Peta Minnici is a Sydney based artist whose work encompasses oil painting and drawing. She Selects subjects based on personal memory which include figurative portraits, still life, familiar landscapes and interior settings in which she explores themes of loss, longing and the transience of life. Peta’s drawing technique of vertical and horizontal mark making is formed intuitively over time, while her paintings comprise of small brushstrokes of tone and colour which aim to parallel the nature of time, the recording of personal memory and the complexities of perception.

After leaving school Peta Minnici attended the Julian Ashton Art School where she studied classical drawing, she then went on to complete a Bachelor and Master of Fine Art majoring in both painting and drawing from the National Art School. Peta had her first solo exhibition at May Space gallery in 2019 and has gone on to exhibit extensively throughout Australia in solo and group exhibitions including Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Brett Whiteley Studio, National Art School, Kedumba Gallery and Clayton Utz.  In 2015 she was awarded the John Olsen Prize for Drawing, The Parkers Fine Art Award for painting and the Parkers Fine Art Award for all disciplines. In 2017 she was selected as a finalist for the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. In 2019 and 2020 she was selected as a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize and was also awarded the Kedumba Drawing award in the same year. She has undertaken  residencies at Bundanon Trust and Presbyterian Ladies College. Peta has also been featured in Art Collector Magazine, the book ‘Still Life’ written by Amber Creswell Bell and the book' ‘Clayton Utz the First Five Years written by Max Germanos and Dr Judith Pugh. Her work is held in private and public collections throughout Australia.

Peta Minnici is represented by Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane.