Details of Peter Newry
About
Peter was born in 1939 at Newry Station and lived there until 1989 when he moved to Ivanhoe Station near Kununurra. He picked cotton while he lived around Kununurra and also worked as a builder's labourer while the township of Kununurra was being built.
From there he went to live at Police Hole near the Keep River National Park which is situated close to the Northern Territory/Western Australia border. Peter started painting on a regular basis in 2002.
MEDIUM
Natural ochre and pigment on canvas
THEMES
Traditional country
Dreamtime landmarks
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2005 My Mother's Country, Indigenart, Melbourne, Vic
2005 Indigenous Art, Australian Embassy, Paris, France
2005 When Waringarri Came to Town, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2005 Waringarri Artists, Indigenart, Perth, WA
2004 Introducing Waringarri Artists, Seva Frangos Art Span Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2003 Australian Indigenous Art, Gallery Samtuh Seoul, South Korea
2003 Peter Newry & Mignonette Jamin, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2003 East Kimberley Art, Short St. Gallery, Broome, WA
2002 Warrgeberankoo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA
COLLECTIONS
Conoco Phillips Collection
Omega Trend Australia
Water Corporation
