CV
1959 Born Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.
1982 Bachelor of Fine Art, Drawing, Victoria College, Victoria, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Blur 6, @14 Langridge St Collingwood, Melbourne
2022 Blur 5, @14 Langridge St Collingwood, Melbourne
2018 The Drifters, 215 Albion St Brunswick, Melbourne
2016 The Drifters, Collectionair.com
2011 How is it that you come to be here? Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
2009 Land Marks, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
2004 Hover, Spacement, Melbourne
Beyond Xanadu, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2002 Sharpies, Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces, Melbourne
2001 Sharpies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Timewise revisited, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
Blur 3, Rex-Livingston & Corlette, Sydney
2000 Blur 2, PB Gallery, Swinburne TAFE, Melbourne
1998 Flux, warehouse, River Street, Melbourne
1996 Detritus, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1994 Time After Time, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1992 Timewise, Zero Studios, Malthouse Lane, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria.
2013 Preview 2013, Murray White Room, Melbourne
2007 The Schank Show, Paul Morgan Beach House, Cape Schank
2005 I’m travellin’ light’ … ‘No, no, you don’t travel light’, Spacement, Melbourne
2004 Surface Tension, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Freaks, Fiends and Folly, curated by David H Thomas, Bright! Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Blur, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, Sydney
Genus, Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne
White and Black, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Episode, exhibition & book project with 50 contributors, concept & coordination by Peter Robertson, Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne
Bilateral, (with Andrew Browne), Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
Hard Candy, curated by Rozalind Drummond, Westbourne Gardens, London
1994 Archibald Prize finalist, Packers Prize winner, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Jason Crombie, Peter Robertson: Angry Teen/Artist, monsterchildren.com
Dr Victoria Hobday, The Drifters, Collectionair.com, May 2016
2011 Broadsheet Melbourne, How is it that you come to be here? Exhibition Review, broadsheet.com.au
LeanneClancey, The Moat at The Wheeler Centre, Broadsheet, November 25 2011
2009 Dan Rule, Around The Galleries, Exhibition Review, The Age, August 2009
M Magazine, Landmarks, Exhibition Review, The Age, July 26 2009
Peter Robertson, Exploring Narrative in Land Marks Exhibition, Artist’s Statement September 2009
2007 Mark Feary, Shore Schank Redemption, Poster Essay
2005 Michael Farrell, hover, naturalselection.org.nz, issue #4, Autumn 2005
2004 Daniel Palmer and Kate Rhodes, Beyond Xanadu, Peter Robertson, Photofile #71, Winter 2004
2003 Mark Gomes, Hetero Camp, Australian Art Collector #23, January – March 2003
Alisdair Foster, Look Sharp, Photofile #69, August 2003
2002 Gabriella Coslovich, Q The Interview, artist profile, Agenda, The Sunday Age, March 10 2002
Alison Barclay, Sharp shooting, Herald Sun, March 22 2002
Lucinda Strahan, Sharpies – A Unique Australian Subculture, www.abc.net.au/arts/visual/stories/sharpies, July 11 2002
Alexa Moses, Streaks of genius, Sydney Morning Herald, August 3 2002
Robert McFarlane, Images for the head, not the heart, Sydney Morning Herald, August 5 2002
Fab Five, Brisbane News, December 11 2002
2001 Russell Storer, Sharpies, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2001
Evelyne Yamine, Other Pictures, Sharpies and Photoworks, Daily Telegraph, November 26 2001
2000 Nicole Tomlinson, Familiar City, Blur 2 exhibition catalogue 2000
Andrew Browne, Bilateral, exhibition catalogue, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria
1994 Peter Cochrane, Archibald Prize, report, Sydney Morning Herald, March 12 1994
Peter Cochrane, Archibald Prize, report, Sydney Morning Herald, March 17 1994
Elwyn Lynn, Archibald Prize, report, The Australian, March 18 1994
Matthew Westwood, Archibald Prize, report, The Australian, March 18 1994
Elizabeth Fortescue, Archibald Prize, report, Daily Telegraph Mirror March 18 1994
Deborah Jones & Matthew Westwood, Archibald Prize, review,
The Weekend Australian, March 19 & 20 1994
Elwyn Lynn, Archibald Prize, review, The Weekend Australian, March 26 1994
Michelle Ronksley, Portrait of the Archibald, Art Monthly, May 1994
Emily Ross, Different Strokes, artist profile, Melbourne Weekly, Aug 30 1994
Elizabeth Rogers, Time After Time, review, Artfan 3+4 1994
Pippa Leary, The Shock of The Nude, Black & White mag., no. 8, August 1994
1992 Professor Leon van Schaik, Timewise, review, Agenda No 23, May/June 1994
Michael Graf, Timewise, review, The Interior, Vol. 1, No. 5 & 6, 1992
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2004 Lives & Works in Melbourne, book of photographs of Melbourne artists,
photographed and published by Concettina Inserra,
2001 Sharpies, feature article, Doing Bird, #1.
2000 38 South, RMIT, architecture publication, Melbourne, Victoria. Front cover.
Episode, large format artists’ book, with 50 contributors,
concept and editing by Peter Robertson, independent publication.
1997 Oedipus Revisited, Temple Studio Publication #19
1996 Our Son Orson, Temple Studio Publication #17
Time Revoked/Fever Dreams, Artist Page, Artfan 7+8.