PETER WARD
BORN
Victoria, Australia 1950
EDUCATION
1969-1971 Swinburne CAE, Diploma of Art (Graphics)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Noshyacking, SHAC Galleries, Robertson, NSW
2018 Small Tunes, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Vic
2018 Interwoven, Firestation Print Studio & Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2017 Sleepwalking Towards The Apocalypse, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Vic
2015 Narratives, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2008 From Lajatico to Leichhardt, Leichhardt City Library, Leichhardt, NSW
1997 Woodcuts, Palazzo dei Priori, Volterra, Italy
1993 Palazzo dei Priori, Volterra, Italy
1988 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1986 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1985 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1984 Lyrebird Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
1973 Avant Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond, Solander Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2023 Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Vic
2023 Prelude Artists’ Books Now, Clifton School of Arts, Clifton, NSW
2023 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle, WA
2023 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
2023 Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
2023 Northern Beaches Artists’ Book Awards, Sydney, NSW
2022 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Vic
2022 Libris Awards / Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Mackay, Qld
2022 Biennial Artist’s Book Prize, Firestation Print Studio, Vic
2022 Print Council of Australia Bookish, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Vic
2022 BIMA Artists’ Book Triennial, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, USA
2021 Summer Mixtape, HOTA, Gold Coast, Queensland
2021 Di Carta / Biennale Internazionale di Opera di Carta, Veneto, Italy
2021 Inkmasters Print Exhibition, Cairns, Queensland
2021 Bookish, Print Council of Australia Online Exhibition
2021 Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
2021 Entrancing Others, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Vic
2021 Megalo Online Relief Exhibition, Megalo Print Studio, Canberra
2021 Northern Beaches Library Artists’ Book Awards, Sydney, NSW
2020 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Vic
2020 Rene Carcan International Prize for Printmaking, Bruxelles, Belgium
2019 Mini Maxi Print Berlin, Gallerie Kuchling, Berlin, Germany
2019 Between the Sheets:Artists’ Books, Gallery East, Munster, WA
2019 Editions, Tacit Galleries. Collingwood, Vic
2018 Summer Salon, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2018 Australian Printmaking, PCA at FIGBilbao, Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao, Spain
2018 Firestation in Florence, Fondazione il Bisonte, Florence, Italy
2018 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Vic
2018 Editions, Tacit Galleries, Collingwood, Vic
2017 Imaginings, Neospace Gallery, Collingwood, Vic
2016 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle, WA
2016 Swan Hill Print & Drawing Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Vic
2016 Rene Carcan International Prize for Printmaking, Bruxelles, Belgium
2015 Australian Print Triennial, The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria
2015 Exchange / Southern Highlands Printmakers, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2015 Silk Cut Award, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield, Victoria
2015 Geelong Print Award, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
2014 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Art Award, Goulburn, NSW
2014 34th International Mini Print Exhibition, Cadaques, Spain
2014 New(s) / Southern Highlands Printmakers, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW
2014 New(s) / Southern Highlands Printmakers, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 Art For Martin Sharp, South Hill Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
2013 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Art Award, Goulburn, NSW
2013 Elements / Southern Highlands Printmakers, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2012 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle, WA
1996 Angelus Novus, Montescudaio, Italy
1996 Artigianato a Palazzo, Florence, Italy
1991 Faber Castell Drawing Prize, Sydney, NSW
1990 Torre, Castellina in Chianti, Italy
1986 6th International Mini Print Exhibition, Cadaques, Spain
1984 Gold Coast Artists, Gold Coast City Council Chambers foyer, Qld
1983 Gold Coast Artists Survey Show, Galerie Baguette, Brisbane, Qld
1972 Avant Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
AWARDS
2022 FPS Biennial Artist’s Book Prize, Highly commended
2021 TPG Architects Award, Inkmasters Print Exhibition
2021 Northern Beaches Library Artists’ Book Award
2015 Print Council of Australia print commission
2014 Veolia Creative Arts Scholarship-recognition Award
1987 Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery, Qld
1987 Suncorp Art Purchase Prize, Brisbane, Qld
1985 Australia Craft Council Special Project Grant
RESIDENCIES
2018 Art Vault Studios & Gallery, Mildura, Victoria
2019 Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
COLLECTIONS
Brisbane CAE Ceramic Collection, Brisbane CAE Print Collection, Artbank,
National Gallery of Australia Print Collection, Melbourne Grammar School,
Leichhardt City Council local history archive, City of Yarra, M.A.M.A. Albury,
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, City of Fremantle Art Collection,
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Gallery, Bainbridge Museum of Art / Cynthia Sears Collection (USA), State Library of Victoria, Northern Beaches Library, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery, Baylor University (USA), National Library Australia, Commune di Schio (VI) Italy, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Queensland, Charles Sturt University, Art Gallery of Ballarat