INVENTION ILLUSION
Graham Peacock, Gordon Rayner

January 20 - March 10

James Rottman Fine Art Gallery, Toronto

Click here to read the Artist's Statement for the INVENTION ILLUSION Exhibition.

Click here to download a PDF of James Rottman Fine Art's invitation to the Opening Reception.

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30 Years of New New Painting

Museum of the New, Toronto, Canada

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Recent installation in the Enbridge Centre (formerly the Kelly Ramsey Building)

Graham Peacock's painting Polo 111 (left) hangs in the lobby of the Enbridge Centre (below), in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

25 Years of New New Painting

Museum of the New, Toronto, Canada
April 8th to May 13th, 2017

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Graham Peacock in the Gallery Gevik's  Spring Group show, May 3rd to 20th, 2016 in Toronto with Scott Plear, Philip Mix, Charles Robb, Rita Letendre, Alex Janvier and Rick Rivet.

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Graham Peacock solo show:
'Topographies' - Graham Peacock at 70' at the Peter Robertson Gallery, February 11 to March 01, 2016.

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Read the Artist's Statement for the exhibition here.

Graham Peacock's painting 'Starry Night' (1987) on view at the Art Gallery of Alberta's 90 x 90: Celebrating Art in Alberta exhibition (Part One, May 17th to September 14th, 2014) 

90 x 90: Celebrating Art in Alberta is a two part exhibition that has been organized to commemorate the Art Gallery of Alberta's birthday. Inaugurated on August 17, 1924, the AGA is the oldest cultural institution in the province of Alberta and its only solely dedicated art museum.

Taking the concept of the 90th birthday as a starting point, 90 x 90 features the work of 90 Alberta artists with artworks that were produced in the AGA's life span: 1924-2014. More a celebration of Alberta art and creativity than an attempt to represent or write a history of art in the province, 90 x 90 features work in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video and installation, with works by some of the province's most renowned and innovative artists.

More information about the exhibition is available here.

You can see Graham's painting 'Starry Night' - and other artworks on view in the exhibition - here.

Graham Peacock at Gallery Gevik, April 12 to 30th 2014 

We are delighted to announce that Graham Peacock has a Solo Exhibition of 'Painted Canvas Collages and Paintings' at Gallery Gevik in Toronto. You can visit the gallery, and the exhibit, here.

Graham Peacock now represented by Gallery Gevik Toronto

We are pleased to announce that Graham Peacock is now being represented by Gallery Gevik, located on Hazelton Avenue in Toronto's Yorkville District.

You can visit the gallery's page devoted to Graham's work here.

August 2013

Graham Peacock's painting Age and Romance to hang in the Canadian Embassy, Washington D.C.


Provenance

Age and Romance (above) was one of two painting shown in 1995 in a New New Painting Exhibition presented by Galerie Piltzer of Paris at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, USA.  The work was later acquired by the Government of Canada: it has now been selected to hang at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC.

At 77 x 79 x 3 1/2 inches, this work is the largest of the rotondo paintings of this time, and is from the ' Glitter Paintings', a group of works in which Peacock focused on using reflective pigment including glitter, metallic paints, glass and plastic beads and reflective disc pieces in his work. The work has a physical depth of 3 1/2 " with canvas undulations visible in the image above.

Age and Romance was titled for its old world character of pearls and lace such as one might see at a formal ball.  So it is perhaps fitting that it will hang in such a setting.

The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society

I exhibited at the 2013 ECAS Exhibition at the Enterprise Square Galleries at 10230 Jasper Avenue in Edmonton.

Click on the poster on the left to view and download a larger version.

Specifically, I exhibited Cochin and There and Back from the new Geometric works. Read an introduction to these paintings here, where there is a link to the Geometric gallery.

New Geometric paintings now online

We have recently added a gallery for my new Geometric paintings and have included a new slide show to the Features page showing how the paintings are created.

In these new works, the ‘crazing ‘ - my signature invention - is reintroduced with the smaller scale crazing of the 1980’s and we see the re-emergence of the angular stretcher. In addition, for the first time since the early 1970’s I am starting the painting by setting the shape before I pour paint.

The "Exhibition of Small Works" has now closed

However, these works remain available for viewing, includig Watercolours, Collages and Original Prints, newly framed to museum standards (prices start at $425).

Scroll down for gallery location and other information.


The watercolours consist of a selection of representational works painted over many years from, the west coast of B.C. (seascapes), Southern Italy (views of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius), and the Dominican Republic, French and Turkish subjects. All painted on site, during my travels. I have rarely shown this side of my work, as it has not been my preoccupation, but I regularly worked with students in wash techniques and taught classes in watercolour for the U of A Spring Session, on the Sorrento peninsula of Italy in 2006, 2007 and  2008. These watercolours reflect my beginnings as painter, in my teens, inspired by Turner and Constable, painting on holidays with my parents in Devon, England. Then I went to art school and began my journey towards abstraction.

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Also I have completed a new group of abstract rectangular 'Painted Canvas Collages', Miniatures 8 x 6 ,14 x 11, and a few 24 x 20, 40 x 30 and 48 x 60  inches. These collages combine pre-painted off cuts stripes with painted bands in vertical compositions, which are for me unique colour and surface sketches. I often make groups of these based on my travels, inspired by the colours and textures of differing environments and cultures.

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I have also framed a small group of Linoleum Mono Prints, 'The Pamukkali Suite', printed in Denizli, Turkey , made during an artists workshop at Pamukkali University in 2010. These prints are based on my early 'crazed' paintings begun in 1982, and are printed on the finest French rag papers with Charbonnel inks. I made four plates,each print being inked uniquely making a mono print, only one of  each colour and composition.

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Please give me a call anytime 780 709 7688 if you wish to visit.

My studio is located in the The Dorchester Building, 10357 - 109 street, the red brick building on the corner of 109 St. and 102 Ave (National Film Board). You can park across the street at Future Shop or behind at Denny's.

Enter via rear or front door and descend to the lower floor