PETER WESTWOOD
Peter Westwood is an artist, curator and arts writer. Peter completed his undergraduate study, a Diploma of Fine Art at Federation University. His postgraduate studies include a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from RMIT University, a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Arts by Research from Monash University. He is currently completing his Doctoral studies. His PhD research topic is titled Agency and the idiom of Painting as a marker of change.
Peter’s painting reveals or describes perpetual change in order to capture or embody the passing nature of experience. His practice focuses on both the production and installation of painting as a method to present ideas relating to social experience. This focus often reflects on our social experience as forming within an unending passivity, shaped through continuous viewing and consumption.
Peter has been included in group, and individual exhibitions in public and commercial galleries in Australia and overseas. He has curated two to three annual exhibition projects for the past 20 years in Australia, and periodically overseas. Peter is a Senior Academic at RMIT University in Melbourne.
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