Peter Tilley
Selected Biography
- 2015-18 PhD, Newcastle University, NSW.
- 2008-10 Master of Philosophy (Fine Art), Newcastle University, NSW.
- 1978-79 Certificate of Art, Newcastle School of Art & Design, NSW.
- 1975-77 Stitched Sculpture, Private Tutor.
- 1973-75 Ceramics (p/t) – Newcastle School of Art & Design, NSW.
- 1946 Born in Wikamatown, VIC
Solo Exhibitions
- 2020 The Shadow Speaks, MAY SPACE, Sydney
- 2019 Recent Acquisitions, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
- 2019 The Tangible and the Shadow, MAY SPACE, Sydney
- 2018 Seeing the Shadow, MAY SPACE, Sydney.
- 2018 Seeing the Shadow, The University Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
- 2016 A Dirty Business (with Andy Devine), Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
- 2015 Second self, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
- 2014-16 Black Harvest (with Andy Devine), Touring exhibition, Moree Plains Gallery; Cessnock Regional Art Gallery; Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie; Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre; Manly Art Gallery & Museum
- 2014 Figure in the landscape, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2013 Black Harvest (with Andy Devine), Cooks Hill Galleries, NSW
- 2012 On the Nature of Things, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2011 Gallery East, WA, A Passage Through Time, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2010 Postgraduate Exhibition, The University Gallery, Newcastle NSW
- 2010 Something Other Than Itself, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2009 Midway Along the Path of Life, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Gallery East, WA
- 2009 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
- 2007 Place and Circumstance, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Gallery East, WA
- 2006 Journey Past and Present, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2005 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
- 2005 The Passage of Time, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2004 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
- 2003 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
- 2003 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
- 2002 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
- 2001 Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle NSW
- 2000-1 Parallels & Crossovers: An Artistic Relationship, Peter & Lezlie Tilley
- 1991-2000, Touring Show curated by Anthony Bond, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW; Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW; Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW; New England Region Art Museum, NSW; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW; Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 1999 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
- 1997 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
- 1996 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
- 1994 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
- 1992 Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney.
- 1990 Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery. Access Gallery, Sydney.
- 1989 Access Gallery, Sydney.
- 1988 Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne.
- 1987 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle.
- 1965 Gannel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Vic.
- 1964 Butchers Ext, Sydney.
Selected Mixed Exhibitions
- 2020 (scheduled) Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
- 2020 (Finalist) Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival, NSW
- 2019 (Finalist) Georges River Art Prize, Hurstville Museum and Gallery, NSW
- 2019 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney.
- 2019 Winter Solstice Sculpture Exhibition ‘Response’, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, NSW
- 2019 Shelf Life, MAY SPACE, Sydney
- 2018 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
- 2018 Concerning Peace, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Memoranda, University of Newcastle
- 2018 Gallery, NSW MUGGED!, MAY SPACE, Sydney
- 2017 Ceramic Revisions II, MAY SPACE, Sydney
- 2017 The Phantom Show, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW; Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
- 2017 MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN, MAY SPACE, Sydney
- 2016 “Yeah. Cheers. Thanks a lot”, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Highlights from the MRAG Collection,
- 2016 Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
- 2016 Highlights from the MRAG Collection, Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
- 2016 Sculpture 2016: Bronze, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2015 30 Years | 30 Artists | 30 Works, Brenda May Gallery,
- 2015 Sydney Untitled Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2015 Signature, The University Gallery, The University of Newcastle
- 2015 Sculpture by the Sea Decade Club, Macquarie Group, Sydney
- 2015 Visible Storage, Artbank, Sydney
- 2015 Sculpture 2015: Sculpture Park, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2014 Elephant in the Room, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2014 Sculpture in the Vineyards, NSW
- 2014 (Finalist) Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture
- 2014 Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, VIC Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney NSW
