Peta Minnici (b. 1990, Sydney) is an Australian artist working primarily in oil painting and drawing. Her practice explores themes of memory, longing, loss, and the transience of life, drawing on personal experiences to create atmospheric interiors, figurative portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Through intuitive layering and tonal brushwork, Minnici’s work reflects the slow unfolding of memory and the imprint of time on the body and mind.

Minnici has exhibited widely across Australia, with solo and group exhibitions at venues including Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Brett Whiteley Studio, National Art School, Kedumba Gallery, and Clayton Utz. She held her debut solo exhibition at MAY SPACE in 2019 and is represented by Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane. Her work has been recognised with numerous awards, including the John Olsen Prize for Drawing, the Parkers Fine Art Award for Painting, and the Kedumba Drawing Award (2020). She has been a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2017) and the Dobell Drawing Prize (2019, 2020). Residencies include Bundanon Trust and Presbyterian Ladies’ College.

Minnici’s paintings and drawings are held in private and public collections across Australia. Her work has been featured in Art Collector magazine, Amber Creswell Bell’s Still Life, and Clayton Utz: The First Five Years by Max Germanos and Dr Judith Pugh.

Minnici trained at the Julian Ashton Art School and holds a Bachelor and Master of Fine Art (Painting and Drawing) from the National Art School, Sydney.