PETER ATKINS

Obsolete logos Martin Browne Contemporary 20 August–13 September 2015 Sydney

Press Release

Peter Atkins | Obsolete Sunburst Logos c1970s
2015, Acrylic on used tarpaulin
120 x 120 cm

Martin Browne Contemporary is delighted to present Obsolete Logos a new exhibition of paintings by Peter Atkins. This new series of work sees the white painted redundant, obsolete logos from the early 1970s appear to float over the faded yellow canvas tarpaulin providing a juxtaposition between new and old, the forgotten and the remembered. The artist was particularly drawn to these out-of-date logos because, ‘I see these logos as emotional triggers…they have the capacity to evoke memory, nostalgia and a shared history of past experience…they are beautiful forgotten things, gentle reminder of who we were and where we have come from – they are signposts from the past leading us into the future’.

About the Artist

Peter Atkins was born in Murrurundi, New South Wales in 1963. He studied at the Newcastle Art School, NSW (1983/84) and National Art School, Sydney (1985). Peter has had an extensive solo and group exhibition career with exhibitions including Quirky: From the Collection, Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW (2010); Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2009); Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, VIC (2008); Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (2007). Collections include the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Peter currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

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Martin Browne Contemporary is dedicated to showing the finest in Australian and International modern and contemporary works of art. The gallery combines a program of new work by its exhibiting artists with curated exhibitions of selected works from the secondary market.

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