Peter Adsett

MFA; Dip Tchng

Peter is a painter, now settled in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1989 he has presented annual exhibitions, each one of which is devoted to a single series of large-scale, abstract acrylic paintings. These have been shown at galleries in Australia, Indonesia and the United States.

Trained at Palmerston North and Massey University in the late 1970s, the artist (who has an MFA, awarded in Australia in 1999), taught studio at Centralian College, Alice Springs (1996-7), and at the School of Fine Art, Northern Territory University, Darwin (1993-2001). He has given lectures and workshops in Indonesia, New York and Wellington. Adsett was artist-in-residence at Canberra School of Art during 1997, in Yogjakarta, Indonesia (funded by Asialink) in 1999, and at the International Studio programme in New York in 2001 funded by the Australia Council and NT Museum of Art). Since 2000, Peter Adsett has exhibited in New York and Boston.

In 2001 Peter Adsett was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2004 he was artist-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and his collaboration Two Laws toured NZ. In 2005/6 Peter was involved in The Koru Club, an exhibition of artists who have responded to the work of Gordon Walters at Pataka Museum in Porirua, Wellington.