Peter Coad

Peter Coad
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Biography:

Born in 1947, Peter spent his first 10 years in the Mallee town of Karoonda approximately 120kms south-east of Adelaide, South Australia. His surroundings were vast landscape and this may explain his connection with wide-open spaces and the vibrant colours that nature presents.   

For subject matter he makes regular artistic journeys to destinations in Australia and overseas, where he chooses locations that he can mindfully connect to. The cultural understanding, history and knowledge gained of each place clearly assists in his capturing the essence and feeling of the land in his paintings. His work has not been restricted to landscape for which he is clearly recognized but also over the years, he has produced many unique collections such as the ‘Icon for Travellers’ series.

At the age of 10, when he moved to Adelaide, he finished his schooling and began a career in graphic arts excelling and winning awards in the fields of Silk Screen Printing and Signwriting but his passion and the eventual demand for his paintings saw him become a full-time professional artist in 1996. He has now been painting for over 40 years, held over 70 Solo Exhibitions and participated in more than 200 group shows including in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, Dubai, New York, Los Angeles. A major group show was a South Australian Artists exhibition held at the prestigious Kubo-Kuxta Gallery in San Sebastian, Spain.  He has also served two terms as Vice President of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, given talks on his art and been a participant, advise, curator and judge of exhibitions in Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Japan.

His achievements in other areas of the arts are many, the following being just a few:  In 1991 he organized and curated an exhibition held in Penang, Malaysia, of artwork of members from the Royal South Australian Society of Arts for the Adelaide/Georgetown Official Sister City, 25th Anniversary Celebration Visit with the Lord Mayor and Council Members of the City of Adelaide. One of his paintings was given as a gift to the City of Georgetown.  In 2001 the Adelaide Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages chose Peter to be the first contemporary landscape artist to have two of his paintings reproduced for the Australian Commemorative Birth Certificates for the Year of the Outback.  In 2005, Hollister Incorporated of Illinois U.S.A. chose one of Peter’s works to reproduce for their Christmas gift to their worldwide clients.  Cairns City Council in Queensland, Australia, chose Peter’s paintings to give to two of their Sister Cities, one in 2005 to the City of Oyama in Japan as a commemorative gift for the signing of their Sister City Agreement and in 2006 one was given to the Mayor of Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province, China, for the Official Opening of the Australian designed “Friendship Gardens” in Zhanjiang. 

Peter is also well-known to Film audiences as being commissioned by internationally acclaimed Australian Film Director, Rolf de Heer, to paint 14 large canvases which appear as static scenes in the Award-Winning film 'The Tracker'. (A main feature of the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002 and the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival, also selected to participate in numerous International Film Festivals). The inclusion of original artwork in this way was a first for an Australian feature film and the process taken and images of these paintings are published in a Book and can be seen on a Documentary appearing on the DVD of the Film. Peter has also filmed and produced several documentaries on his work within some of the inspirational locations visited.

He is a confident, energetic artist whose use of dramatic colours for his vigorous interpretations capture the glowing earthy yellows and oranges of the land, the ephemeral purples, aqua and blues of the sky and lagoons and they reflect the uniqueness of the terrain and the changes of the day and seasons.  They also reveal to us landscapes of harsh, yet breath-taking beauty, as he skilfully blends symbolic depictions of mountains, wetlands, vegetation and bird life in an endeavour to convey an awareness of the delicate balance of the environment.  

Peter has gained many private and corporate collectors of his works within Australia and Internationally.

Résumé:

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

73 Solo Exhibitions since 1978

2021             Wentworth Galleries, (Online Exhibition – due to COVID restrictions) Sydney, New South Wales

2020             ‘Visible Silence’ Mandoon Estate, Linton and Kay Galleries, Swan Valley, Western Australia

Solo exhibition, “Survey”, for SALA 2020, Dickson Wright Lawyers & Michael Lindblom Lawyers Goodwood, South Australia

2019             Art Images Gallery 70th Solo Exhibition, Norwood, South Australia

2018             Manyung Galleries, “Horizon”, Mt Eliza, Victoria

2017             Wentworth Galleries, “Under an Open Sky”, Sydney, New South Wales

2016             Art Images Gallery, Norwood, South Australia

2015             Bridgewater Mill Restaurant Gallery, Mt Barker, South Australia

2014             Wentworth Galleries, “A world without words”, Sydney, New South Wales

                     “A Moving Moment” for SALA 2014 in support of the Hutt St Centre for the Homeless, Toop and Toop Real Estate, The Abbey, Goodwood, South Australia

