Peter Summers

Pink Cliffs 
Five Walls 
To Feb 16 
Gallery 4 
suite 4, level 1 / 119 Hopkins St Footscray 

Open Wed-Sat 12-5pm 

‘Summers’ recent trip to Heathcote’s Pink Cliffs in Central Victoria was the inspiration for this exhibition. The paintings highlight his dedication to rendering the landscape with exquisite evocation. His subtle and arresting works on canvas demonstrate a complex, intriguing expression of Minimalism. Pink Cliffs is so named because of the pinkish hued rock formations left behind from sluice mining during the gold rush era. The rock, which is actually powdery clay, changes colour depending on the time. 

Peter Summers

Pink Cliffs is Summers’ follow up to his successful solo show Difficult Pleasure at Tacit Galleries Collingwood, late last year. In 2017 he was included in the very successful exhibition, Chromatopia, on the history of colour by chemist and writer David Coles. In 2012, he co-curated and participated in the exhibition Un:sighted at Fortyfive downstairs gallery, before relocating to Shanghai (2012-2016). In 2011, he was selected for the Yering station sculpture prize and awarded the Ella Donald Memorial scholarship. He has exhibited on a regular basis at Five Walls since 2015.’ Five Walls website

Installation

Peter Summers

‘Difficult Pleasure’
TACIT Galleries
Until October 21

Peter Summers

Peter Summers installation shot at TACIT Galleries

‘The landscape is a starting point, it underpins the initial preliminary stages of painting, but it is not about rendering a place. It is about capturing the essence of the connection with the landscape and how it reflects something of my temperament.’ Peter Summers

Peter Summers

Peter Summers, 2012. Oil on canvas, approx 1676 x 1219 mm

Peter Summers, 2012. Oil on canvas, 1676 x 1219 mm

Melbourne artist, Peter Summers, is about to relocate to Shanghai, China. He was a participant in 'Unsighted', 2012, a group show at fortyfive downstairs. Summer's paintings are exquisitely constructed via a repeated layering and removal of thinly applied washes of oil paint. Summers has been painting and exhibiting for 15 years, and through a process of reduction creates atmospheric minimalist paintings.

Summers completed a BA from RMIT University in the mid-1990s. He was shortlisted for the Bret Whitely Scholarship in 2001, 2002. In 1994 he received the Ella Donald Service Memorial Scholarship. His blog can be viewed here.