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| BIOGRAPHY |
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| 1956 | Born Murwillumbah, Australia |
| 1974-76 | Diploma of Fine Art, Brisbane College of Art |
| 1976-79 | Diploma of Art, City Art Institute, Sydney |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2011 | Through the Archipelago, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney |
| 2010 | Peter Cooley – Recent Works, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| Peter Cooley Ceramics, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 2009 | Where we know with Toni Warburton, Wollongong City Gallery |
| Focused, Bathurst Regional Gallery |
| 2008 | Peter Cooley: Mixture, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Peter Cooley, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 2005 | Peter Cooley, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| Peter Cooley: Jamison Valley Panorama, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| Peter Cooley, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2003 | More Tea Towels, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 2002 | Central and Northern Australia revisited (after the tea towels), Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 1999 | Paintings from Central and Northern Australia, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 1998 | From Leura to Blackheath, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 1996 | Peter Cooley, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1994 | Homemade and Slutty: Paintings and Ceramics, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1993 | Paintings and Ceramics, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Screen or Scream, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Peter Cooley, Sammlung Gallerie North, Germany |
| 1991 | Peter Cooley: Paintings on Metal, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1990 | Peter Cooley: Paintings, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1989 | Ceramic Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Peter Cooley, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| 1988 | Peter Cooley, Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Show Time, Studio 666, Paris |
| 1985 | Peter Cooley, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2012 | Picturing the Great Divide, Blue Mountains Regional Gallery, NSW |
| 2012 | Animal Human, University of Queensland Art Museum, QLD |
| 2011 | Allsorts, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2010 | The Director’s Choice, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2009 | Sylvania Waters, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery |
| 2007 | Pots of Paint, The Delmar Gallery, NSW |
| 2006 | Living Treasures, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW |
| Director’s Choice, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, no. 18, illustrated |
| 2003 | Home Sweet Home: works from the Peter Fay collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illustrated |
| Hung, Drawn & Quartered – 25 Years, 25 Artists, Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Sydney University, illustrated |
| 2001 | GOULDcontemporary, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2000 | Australian Landscape, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| 1999 | Exchange, Ray Hughes Gallery at the George Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1998 | Swish, Casula Powerhouse, Casula |
| 1997 | Ceramic Show, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
| Queers Crossing, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney |
| 1996 | Group Exhibition, Craftspace, Sydney |
| Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| Road to Love, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney |
| Ray Hughes at Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane |
| 1995 | Asia and Oceania Influence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
| It’s about time, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney |
| 1993 | Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Contemporary Australian Paintings, Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection |
| Rotary Collection of Australian Art from NGA, Touring Sydney &Melbourne |
| After the Field, Manly Art Gallery, NSW |
| We are Here, ACCA, Melbourne |
| Sshh…, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Rotary Travelling Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| 1992 | You are Here, ACCA Melbourne, IMA Brisbane, CAS Melbourne |
| Wish Hard, Biennale Satellite, Wollongong City Gallery |
| Ceramic Design Group, Mori Annexe, Sydney |
| We are Here, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1991 | Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
| Rules for Drawing, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1990 | Art within Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne |
| Art Frankfurt 1990, Mori Gallery and Frankfurt |
| Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Invitational Prize, Centre Regional Gallery, Queensland |
| Dissonances, Espace, Vendome, Paris |
| The New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
| 1987 | Modern Objects, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
| Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris |
| A First Look, Drill Hall, ANG |
| Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1985 | Queensland Works, University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland |
| Colour-Form-Pattern, University of Tasmania Art Gallery, Tasmania |
| 1984 | Five from Sydney, Loaded Brush Gallery, Seattle, USA |
| 1983 | Landscape, Mori Gallery, Sydney |
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| AWARDS |
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| 2010 | Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Prize |
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| SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
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| The Australian National Gallery, Canberra |
| The British Museum, London |
| National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| Phillip Morris Collection |
| Art Gallery of Western Australia |
| Macquarie Bank |
| Wollongong City Gallery |
| NRMA |
| Gold Coast City Art Gallery |
| John McBride Collection |
| Artbank |
| Peter Fay Collection |
| Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| Review by Elizabeth Fortescue, Daily Telegraph 12 March 2010 |
| ‘Spectrum’, Sydney Morning Herald 20 March 201 |
| ‘Reality Takes a Beating’, Sydney Morning Herald 14 October 2009 |
| Mark Bayly, ‘Peter Cooley – Phantasmagoria’, Ceramics: Art and Perception, issue 62, 2005, pp. 37-40 |
| ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Art Bank, no. 6, 2002 |
| Benjamin Genocchio, ‘Review’, The Weekend Australian, 9-10 March, 2002 |
| Michael Reid, ‘Art Market’, The Weekend Australian, 11-12 September, 1999 |
| Sebastian Smee, ‘Metro’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March, 1998 |
| ‘Domain’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March, 1997 |
| John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 February, 1996 |
| Bruce James, ‘Arts Beat’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October, 1996 |
| Anna Johnson, ‘Review’, ABC Television, 7 October, 1996 |
| Jo Holder, ‘The Cosmopolitan Esperanto of Coffee Shops’, Monument, no. 8, 1995 |
| Felicity Fenner, ‘Astronaut of British Abstraction’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July, 1994 |
| Felicity Fenner, ‘When Bad Means Good’, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 July, 1994 |
| David O’Halloran, ‘A Specific Framework’, The Advertiser, 21 October, 1993 |
| David Phillips, ‘You are Here’, Eyeline, Autumn, 1993 |
| Bronwyn Watson, ‘Haunted by War’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February, 1993 |
| Terry Ingram, ‘Art Frankfurt Review’, Australian Financial Review, 6 May, 1993 |
| Terence Maloon, We are Here, ACCA, Melbourne, 1993. (cat) |
| Sue Smith, ‘Gay Art Fired with Wit’, The Courier Mail, 20 November, 1992 |
| Bronwyn Watson, ‘Shoplifters Scream’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31July, 1992 |
| Jo Saurin, ‘In the Abyss of Uncomfortable Truths about Art and Life’, Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March, 1991 |
| Joanne Mendhelssohn, ‘Taking a Risk on Art’, The Bulletin, 14 June 1988, p.108 |
| Catherine David, Dissonances, Union des Assurances de Paris, 1988. (cat) |
| A new Generation, the 80’s Catalogue, National Gallery of Australia. (cat) |
| Salon de Jeune Peinture, Paris, 1987. (cat) |
| Mori Gallery at United Artists, Melbourne, Mori Gallery, 1986. (cat) |
| Queensland Works, University of Queensland Press, 1985. (cat) |