2013             The Prairie on O’Connell Café Gallery, “Collective” for SALA, North Adelaide, South Australia

2012             Linton and Kay Galleries, “When Memory Becomes Art”, Perth, Western Australia

2011             Portsea Art Gallery, Portsea, Victoria

                     Prairie Hotel, “Beyond Parachilna” Parachilna, South Australia

                     Karoonda Centenary Celebrations, District Council of Karoonda/East Murray Chambers, “Traveller in Landscape”, Karoonda, South Australia

                     Greenhill Galleries, “Traveller in Landscape”, North Adelaide, South Australia

2010             Waverley Homestead “Subconsciously Coad” SALA Exhibition, Willunga South Australia

                     Glenferrie Road Contemporary Art Gallery “Subconsciously Coad” Malvern, Victoria

2009             LK Galleries, “Ancient Landscapes”, Perth, Western Australia

2008             Prairie Hotel, “Ancient Landscapes”, Parachilna, South Australia

                     Framed, The Darwin Gallery, “Survey”, Darwin, Northern Territory

                     Gallery at the Wentworth, “Ancient Landscapes”, Sydney, New South Wales

2007             Greenhill Galleries, “Retrospective Works 1975 – 2005”, North Adelaide, South Australia

                     Reef & Rainforest Gallery, “New Works”, Cairns, Queensland

                     Monsoon Gallery, “Survey”, Broome, Western Australia

2006             Greenhill Galleries/Hilton Adelaide, Large Canvas Exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia

                     The New Paul Gullotti Galleries, Perth, Western Australia

2005             Monsoon Gallery, "Broome Diaries", Broome, Western Australia.

                     Greenhill Galleries, "Visions, Vistas and Volcanoes", North Adelaide, South Australia.

2004             Gallery at the Wentworth, "North by North West", Sydney, New South Wales.

                     Without Pier Gallery, "North by North West", Sandringham, Victoria.

                     Gullotti Galleries, "North by North West", Perth, Western Australia

2003             Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Victoria.

                     Mulgara Gallery, Ayers Rock Resort, Northern Territory.

                     Monsoon Gallery "Journeys from my sketchbooks" Broome, Western Australia.

                     Greenhill Galleries, "North by North West", North Adelaide, South Australia.

2002             Adelaide Festival of Arts 02, venue Adelaide Hilton Hotel, “The Tracker Paintings”, Adelaide, South Australia (in conjunction with Greenhill Galleries and Art Images Gallery)

                     Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, venue Her Majesty's Theatre, “Final Colour Studies for The Tracker”, Adelaide, South Australia.

                     Gadfly Gallery, “Images of an Ancient Land”, Dalkeith, Western Australia.

                     51st Melbourne International Film Festival, venue: Without Pier Gallery, “The Tracker Paintings”, Sandringham, Victoria.

                     During the National Release of the Film, venue: Gallery at the Wentworth, “The Tracker Paintings” Sydney, New South Wales.

2001             Karoonda Development Group, District Council of Karoonda East Murray Chambers, “Odyssey”, Karoonda, South Australia.

                     Gallery at the Wentworth, “Journeys”, Sydney, New South Wales.

                     Without Pier Gallery, “Journeys”, Sandringham, Victoria.

2000             Greenhill Galleries, “Odyssey”, North Adelaide, South Australia.

                     Monsoon Gallery, “Odyssey”, Cable Beach Inter-Continental Resort, Broome, Western Australia.

1999             Antipodes Gallery, “Gondwanaland Suite”, Sorrento, Victoria.

                     Without Pier Gallery, “Gondwanaland - Ancient Land Sites”, Sandringham, Victoria.

1998             Michael Commerford Gallery, “Spirits in Landscape”, Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales

1997             Greenhill Galleries, “Spirits in Landscape”, North Adelaide, South Australia.

1995             Greenhill Galleries, “Icons for a Traveller”, North Adelaide, South Australia.

                     Studio Star Gallery, “Icons for a Traveller”, Darwin, Northern Territory.

1994             The Barn Art Gallery, “Birds in Landscape”, McLaren Vale, South Australia.

1993             Elgin Gallery, “Variations in Landscape”, Carlton, Victoria.

1992             The Gallery Wall, “A walk in the Australian Landscape”, Edgecliff, New South Wales.

                     Reade Art Gallery, “Paintings from a Bali Sketchbook”, Eastwood, South Australia.

