Title

Peter Pinson Gallery

Author

PINSON, Peter

Details

25 April 2010

Publication date

25 April 2010

Type

Biography

Country of context

Australia

Full text

 The Peter Pinson Gallery concentrates on artists who achieved national prominence during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. These artists are now recognized for their significant contribution to Australian art, and include Col Jordan, John Passmore, and Bert Flugelman.

As well as solo exhibitions of artists’ recent work, the Gallery periodically conducts Survey or Retrospective exhibitions, which trace the evolution of significant artists’ careers. Survey exhibitions include Alan Oldfield (2010), John Conway (2010) and a retrospective exhibition of the prints of Graham Kuo.

The gallery also represents the work of the Hermannsberg Potters. This group of aboriginal women ceramic artists make vessels which are glaze-painted with indigenous flora or flora or the local Northern Territory landscape, together with lids that include a sculptural representation.

The Gallery Director, Peter Pinson, is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales. Initially trained as a painter (winning the New South Wales Traveling Art Scholarship in 1968), he has written very extensively on Australian art, including hard-bound monographs on artists including Elwyn Lynn, Rodney Milgate, Emanuel Raft, Bert Flugelman, and a study of the late work of John Passmore. He initiated the first exhibition surveying Sydney abstract expressionism (at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in 1980), and curated the Elwyn Lynn retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has received an award within the Order of Australia.

[gallery blurb, Peter Pinson, 25 April 2010]