Peter sharp artist biography
Peter sharp artist biography
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Peter Sharp (artist)
Australian artist (born 1964)
Peter Sharp (born 1964) is an Australianartist who works predominantly in drawing.
Life and education
Born in Sydney in 1964, Peter Sharp graduated with a bachelor's degree in Art Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Painting in 1987 at the City Art Institute (later Sydney College of Advanced Education).
He completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts in 1992.
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After university, Sharp had regular solo exhibitions at Coventry Gallery, Sydney. Since 2004, however, Sharp has had an annual exhibition at the Liverpool Street Gallery in Sydney, including the critically acclaimed Whale, Sounding, and Spider shows and most recently, Handle.
Awards and residencies
In 1996, Sharp was awarded the Jacaranda Drawing Prize[1] and, in the following year, was granted a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where he collaborated with French printmake