King Street Gallery on William and Charles Nodrum Gallery represent the John Peart Estate.
“John Peart produced paintings that are wide-ranging, relentless and investigative. Peart made paintings of profound intelligence and enduring exhilaration, rarely equalled in Australian twentieth-century art.” – Geoffrey Legge, 2016
John Peart was born in 1945 in Brisbane and died at Wedderburn, NSW in 2013.
The retrospective exhibition John Peart Paintings 1964-2004 at Campbelltown Arts Centre aimed to celebrate Peart’s oeuvre. Curator Renee Porter outlined that the exhibition “demonstrates Peart’s artistic development and his significant standing in contemporary Australian painting. He has had a long and distinguished career, rising to national prominence over the past 40 years.” Additionally, he notes the eminence of Peart’s work in various state, regional and corporate collections across Australia and internationally [information supplied by Watters Gallery and the Peart family].
He was the recipient of a number of major art prizes, having won the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in 1997 with his work ‘Nandi Moon’, the Sulman Prize in 2000, and was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 1998. In 2004, the Campbelltown Arts Centre organised a retrospective exhibition ‘John Peart – Paintings 1964-2004′ which toured galleries throughout Australia, including the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra.
Throughout the late 1960’s and 1970’s Peart lived and worked in the US, Europe, UK and India. In 1975 he returned to Sydney where he continued to paint and began teaching at the National Art School. In the early 80’s he was invited by fellow artist Roy Jackson to join the Wedderburn community of artists in NSW where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.
Peart’s artworks were hung in 36 solo exhibitions at Watters Gallery, the final being John Peart: Painting and Works on Paper – Selected by Elisabeth Cummings, in 2017.
2024
John Peart King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
2023
Formations and Rhythms [Works on paper] King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2022
Formations and Rhythms King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2019
John Peart: Works from the Studio Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2018
John Peart: Paintings Watters Gallery, Sydney
2017
John Peart: Paintings and Works on Paper selected by Elisabeth Cummings, Watters Gallery
2016
John Peart: The Sixties – a selection of works on paper from the estate Watters Gallery
John Peart: Homage Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW
Gorge Campbelltown Arts Centre
2015
John Peart: A Selection from the Estate Watters Gallery
2014
John Peart: Collages Watters Gallery
John Peart: Monochrome and Duochrome – Introduction, Charles Nodrum Gallery
2013
John Peart: Land and other Scapes II Watters Gallery
2011
John Peart: Moment Series & Tiru Series Watters Gallery
John Peart: Collages Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2010
John Peart: Collages Watters Gallery
2009
Mainly Painting Watters Gallery
2008
Tetrads Charles Nodrum Gallery
2007
Themes and Variations Watters Gallery
2006
Small Panel Painting Series Watters Gallery
Nine Paintings Charles Nodrum Gallery
2005
John Peart: Panel Paintings Watters Gallery
2004-2006
John Peart: Paintings 1964 – 2004 Campbelltown Arts Centre Travelling Exhibition; LaTrobe Regional Gallery, VIC; Tamworth Gallery, NSW; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA; Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania; Campbelltown Arts Centre
2003
Recent paintings Watters Gallery
2002
Paintings Watters Gallery
Homage to Collage Charles Nodrum Gallery
2001
Collages Watters Gallery
2000
Recent work Watters Gallery
1999
Works on Paper Watters Gallery
Charles Nodrum Gallery
1998
Watters Gallery
1996
Charles Nodrum Gallery
Land and other Scapes Watters Gallery
1994
Paintings Watters Gallery
1993
Charles Nodrum Gallery
1992
Paintings Watters Gallery
1991
Mysterious Paintings from the Mid-Seventies Watters Gallery
1990
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1989
Paintings Watters Gallery
Monotypes Milburn + Arte, Brisbane
1988
Powell Street Gallery
Monotypes Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1987
Paintings Watters Gallery
1986
Paintings and Works on Paper, Festival of Pearth 1986 Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Monotypes Watters Gallery
Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
1985
Powell Street Gallery
John Peart: Selected Paintings 1964-76 Charles Nodrum Gallery
Paintings Watters Gallery
1983
Collages Watters Gallery
Seven Paintings by John Peart 123 Charlotte St, Brisbane
1982
Powell Street Gallery
Paintings &Collages Watters Gallery
1981
Paintings Watters Gallery
1980
Solander Gallery, Canberra
1979
Paintings Watters Gallery
Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery
1977
Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Paintings Watters Gallery
1976
Paintings Watters Gallery
Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
1974
Paintings (From England) Watters Gallery
Abraxas Gallery
1972
Powell Street Gallery
Watters Gallery
1971
Paintings Watters Gallery
1970
Paintings Watters Gallery
1969
Paintings from Paris Watters Gallery
Paintings, Pastels, Drawings Watters Gallery
1968
White Painting Series Watters Gallery
1967
Monochromatic Paintings Watters Gallery
2024
The Scenic Route King Street Gallery on William, Sydney, NSW
