peter westwood

Master of Arts, Research, Monash University 1995.

Exhibition project; accompanying artist publication

Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne 1982

Graduate Diploma of Fine Art, RMIT University 1981

Folio and minor thesis. Thesis: Utopia, Constructivist theories: Alexandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Diploma of Fine Art, University of Ballarat 1976

Hard Times, (collaboration with writer Janet Drake), The Doll’s House, Melbourne

Similarities and differences, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne

Shape, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne

Things that have happened, Temple Studio, Melbourne

Fruit of the forest, School of Art, Monash University, Melbourne

Bandwagons, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Untitled, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

Assemblages, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne

Paintings, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne

Drawings, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne

Eye to "I" - the self in recent art, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat

Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery

The men’s gallery, (curator, Rebecca Mayo), The Doll’s House, Melbourne

Group Show 2, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne,

Group Show, Crossley and Scott Gallery, Melbourne

31st Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

Mediations, (curator, David Harley), Mass Gallery, Melbourne

The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Superstar, Billboard project funded by Arts Victoria, Melbourne

A Centre of Culture, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat

Decadence–10 years of 200 Gertrude Street, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

The ICI contemporary exhibition (travelled regional galleries in Victoria and NSW)

Adelaide Festival, The Living Arts Centre, Adelaide

Reconnaissance, Launceston Community Arts Centre, Launceston

New Work, Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne

Young Australians, travelled State and regional galleries in Australia and the United States; inaugural exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The Golden Shibboleth, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

Acquisitions for the Michell Collection, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne

The McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The new art: works from the Michell Endowment, Banyul (NGV), Melbourne

Still life still lives, Visual Arts Board travelling exhibition (travelled regional galleries in Victoria and NSW; inaugural exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery)

Michell Endowment, inaugural exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Moganshan Lu Arts Complex, Shanghai, PR China

Eye to "I" - the self in recent art, Wallace, G., Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat

Rhapsody 21C, ch. (essay) Artist Curator Academic, Zahra, L., University of Tasmania Press

The Shell Collection of Contemporary Australian Art, Lindsay, R., Shell Company of Australia Ltd

ICI Contemporary Exhibition, Lindsay, R., ICI Australia Ltd

The Golden Shibboleth, Lindsay, R., Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces

Young Australians, Lindsay, R., Budget Transport Collection

Still Life Still Lives, Radford, R., Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

Some Recent Art of the Ballarat Region, Radford, R., Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne: Shell Collection; Michelle Endowment; Prints and Drawing Collection

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat: Painting Collection; Prints and Drawing Collection

Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong

Auckland Art Gallery / Toi O Tamaki

Victoria University, Melbourne

Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong

Art Bank, Sydney

Private collections (Australia, U.K., France, Germany, New Zealand and China)

1995 – 2004, Director, Project Space and Spare Room Gallery – School of Art, RMIT University.

1992 – 1993, Curatorial assistant, Monash University Post Graduate Studios and Exhibition Space, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University.

2008 The World in Painting,

2007 An obvious problem,

Catalogue essay discussing the work of Jan Svenungsson (Sweden) and Katrin von Maltzahn (German) for the dual exhibition project A Place on Earth & Tracking and Jorge Luis Borges visited Melbourne for 10 days; School of Art Gallery. RMIT University, 2007 (http://www.projectspace.rmit.edu.au/)

2006 The brain hand thing,

Catalogue essay discussing the work of David Palliser for the exhibition Imagine…the creativity shaping our culture; Heidi Museum of Modern Art; curator Zara Stanhope. 2006 (http://www.davidpalliser.com/essay.html)

2005 One another’s otherworld,

Curatorial project installation and catalogue text, at the invitation of the French Cultural Centre, Melbourne. Featuring the works of Laetitia Bourget (France), Philippe Charles (France), Steve Cox, Sanné Mestrom, Dominic Redfern, Philip Samartzis, Ania Walwicz and Louiseann Zahra. Alliance Française de Melbourne (French Cultural Centre), 2005

2005 Various Presence: the human spaces in new technology, 

Curatorial project, installation and catalogue text, Shanghai International Science and Art Exposition, China, 2005. Featuring the works of Mark Burry, Martine Corompt, Ho Sui Kee, Nicole Jaquard, Lyndall Jones, Dominic Redfern, Philip Samartzis, Daniel Von Sturmer, Christian Bumbarra Thompson, Jason Wade, Yandell Walton. 2005

2004 Siblings,

Two curatorial projects with accompanying catalogue text titled Similarities and differences. Featuring the work of Loretta Quinn and Paul Quinn, Fiona Mc Monagle, and Tim McMonagle, Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, 2004

2004 Beyond horizons / Horisonttien takana

Curatorial project / installation of the work of environmental artist Markku Hakuri (Finland). Faculty Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004

2004 The Drawing Room,

Curatorial project and catalogue text, titled Insideout, accompanying aninstallation work by John Kelly. Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2004

2003 Benjamin Armstrong and Katherine Huang,

Curatorial project and exhibition text (text drawing / poster). Works by Benjamin Armstrong and Katherine Huang. Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, 2003

2002 Crossing: New Art from Australia,

Curatorial project with catalogue essay.  Works by Adam Bunny, Linda Erceg, Fiona Foley, Peter Graham, Katherine Huang, Dianne Jones, Tim McMonagle, Vera Möller, David Noonan and Simon Trevaks, and Christian Bumbarra Thompson. Lume Gallery, UIAH (University of Art and Design), Helsinki, Finland, 2002

2002 David Potter,

(first posthumous exhibition),

Curatorial project and catalogue essay, Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, 2002

2001 Berenice’s Hair / Bereniken Hiukset,

Exhibition catalogue with curator Leena Lohiniva. Rovaniemi Museum, Finland and Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2001

2000 Seen something more,

Curatorial project and catalogue essay.

Works by Tim McMonagle and David Palliser. Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2000

1999 rubik 10 – are you experienced,

Catalogue essay discussing the work of Tim McMonagle. The Physics Room, Christchurch New Zealand p. 16, 1999

1999 The trouble with Harry,

Curatorial project and catalogue essay. Works by Judith Duquemin, Diena Georgetti and Daniel Noonan. Project Space and Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, 1999