Peter Cooley
Exhibitions
Winter/Spring Salon 2023
Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/07/2023 to 30/09/2023
The 'Winter/Spring Salon' will be a rotating and updating group exhibition throughout Winter 2023.... Read More >
Peter Cooley
Scott Livesey Galleries, 25/05/2022 to 18/06/2022
The new terracottas reference prehistory forms and decoration. These works have taken a previous iteration of a similar aesthetic on a Mount Warning theme, transposed to the Blue Mountains and evolving the work to a more directly expressive form in the making, to push at the limits around balance and tension. The more direct approach to decoration is simpatico to the terracotta surface, providing a natural integrity.Drawing on a range of influences, including memories of living in Paris as a young artist, and to the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay, viewing the African commercial galleries with beaded and woven textiles, and more recently ... Read More >
Autumn Selection
Scott Livesey Galleries, 14/04/2021 to 08/05/2021
A rotating selection of artworks. ... Read More >
Peter Cooley 2019
Scott Livesey Galleries, 24/08/2019 to 14/09/2019
These new works are made using historical Chinese and central Asian textile influences mixed with local idiom to represent how things have not changed drastically since historical Silk Road trading. The work is based in modernism, expressionism, medieval manuscripts and Persian miniatures and the emotional response that colour can achieve. ... Read More >
Journey - Melbourne to Leura - 2003 to 2017
Scott Livesey Galleries, 18/03/2017 to 13/04/2017
Peter Cooley has been widely known since the 1980s as a painter, but over the last decade has been committed to his ceramic practice. “These reflections of Australia come from living in the Blue Mountains, using the local resource for research material. In substitute for not having access to the Louvre or British Museum for a resource, I’m trying to blend this uniqueness of environment into new forms of sculpture & decoration on earth i.e. "ceramic“.The Blue Mountains environment coupled with that of the distinct imagery the artist recalls growing up in Tweed Heads form the basis of inspiration for these current cer... Read More >
Peter Cooley
Bactrian Camel after Chinese Landscape (Ode to Melotti)
2019
earthenware
68.00 x 57.00 x 31.00 cm
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