Wilder Times: Arthur Boyd and the Mid 1980s Landscape Bundanon Art Museum, Bundanon, NSW
2023
Australian Painting & Sculpture Charles Nodrum Gallery
2022
Abstraction 22 Charles Nodrum Gallery
Courage and beauty : the James C Sourris AM collection Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art
2021
The Big Picture Show King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
Storylines + Songlines Justin Art House Museum, Vic
Art Trail: Electric – Artworks from the Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection Latrobe Regional Gallery
Feeling Abstract? Paintings from the UWA Art Collection, 1950-1990 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA
2020
Kenwood Road King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
The Watters Gift University of Technology Sydney Gallery, Sydney
Abstraction 20 Charles Nodrum Gallery
2019
Abstract 19’ King Street Gallery on William
Stuck together [collage & assemblage] Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Hassall Collection: A Masterpiece Collection of Australian Art Drill Hall Gallery
Gallery Artists: 35th Birthday Group Show Charles Nodrum Gallery
2018
RAW Wedderburn Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, NSW
The Field Revisited National Gallery of Victoria
Abstraction 18: Further a-Field, 1970s Charles Nodrum Gallery
Abstraction 17: A Field of Interest, c. 1968 Charles Nodrum Gallery
2017
Abstraction 16 Charles Nodrum Gallery
2016
Modern Australian Painting Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Words, Words, Words… Charles Nodrum Gallery
2015
Little Pictures and Sculptures Charles Nodrum Gallery
John Peart and Joe Frost: Small Works on Paper Watters Gallery
Abstraction 14 Charles Nodrum Gallery
2014
Watters Gallery 50th Anniversary Exhibition Watters Gallery, Sydney
Watters Gallery Five Decades S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2013
Six Artists / Seven Days Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
Abstracting the Landscape: Paintings & Works on paper 1953 – 2013 Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Vista Charles Nodrum Gallery
Sydney Contemporary Artfair Carriageworks, Sydney
Homage to Roy Jackson Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Stuck Together collage and assemblages, Defiance Gallery
Watters Gallery 27th Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
2012
Melbourne Art Fair 2012 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2011
Salon des Refusés S.H. Ervin Gallery
Abstraction ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Frank’s Flat Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2010
Black is the Colour… Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra
Art Month Sydney Watters Gallery
Unframed with Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, John Peart, Robert Hirschmann, Ildiko Kovacs & Roy Jackson Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
Melbourne Art Fair 2010 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Watters Gallery Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
2009
The Wynne Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW)
MONO Uno prints from the Charles Sturt University Collection Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Tackling the Field Art Gallery of New South Wales
After ‘The Field’ Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney
Watters Gallery Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
2008
Abstraction 7 Charles Nodrum Gallery
Rubik Charles Nodrum Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2007
2007: The Year in Art S.H. Ervin Gallery
John Peart and Roy Jackson – 3 x 2 by two Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
Double Visions COFA space UNSW & Orange Regional Art Gallery
2006
Same Place, Many Views Defiance Gallery
Crossing Paths II with Roy Jackson, Ildiko Kovacs, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn and John Peart Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2005 Revisited Watters Gallery
Colonial to Contemporary: Queensland College of Arts 125 years Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld
John Peart & Paul Selwood Charles Nodrum Gallery
2006: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery
The Chroma Collection Macquarie University Art Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2006 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2005
2005: The Year in Art S.H. Ervin Gallery
2004
4.6% – 25 works from the Union Art Collection Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
John Peart + Gary Gregg – white + black The Depot Gallery, Sydney
Modern Australian Paintings Charles Nodrum Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair 2004 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Nineteenth Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
2003
Eighteenth Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
2002
Abstraction Charles Nodrum Gallery
Modern Australian Painting Charles Nodrum Gallery
Selected Australian Paintings from the 1960’s to the Present Charles Nodrum at Deutscher Menzies Gallery, Sydney
2002: The Year in Art S.H. Ervin Gallery
Field Work: Australian Art 1968-2002 National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
Unsaid: The Spiritual in Art Stephanie Burns Fine Art, ACT
Summer Exhibition No.17 Watters Gallery
Towards a Free Tibet Span Galleries, Melbourne
2001
A Century of Collecting 1901-2001 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Australian Art: The Sixties till now Kaliman Gallery, Sydney