1991             Elgin Gallery, “New works - New Locations”, Carlton, Victoria.

                     Bridge Street Gallery, Complete Canvas Exhibition, Woollahra, New South Wales.

                     Greenhill Galleries, “Summer”, North Adelaide, South Australia.

1990             Casey Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales.

                     Reade Art Gallery, “Australia’s Greatest Asset - Landscape”, Eastwood, South Australia.

                     Studio Star Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory

1989             Elgin Gallery, “Australian Landscape - a New Perspective”, Carlton, Victoria.

                     Aptos Cruz, “Influences from Africa”, Stirling, South Australia.

1988             Reade Art Gallery, “Kurangh”, Eastwood, South Australia

                     The Barn Art Gallery, “My South Australia”, McLaren Vale, South Australia.

1987             Private Exhibition, “Coorong Sketchbook”, Tremayne's, Toorak, Victoria

                     Greenhill Galleries, North Adelaide, South Australia.

1986             Private Exhibition, “River Series III”, South Yarra, Victoria.

                     The Barn Art Gallery, “Variations of the River”, McLaren Vale, South Australia.

1985             Private Exhibition, “River Series”, Highgate Hill, Toorak, Victoria.

                     Le Paris Restaurant Gallery, “River Series II”, North Adelaide, South Australia.

1978             Coach House Gallery, Festival of Arts Exhibition, Tea Tree Gully, South Australia

 

PUBLISHED AND/OR FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS:

 

2021    Coast Lines Magazine, April 2021

2019    SA Life Magazine October 2019 for 70th Solo Exhibition

            Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2020 Diary

2018    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2019 Diary Mornington Peninsula Magazine, Victoria, July 2018

2017    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2018 Diary

            Unbridling the Western Auteur, Dr Emma Hamilton, The University of Newcastle, Australia

2016    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2017 Diary

            SA Life Magazine November 2016

            Studies in Australasian Cinema or Film History for The University of Sydney, by Dr Marita Bullock. Australia

            Arts & Medicine Section of the Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy Magazine, Ohio, U.S.A.  http://cdt.amegroups.com/article/view11705/15033

2015    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2016 Diary       

2014    International Westerns – Re-Locating the Frontier, Miller & Van Riper - U.S.A. 

             Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2015 Diary       

2013    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2014 Diary       

2012    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2013 Diary       

2011    Artwork featured on the Cover of the New South Wales Legal Aid 2012 Diary       

2010    Boab Bulletin – No. 100 October 2010 - Landscape Art and the Kimberley – Kimberley Society Inc.

            Intangibles in Terra Australia, Sala Kubo-Kuxta Spain

            Skywest Inflight Magazine OUTthere, May, Western Australia/Northern Territory

2007    The Advertiser Review, May 5, South Australia

2006    YouYu Adelaide Japanese lifestyle magazine no. 28 South Australia/Japan

            Destinations Australia - Queensland

2003    Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia, Michael Berry - Victoria

2002     Peter Coad, Paintings and Drawings for the Film, The Tracker - South Australia

2000     International Artist Feb/March - New South Wales

1997    Camapa No. 3 Magazine - Russia

1991    Australian Artist Magazine, October - Sydney

1990    Craft-Arts Magazine, Oct/Dec - Sydney

            Artists and Galleries of Australia - Max Germein - Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition

            Craftsman press, Sydney, Page 126

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Associated Exhibitions

Sorrento Nature Art Soirée
Manyung Gallery Sorrento
28 January - 3 February, 2023
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Peter Coad
When Memory Becomes Art

Manyung Gallery Malvern
5 November - 19 November, 2022
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September in Sorrento
Manyung Gallery Sorrento
1 September - 30 September, 2018
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Horizon |Peter Coad
Mt Eliza
6 July - 22 July, 2018
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Land, Sea and Sky
Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
8 July - 22 July, 2017
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Visualising Our Landscape
Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
24 June - 8 July, 2016
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The Contemporary Landscape
Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza
2 July - 26 July, 2015
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Small Works Big Ideas
Manyung at Glenferrie
6 December - 21 December, 2013
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Rhythm of the Land
Manyung at Mount Eliza
Annual Landscape Show featuring Peter Coad, Melanie Hava, Carole Foster, Drew Gregory, Rose Knight, Yosi Messiah, Chris Kenyon, Terrence J Hadler and Christine McCarthy.
5 July - 28 July, 2013
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