Tolarno Galleries - Melbourne Australia

Peter Graham

In the late 1980s Peter Graham's studio at the Victorian College of the Arts was a cascading jumble of strange sculptural forms and piles of paper scrawled with bizarre, alien figures. His notes on tracking a jaguar through the Victorian bush were scattered over many surfaces. Sticks and bones were strewn throughout the space and miniscule robotic figures welded from rusted metal skulked in dark corners.

Graham's work rapidly evolved into ferocious drawings. The intensity of the built up surface reduced charcoal and pencil to nubs as the artist trekked through fantastical landscapes.

Today Graham continues to act as a conduit: bringing a curious, haunting reality into our banal world.

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let it loose 2008 uproot 2008 untitled 2007 restless farewell 2008 borne aloft 2007 shadows and ash launch 2007 uprising 2008 how to describe the shining upon the dreaded loam from the underturned stone, the triumphant toad 2004 awake; the mask of the moon 2004 when my desert blooms 2005 hunting ground 2005 pluck 2004 revival 2005

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