- 2014 Hidden, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney Sculpture, Newcastle University, NSW Landscape, Brenda
- 2014 May Gallery, Sydney Sculpture
- 2014 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2013 Sculpture in the Vineyards, Hunter Valley, NSW
- 2013 Sculpture Inside, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney Mighty Small, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2012 Sculpture in the Vineyards, Hunter Valley, NSW
- 2012 Reflective Dialogues, The University of Newcastle Gallery In The Mirror,
- 2012 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2012 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA
- 2012 Major Artists, Major Works, Brenda
- 2012 May Gallery, Sydney Sculpture
- 2012 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2011 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
- 2011 Preparation for the Final Journey, Newcastle Art Space
- 2011 Body Language, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA
- 2011 Kooindah Acquisitive Sculpture Prize Exhibition, NSW Rookwood Sculpture Walk, NSW
- 2011 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2010 Green, Brenda May Gallery,
- 2010 Sydney Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
- 2010 Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollombi, NSW
- 2010 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA
- 2010 Sculpture Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2009 Sculpture by the Sea + Sculpture Inside, Sydney
- 2009 40 x 40 x 40, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne VIC
- 2009 Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA
- 2009 The Flower Show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2008 Sculpture by the Sea + Sculpture Inside, Sydney
- 2008 Narrative, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Memento Mori,
- 2008 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2008 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA
- 2008 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
- 2007 Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA Sculpture by the Sea + Sculpture Inside, Sydney
- 2006 Sculpture by the Sea + Sculpture Inside, Sydney
- 2006 Applied Arts – Form + Function, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney SMALL, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
- 2006 The Figure In Question, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
- 2005 Sculpture by the Sea + Sculpture Inside, Sydney Sculpture
- 2005 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Couples/Collaborators + Other Partnerships, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2004 Sculpture by the Sea + Sculpture Inside, Sydney Sculpture 2004, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
- 2004 The Frank Saxby Bequest Invitation Art Acquisitions Prize, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree
- 2004 Chalk and Cheese, Newcastle Art Space, NSW Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Bld, VIC
- 2003 Dangerous Toys, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Kinetica, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
- 2001 Well Connected: Dobell + Company, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
- 2000 Sculpture 2000, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Sculpture, 2 artists,
- 2000 Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
- 2000 A Contemporary Perspective -An Exploration of Medium, Port Stephens Community Arts Centre;
- 2000 Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre; Maitland City Art Gallery
- 2000 NSWElements of Sculpture, 2 artists, Tamworth Region
- 2000 Gallery Melbourne Art Fair
- 2000 Royal Exhibition Building
- 1998 Steel Works – A Regeneration, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery The Rose, Lake Macquarie City Art
- 1998 Gallery, NSW Stretched, 5 artists, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
- 1997 Newcastle National Ceramic Award, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
- 1996 Artistic Relationship, Maitland City Art Gallery
- 1994 Survey of Men Artists of the Hunter Region, Maitland City Art
- 1994 Gallery The First Eleven, Faculty of Art & Design Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW
- 1993 New Art Eight, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney
- 1992 Access to Adelaide, 7 Sculptors – BMG Fine Art, Adelaide SA
- 1992 Stanthorpe Heritage Arts Festival, QLD
- 1992 Objective Subjects – Subjective Objects, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
- 1992 ACAF•3 Sculpture Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Building, VIC
- 1991 3 Artists, Recent Works, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
- 1990-8 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhib. Building, VIC
- 1990 The Artistic Relationship, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
- 1990 Shifting Ground, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
- 1990 Sydney Myer Australia Day Ceramics Award, Shepparton Gallery
- 1988 Sculpture Now, Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW
- 1986 Fletcher Jones Invitational, Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
- 1986 Hunter Valley Sculptors, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Awards/Prizes/Commissions
- 2019 Winner, Major Acquisitive Prize, Sculpture on the Farm
- 2018 Winner, RUPIO Prize, Sculpture on the Farm
- 2016 Acquisitive (w/ Andy Divine), Newcastle Club Foundation Painting Prize