Ignite Cellblock Gallery, National Art School, Sydney
Sixteenth Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
2000
Abstract Painting Derived from Landscape Watters Gallery
Selected Works Watters Gallery
Common Ground Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Fifteenth Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
1999
Works on Paper Watters Gallery
The Innovators S.H. Ervin Gallery
The Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Seventh International Works on Paper Fair Moore Park, Sydney
Summer Exhibition No. 14 Watters Gallery
1998
Australia Day Ambassadors for 1998 Exhibition Government House, Sydney
The Wynne Prize AGNSW
The Archibald Prize AGNSW
Symbiosis Utopia Art Sydney
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW
Material Perfection: Minimal Art and its Aftermaths selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building
The Great Art Auction Cell Block Theatre, National Art School
Art & Furniture of the 1960’s Charles Nodrum Gallery
6 from Wedderburn Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, NSW
10th Anniversary Exhibition Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
1997
The Wynne Prize AGNSW [Winner]
Large Scale Painting from the Holmes a Court Collection Cullity Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
Dugongs of Hinchinbrook The Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Artists Awarded the Wynne Prize Turkish Baths Museum, Mount Wilson, NSW
Kedumba Drawing Prize Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
Holms à Court Collection University of WA
Collages: John Peart, Jon Plapp, Peter Poulet Watters Gallery
Works on Paper: Roy Jackson and John Peart Watters Gallery
Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
1996
Hidden Treasures II: Art in Corporate Collections S.H. Ervin Gallery
The Wynne Prize AGNSW
Clememger Award – Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art NGV
Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
The Contemporary Collection – Part 2 Sir Herman Black Gallery, University Sydney
1995-96
Summer 95-96 Watters Gallery
1994
The Wynne Prize AGNSW
The Sir John Sulman Prize AGNSW
On Your Mark: An exhibition of drawings by staff of the National Art School National Art School (NAS), Sydney
The Abstract Show: An exploration into Abstraction with works from the Gallery collection Wollongong City Gallery
The King’s School Art Prize King’s School, Sydney
Modern Australian Paintings Charles Nodrum Gallery
Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building
Bushfire Berrima District Art Society, Bowral
30th Anniversary Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
1993
On the Other Hand S.H. Ervin Gallery
Within a Stone’s Throw Campbelltown City & AGNSW
March Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane
After the Field Utopia Art Gallery
After the Field Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Whaling Street Studios – Print Show POD Gallery, Sydney
On Paper Sherman Galleries Goodhope Street, Sydney
POD Birthday Ink Show POD Gallery
Group Show: with Richard Larter and Ron Lambert Watters Gallery
Contemporary Australian Painting: Works from the Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Collection (Now Allens) Melbourne International Festival, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Art Centre
Within a Stone’s Throw – in association with Campbelltown City Art Gallery king street gallery on burton, Sydney
On Paper Solander Gallery, Canberra
Cellular Forms Watters Gallery
Looking at Art: Summer Exhibition No. 8 Watters Gallery
1992
Terracollaboratis (with Roy Jackson, James Jones, Robert Hirschmann, Geoffrey Russell and Elizabeth Cummings) king street gallery on burton
The Wynne Prize AGNSW
Abstract Works from the Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Brisbane
Max Watters’ Collection Muswellbrook Town Hall and Art Gallery, NSW
Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Collages Watters Gallery
Summer Exhibition Watters Gallery
1991
Tribute to Fairweather Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Cross Currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian art from the Chartwell Collection Waikato, Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ
Modern Australian Paintings Charles Nodrum Gallery
1990
Art on the Campus Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
Homage to Morandi Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
10 x 10 Milburn + Arte, Brisbane
Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building
The Wynne Prize AGNSW
Works on Paper: 40 Artists – 40 Work Watters Gallery
Summer Exhibition No. 6 Watters Gallery
1989
The Wynne Prize AGNSW
The Archibald Prize AGNSW
Portrait of a Gallery: Watters Gallery 25th anniversary exhibition touring to eight regional centres until 1991
Modern Australian Painting Charles Nodrum Gallery
Autumn Exhibition Peter Gant Fine Art, Melbourne
Upstairs Summer Exhibition No. 5 Watters Gallery
1988
Solo Images – an exhibition of monoprints The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
The Intuitive Line with sculptor Paul Selwood Watters Gallery
The First Australian Contemporary Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building
The Caddy Collection Watters Gallery, Sydney
Drawing in Australia from 1770’s to 1980’s National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
Max Watters’ Collection Muswellbrook Art Gallery, NSW
Group Show Watters Gallery
Summer Exhibition No. 5 Watters Gallery
