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BIOGRAPHY
Peter Carr was born in Kiama in 1955. He has lived most of his life in the inner-city suburbs of Sydney, currently in Glebe. Upon leaving school at the age of sixteen he entered the screen-printing trade. He was then fortunate in being employed as a gardener at Rookwood Cemetery.
After a troubled time in his teenage years, two important people came into his life.
He discovered William Blake, an English poet, painter and philosopher, who introduced him to religion, to something greater, better.
The other was John Ogburn, to whom he was introduced by his mother at the age of nineteen.
Through the John Ogburn Studio he began to confront himself, and to see and notice more of the world around him.
Peter is a Director of the Harrington Street Gallery, and has been exhibiting there since 1980.
“While some might find it possible to be at home, at ease in their painting, increasingly I find more satisfaction in stepping outside, into a kind of uncertainty of nervous excitement, to approach the work with a certain trepidation leading to the excitement of the unexpected direction it takes me.
What a wonderful man was Antoni Gaudi who had a vision for a work, but this was expanded and vivified in the process of its creation"
Peter Carr was born in Kiama in 1955. He has lived most of his life in the inner-city suburbs of Sydney, currently in Glebe. Upon leaving school at the age of sixteen he entered the screen-printing trade. He was then fortunate in being employed as a gardener at Rookwood Cemetery.
After a troubled time in his teenage years, two important people came into his life.
He discovered William Blake, an English poet, painter and philosopher, who introduced him to religion, to something greater, better.
The other was John Ogburn, to whom he was introduced by his mother at the age of nineteen.
Through the John Ogburn Studio he began to confront himself, and to see and notice more of the world around him.
Peter is a Director of the Harrington Street Gallery, and has been exhibiting there since 1980.
“While some might find it possible to be at home, at ease in their painting, increasingly I find more satisfaction in stepping outside, into a kind of uncertainty of nervous excitement, to approach the work with a certain trepidation leading to the excitement of the unexpected direction it takes me.
What a wonderful man was Antoni Gaudi who had a vision for a work, but this was expanded and vivified in the process of its creation"