Peter Stichbury New Zealand, b. 1969
Peter Stichbury is known for his portraits of both both real and imagined people with smooth skin, symmetrical features, cartoonish subjects with wide-set eyes. Rigorously researching media data, declassified government documents from several nations, academic reports and video footage of UFO, Peter Stichbury analyses and pays particular attention to the materials especially related to individuals in their 20s and early 30s. He believes that people of this age group can have unbiased views on certain absurd occurrences since they are still at the premature stage in terms of mentality. The fragile beauty of Stichbury’s figures contrasts with their discomforting haunted gaze in his practice, indicating a loss of belief in the consensus reality decided by a human-oriented ideology. His employment of exaggerated realism increases this impression of unreality and reveals the internal disturbance of the characters.
Peter Stichbury has participated in exhibitions at Nevada Museum of Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand. His work is represented in the collections of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery, and Wallace Arts Trust in New Zealand.
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Peter Stichbury
High Strangeness 27 October - 30 November 2017Gallery Baton is delighted to announce ‘High Strangeness’, a solo exhibition by Peter Stichbury (b. 1969), from 27th October to 30th November in Apgujeong, Seoul. Stichbury has built a loyal audience in the US and Oceania, his portraits the visual accomplice to his elaborate, exhaustively researched case studies. This exhibition represents the first opportunity for the Asian and Korean audience to discover his work.Read more -
Ways of Recording
Chung Chi Yung, Kim Dong Yoo, Peter Stichbury, Cindy Wright, Yoon Suk One 27 May - 27 June 2015Gallery Baton is pleased to present an exhibition of selected works by five emerging artists from Korea and abroad, from 27 May to 27 June 2015. Artists Chung Chi Yung (b.1972, Korea), Kim Dong Yoo (b. 1965, Korea), Peter Stichbury (b.1969, New Zealand), Cindy Wright (b.1972, Belgium) and Yoon Suk One (b.1983, Korea) participate in this exhibition, “Ways of Recording”, offering spectators an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of painting as a method of recording artists’ contemplation and observation.Read more
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Peter Stichbury
The Truth is Out There at the Dowse Art Museum 12 March 2022Gallery Baton is pleased to announce Peter Stichbury participates to the exhibition, ’The Truth is Out There’ at The Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand. ’The...Read more -
Peter Stichbury
'Animals of God' at Fine Arts, Sydney 23 August 2019Peter Stichbury’s solo exhibition, ’Animals of God’ will be opened at Fine Arts, Sydney from August 23 to September 21, 2019. For this exhibition, as...Read more -
Peter Stichbury
'Anatomy of a Phenomenon' at NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART 5 November 20165 November, 2016 - 26 March, 2017 NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART, Reno, Nevada, USA 'New Zealand artist Peter Stichbury is fascinated by society's ongoing obsession...Read more