1987
South Bank Exhibition Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Peter Clarke, John Firth-Smith, John Peart Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Field to Figuration NGV
Painters and Sculptors: diversity in contemporary Australian Art Queensland Art Gallery
Contemporary Art in Australia – a review Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Painters & Sculptors Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
13 Artists at Galerie Düsseldorf Galerie Düsseldorf
Selected Works Watters Gallery
One Sculptor, Six Painters Watters Gallery
1986-87
Surface for Reflexion AGNSW
The Challenge of the Landscape NERAM, Armidale, NSW
1986
Works on Paper: 1950 to the Present 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne
20 Years of Abstraction Ivan Dougherty Gallery
37 Artists, 37 Works Watters Gallery
Summer Exhibition No. 3 Watters Gallery
1985
Queensland / Works 1950-1985 University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
The First Decade 1975-1985 Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
Selected Works from the Last Two Decades Pinacotheca, Melbourne
Celebration: 9th Anniversary Exhibition Galerie Düsseldorf
Summer Exhibition No. 2 Watters Gallery
1984
The Field Now Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne
Summer Exhibition No. 1 Watters Gallery
1983
Project 41: The Mosaic/The Grid AGNSW, Sydney
Australian Perspecta 1983 AGNSW
The Wrong Place: Five Sydney Painters Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Twelve Australian Painters Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA)
Tribute to Mervyn Horton AGNSW
Richard Larter & John Peart: Paintings Watters Gallery
1982
Australian Paintings and Sculpture 1956-1981: A Survey from the Collection AGNSW, Sydney
Australian Drawings in the Newcastle Region Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW
The Seventies: Australian Paintings and Tapestries from the Collection of the National Australia Bank NGV
1981
John Peart and David Rankin Watters Gallery
1980
John Peart, Peter Clarke, Anthony Pryor Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Paintings from the studio of… (with Richard Larter, Jon Plapp and David Rankin) Watters Gallery
1979
Works on Paper Watters Gallery
1978
21st Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Abstraction Watters Gallery
Drawings at Watters Gallery Watters Gallery
1977
Australian Colourists ’77 Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth
Mixed Exhibition Watters Gallery
1976
Outlines of Australian Printmaking Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
1975
Inaugural Exhibition The Little Gallery, Devonport, Tas
Caltex Art Awards Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell, Vic
Philip Morris Arts Grant Melbourne City Square, Melbourne
Exhibition of Drawings Watters Gallery
1974
Philip Morris Arts Grant (first annual exhibition)
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
Ten Years Watters Gallery
Gifts from Patrick White AGNSW
1973
Contemporary Australian Painting and Sculpture Touring to New Zealand
Recent Australian Art AGNSW
1969
Australian Art Today toured to Indonesia
1968
The Field NGV, Melbourne and AGNSW, Sydney
1967
Four Sydney Painters Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Mike Brown Appeal Fund Exhibition Watters Gallery
1966
Sydney Painters Auckland Festival of Art, Auckland, NZ
John Peart and Geoffrey de Groen Watters Gallery
The New Art Scene Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
1965
John Peart and Robert Williams: Paintings Watters Gallery
Drawings and Paintings: Group Show Watters Gallery
Four Young Painters Watters Gallery
Survey of Young Australian Painters Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Vic
Albury Regional Gallery
Allens
A.M.P
Applecross Evening Technical College, Perth
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Australian National University Collection
Baker & McKenzie
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
B.H.P. Billiton
Brisbane Civic Art Gallery and Museum
Chartwell Collection,
City Art Institute, Sydney
Dalby Art Gallery, Queensland
Dawson Waldron
Family Law Courts, Canberra
I.C.I. Australia Ltd
J Walter Thompson
Kedumba Drawing Prize Collection
Kerry Stokes Collection, Western Australia
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Victoria
Macquarie University
Monash University
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
New South Wales Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Orange City Art Gallery, New South Wales
Parliament House, Canberra
Philip Morris Art Purchase Grant
Philip Cox and Partners Pty. Ltd
Philip Morris Art Purchase Grant
Queensland Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
State Bank of New South Wales
Tasmanian College of Advanced Education
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Townsville Teachers College
UBS bank
University of New South Wales
University of Sydney
University of Western Australia
Western Australian Institute of Technology
Western Mining Corporation
Wollongong City Art Gallery, New South Wales
World Bank
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn's All that arises at ANU Drill Hall Gallery is serene by Sasha Grishin
The Canberra Times
29 August 2019
An Interaction Between Music and Painting by Nicole Bowller
Australian Performing Arts Collection
2017
John Peart: Artist was at one with every landscape he painted by Jeremy Eccles
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum
16 November 2013
