Peta Minnici is a Sydney based artist whose work encompasses oil painting and drawing. Selecting subjects based on personal memory, her subjects range from humble figurative portraits and still life images to familiar landscapes and interior settings.
Minnici deconstructs imagery creating a time-lapse effect which draws attention to the materiality of painting and drawing. Her drawing focuses on mark making, employing a labour-intensive process of vertical or horizontal hatching, which is formed intuitively over time, while her paintings comprise of numerous layers of thin paint which aims to undo the representation of each subject into small brush strokes of tone and colour. Shifting between representation and abstraction these processes parallel the nature of time, the recording of personal memory and the complex nature of viewing time.
Minnici attended the Julian Ashton Art School and has completed a Bachelor and Master of Fine Art from the National Art School.
Peta's work has been exhibited in Australia at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum, National Art School, Dominik Mersch Gallery, The Brett Whiteley Studio, May Space Gallery , Gaffa Gallery, Redland Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, Manning Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery, Griffith Regional Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery and Lost Bear Gallery. 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. Her work is held in private and public collections throughout Australia.
Peta Minnici is represented by Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane.
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Born in 1990 Sydney
EDUCATION
2018 Master of Fine Art (Drawing), National Art School, Sydney
2013-15 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), National Art School, Sydney
2012 Diploma of Fine Art, Northern Beaches Campus, Sydney
2011 Ceramics Certificate III, Northern Beaches Campus, Sydney
2009 Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2023 ‘The Duality of Reality’ Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2022 ‘Upon Reflection’ Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.
Survey Exhibition with 333 Art Projects at Clayton Utz, Sydney.
‘Kaleidoscope’ Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney.
2021 ‘Marking Time’ Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney.
‘Landscape Dreaming’ Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney.
2020 ‘Looking In, Seeing Out’-Bundanon, May Space Gallery, Sydney.
2019 ‘Light on Nostalgia’, May Space Gallery, Sydney.
Group EXHIBITIONS
2025
2024 ‘ The Spring Show’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.
‘The Summer Show’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.
2023 ‘Small Works Click & Collect’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.
2022 ‘Still Life’, Michael Reid Gallery, Northern Beaches, Sydney.
2021 ‘Opening Exhibition’, Jennings Kerr Gallery, Robertson, Sydney.
Dobell Drawing Prize and Travelling Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Gosford Art Gallery, Logan Art Gallery, Bank Art Museum Moree, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Bega Valley Regional Gallery.
2020 ‘Bundanon Dreaming’, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney.
2019 Kedumba Drawing Award Exhibition, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba.
Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
2018-19 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award and Touring Exhibition : Grafton Regional Gallery, Manning Regional Gallery, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, University of theSunshine Coast Gallery, Griffith Regional Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Tamworth Regional Gallery.
Redland Art Award Exhibition, Redland Art Gallery, QLD.
‘In the Quiet’, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2017 Finalists Exhibition, Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whitely Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney
‘Out of Line’, May Space, Waterloo, Sydney
Postgraduate Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
The Other Art Fair, Eveleigh, Sydney
2016 Co-Lab group exhibition, Centenary Institute & Dominik Mersch Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
The Chairman's Dinner, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
@variance National Art School Stairwell Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2015 Undergraduate Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Drawing Exhibition, National Art School Open Day, Darlinghurst, Sydney
‘The Grid’, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2008 ‘Express Yourself’, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
Nominated for Art Express
2004 -17 Warringah Art Prize Exhibitions
AWARDS & Residencies
2024 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW.
Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW.
2023 selected as a Judge for ‘Express Yourself ‘, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney.
2021 Finalist, Dobell Drawing Award, National Art School, Sydney
Artist in Residence, Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney
2020 Artist in Residence, Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney
2019 Winner, Kedumba Drawing Award, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba
Finalist, Dobell Drawing Award, National Art School, Sydney
Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust (Awarded Fellowship)
2018 Finalist, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA), Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton
Finalist, Redland Art Award, Redland Art Gallery, QLD
2017 Finalist, Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, AGNSW
2015 Winner, The John Olsen Award for Drawing, National Art School, Sydney
Winner, Parkers Fine Art award for Painting, National Art School, Sydney
Winner, Parkers Fine Art Framing Award for All Disciplines, National Art School, Sydney
2007 Highly Commended, Warringah Art Prize, Sydney
Publications/media
2023 Book: ‘Clayton Utz Art Partnership 2017- 2022’ published in conjuction with Clayton Utz, 3:33 Art Projects, and Bandicoot Publishing Pty Ltd, Alexandria, NSW, Australia. editors: Bruce Cooper, Kon Gouriotis and Max Germanos. written contribution by Dr. Judith Pugh.
2021 Book: ‘Still Life’ written by Amber Creswell Bell. Thames & Hudson, 2021.
2020 Interview with Richard Morecroft- ‘Artist Exhibition Series’- YouTube.
2019 Art Collector Magazine. ‘Debutantes: Peta Minnici’, written by Victoria Hynes, 14 January.
COLLECTIONS
The Macquarie Bank Art Collection
Presbyterian Ladies College Art Collection
Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings
National Art School Collection
Private collections in Australia