- 2015 Winner, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens Sculpture Prize
- 2014 Winner, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens Sculpture Prize
- 2012 Winner, Friends of the University 2012 Acquisitive Prize for the University Collection, Newcastle University
- 2011 Winner, In Situ 11 Sculpture Prize, Mosman
- 2010 Sculpture in the Vineyards, Noyce Brothers Wines Sculpture Award
- 2000 Acquisitive, Hunter Valley Ceramic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery
- 1998 Newcastle AH & I Association Special Prize
- 1997 Major Public Sculpture Commission – Maitland Mercury for the City of Maitland
- 1993 Major Sculpture Commission, Gilbert & Tobin, Sydney Newcastle AH & I Association Sculpture Prize Miniature Prize, Shoal Bay Art Prize, NSW
- Hunter Valley Ceramic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery 1992 Pottery Prize, Festival of Port Stephens Art Exhibition Acquisitive, Tomago Aluminium Sculpture Prize Newcastle AH & I Association Sculpture Prize Maitland Art Prize, Maitland City Art Gallery
- Acquisitive, Ceramic Prize, Stanthorpe Heritage Arts Festival Acquisitive, Costain Ceramic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery
- 1979 Von Bertouch Galleries Prize
Published/Reproduced – Selected
- 2019 “The Sculpture on the Farm event drew 2000 visitors”, Dungog Chronicle, 29 October
- 2018 Hynes, Victoria. “Out of the Shadows”, World Sculpture News, Vol 24, No 2, Spring, p.28-31
- Stowell, Jill. “Brilliant Tilley”, Newcastle Herald, 31 Mar, p.34
- 2016 Barnes, John. “Newcastle Club Painting Prize 2016: The winner of the city’s newest major art prize”, Newcastle Herald, 18 Nov
- 2015 Stowell, Jill. “Two minds on one dusty concern”, Newcastle Herald, 24 Jan, p.34
- 2014 Cormack, Lucy. “Clock’s ticking as sculpture show returns even bigger and better”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Oct, p.4-5
- 2013 “Surf, Sand and Vision”, Atelier, February, p.102 “Sculpture 2013”, SMH – Spectrum, 19-20 January, p.21 2012 Fortescue E. “Bearing fruit”, Daily Telegraph, 27 Oct, p.7
- Edwards, A. “Sculptor doubles appeal”, Newcastle Herald, 25/10, p18 Hopcroft, Helen. “Peter Tilley and the Garden of Death”, Art Monthly, October, p.17-9
- Stowell, J. “Hidden meanings”, Newcastle Herald, May19, p.18 “Sculpture by the Sea (SxS)”, Sculpture, vol.31, no.4, p.25
- 2011 Hill, Michael and John McDonald. Sculpture by the Sea, the First Fifteen Years 1997-2011, Media 21 Publishing, p.119
- “Sculpture in the Vineyards”, Hunter Valley Breathe #31, p.44
- 2010 Stowell Jill. “Choice Viewing”, Newcastle Herald, Mar 20, p.11 2009 Stowell, J. “Brilliant Darkness”, Newcastle Herald, Jun 20, p11 Lyons Melissa. “Sculptor onto a shore thing”, Newcastle Herald, March 29
- 2008 Catalogue, 50 Years of Muswellbrook Shire Collection
- 1958-2008, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, p107-109
- 2007 Stowell, J. “Exploring new terrain”, Newcastle Herald, 22/9, p30 NSW Scoop Traveller, #2, Jul-Dec, p.75 C+A, issue 5, March, p.10
- Wasley, Alice. “The Planner”, SMH, 3-4 Nov, p.6
- 2004 TV Feature, “Sculpture 2004”, Today show, TCN9, Jan 28
- 2003 Catalogue. Hidden Treasures, The Maitland Collection, Maitland Regional Gallery, p39
- “The Week’s Best”, Metro, SMH, Sept 12-18, p.2 Human Rights Defender, vol. 12, issue 3, p.15
- 2002 “Exhibitions, critic’s picks”, Metro, SMH, June 28-July 4. p.27
- 2001 SMH, Metro, Sept 21-27
- Stowell, Jill. “Visible feast”, Newcastle Herald, Aug 18, p.15
- 2000 Catalogue, Contemporary Sculpture by Leslie Oliver and Peter Tilley, Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, NSW Stowell, Jill. “Locals in the frame”, Newcastle Herald, Aug 26 Stowell Jill. “Weekend Feature”, Newcastle Herald, July 8
- Smee, Sebastian. SMH, Metro, Sept 24-30 Watson, Bronwyn. SMH, Sept 21
- Ryan, M. “Harmonious marriage”, Newcastle Herald, Nov 11, p26 1999 Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 21 Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 – 30 Sept
- 1998 Thinking Business, Uni of Newcastle Publication, Issue No.11 Page, Donna. “Exhibition views steelworks closure through artists’ eyes”, Newcastle Herald, March 30, p4
- 1995 Thorpe, DW. Who’s Who of Australian Visual Artists
- 1994 McCulloch, A & S. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin
- 1993 Drury, Nevill. New Art Eight, Craftsman House
- Drury, Nevill. New Sculpture, Craftsman House
- 1992 “New Art”, Interiors Magazine, Vol.6 No.1, Feb/Mar, p17
- Kidd, C. “Sculpture Features at Access”, State of the Art, Mar, p13 Hill, Peter. “Sculpture at the Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair”, Asian Art News, Nov/Dec p62
- 1990 Thompson, I. “Iconic Assemblages”, Craft Arts, #18, Mar/Jun Chesterfield-Evans, Jan. “Artemis”, Newcastle Gallery Society Magazine, Vol.20 No.3, July/Sept
- Shifting Ground, Newcastle Artists, AGNSW, Aug 15-19 Germaine, M. Artists & Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House
Represented
- Arts ACT; Artbank; Manly Art Gallery & Museum, NSW; Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW; Warrnambool Art
- Gallery,VIC; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW; Maitland City Art Gallery, NSW;
- Stanthorpe Art Gallery, QLD; Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW; University of Newcastle Collection;
- Cottesloe Council, Perth, WA; Clayton Utz, Sydney; Hunter Valley Private Hospital; Hunter Urban Division of General Practitioners; Tomago Aluminium Collection, NSW; Newcastle Club, NSW; private collections, Denmark, Australia.
