibition, new work at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern 2005Mosman Art Prize, finalist 2003solo exhibition, as the population grows, at the Damien Minton Gallery, Newcastle 2003Mosman Art Prize, finalist 200312 artists from Newcastle in Sydney, the Depot Gallery, Waterloo presented by the damien minton gallery 2002Ten artists from Newcastle in Sydney
The Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney presented by the damien minton gallery, Newcastle 2002Solo exhibition of new work, damien minton gallery, Newcastle 1999Legge Gallery, Sydney 1998Arcania
Canberra Contemporary Art Space 1997new work
Tin Sheds, University of Sydney 1996Arcane Reverie 3
Rocket Art, Newcastle 1995Arcane Reverie 2
Airspace, Canberra 1995Arcane Reverie
Rocket Art, Newcastle

Awards

2007Finalist, Dobell Drawing Prize, AGNSW 2006Finalist, The Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle 2006Winner, Maitland Acquisitive Art Prize 1998art studio scholarship, Artspace, Woolloomooloo NSW Ministry of the Arts 1990Sulman Prize finalist, AGNSW and touring show 1989Sulman Prize finalist, AGNSW and touring show