CHRISTOPHER PEASE

Pease is represented in numerous public collections around Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia and Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art along with other public, and corporate collections as well as significant private collections both here and in the USA.

Christopher Pease’s visual language is at once deeply embedded in 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 and the Australian landscape are referenced throughout Pease’s vocabulary of visual metaphor. Geometric house plans superimposed over scenes of traditional Indigenous ways of living and imagery of native flora are metamorphosed into repetitive motifs and regimented decorative pattern in his most recent work, through which he reveals the contradictions in contemporary notions of living and the problematic nature of urban spread along the western coast of Australia.