Peter Barker

Spanning the genres of Landscape, Still life and Portraiture. Peter’s paintings take you on a deeper experience, a porthole into a different reality. One of the tenants to Peters process is his quest for continued knowledge.

This is an ongoing process which has so far taken him from long term study at an art atelier in Florence, Italy. Here he underwent a rigorous technical and art historical background before continuing to train and assist a world renowned master artist in Norway.

Exhibitions & Awards

2022

Semi Finalist Doug Moran portrait award, Victoria
West Australian Portrait Artist Exhibition - PS Art Space, Fremantle

2021

"Down South" curated group exhibition - Voyager Estate, Margaret River, WA

2020

"A View from here" solo exhibition - Juniper Galleries, Darlington. WA
West Australian Portrait group exhibition - PSAS, Packenham street, Fremantle, WA
Power, Place and Desire curated group exhibition - Margaret River Gallery, Margaret River, WA

2019

Perth Royal Show Award - Salon
Group Exhibition - Annual Exhibition, Juniper Gallery, W.A
Finalist $50,000 Kilgour Art Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery, N.S.W
Finalist Rockingham Art Award, Rockingham, WA

2018

Joint Exhibition - Donnelly River Verandah residency, Earlywork Gallery, Fremantle
Joint Exhibition - The Female Spirit, Gallery Lumino, Subiaco
Joint Exhibition - Skin Deep (WA Portrait Artists), Moores Building, Fremantle
Joint Exhibition - Small works (landscape works), Earlywork Gallery, Fremantle
Joint Exhibition - Fenians 89 days freedom festival, Kidogo Art House, Fremantle

2017

Black Swan Prize for Portraiture - Salon des Refuses
Joint Exhibition - "Sunlite Sences". Kidogo Arthouse. Fremantle, Perth

2016

Finalist $50,000 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture
Finalist Mandorla Art award

2015

Solo Exhibition -' The Precipice', Harvison Gallery, Perth
Black Swan Prize for Portraiture - Salon des Refuses

2014

Solo Exhibition -' Old Masters - New visions', Harvison Gallery, Perth
Finalist Perth "Black Swan" Heritage Prize
Finalist "Mandorla" biennial art award

2012

Solo Exhibition -' Landscapes of Malta', Kempinski Hotel, Malta
Solo Exhibition -' People,Places Gozo', Art-e-gallery, Malta.
Finalist Perth "Black Swan" Portraiture Prize
Finalist A.M.E Bale traveling scholarship
Finalist Midwest Award

2011

Solo Exhibition - Victoria Park Art Centre, Western Australia

2009 - 2010

Angel Art Academy exhibition - Florence, Italy

2008

Angel Art Academy exhibition - Florence, Italy
Winner of the City of Melville Art Award (Oil Painting Category)
Ongoing Exhibition - Heathcote Museum Complex- Perth, Western Australia

2007

Joint exhibition - WA Club - Perth, Western Australia
Solo exhibition - Free-range Gallery - Subiaco, Western Australia

Education

2010

Studio assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway: www.nerdruminstitute.com

2008 - 2010

Classical art - Florence, Italy, under tutelage of Michael John Angel www.angelartschool.com
The Angel Academy is a classical art atelier - a structured program of drawing and painting based on methods and approaches from the early renaissance to 19th century French academy.