Peter Griffen was born in Adelaide.
Frustrated by opportunities to exhibit his work he purchased his own gallery in King William Road. Flight Gallery was famous for exhibiting up and coming artists , plus for it's lively social activities.
Opportunities in Sydney were too much to resist and Peter relocated in the late 70s. He has gone onto be one of Australia's finest artists with 5 decades of exhibitions here and overseas.
Over fifty solo showings throughout Australia, five in London, four in Paris, two in St.Tropez, one in Lyon and one in New Zealand.
[ You'll find a full list below on the page.]
His work has been exhibited in art fairs in Europe, UK, Canada and Asia. He exhibits widely in group exhibitions, has been commissioned several times and his work has been acquired for private, public and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.
Peter Griffen works and lives with fellow artist, Denise Lithgow in their expansive studio in Sydney's Inner West.
Peter also enjoys working en plein air in various parts of the world, especially in the outback of Australia.
Today Peter is more active than ever with his ever increasing projects, travel, exhibitions plus being President of The Glebe Art Society.
exhibitions.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 On a Tilted Axis, Audrey Fine Art,Pyrmont NSW
2022 “Investigations, Influences and Distractions” Audrey Fine Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 “Outback” Soho Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 Chatswood Foyer Exhibition, Soho Galleries, NSW, Australia2016 – 2011
2016 “Landscape, My Perspective” The Design Gallery, Terrigal, NSW
2015 “Life on Earth”, Chifley Tower, (Soho Galleries), Sydney, Australia
2014 Cessnock Regional Gallery, Cessnock, NSW, Australia, Touring exhibition
2014 Cessnock Regional Gallery, Cessnock, NSW, Australia, Touring exhibition
2014 Painters Gallery, Manly, NSW, Australia
2013 Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, NSW, Australia, Touring exhibition
2012 NERAM, Armidale, NSW, Australia, Touring exhibition
2012 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia, Touring exhibition
2012 Wagner Art Gallery book launch, In and Out of Abstraction
2012 Painters Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Aust
2009, 05, 03, 02, 01 Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Aust
2008 Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA ‘Tracks to a Waterhole’
2007 Nepean College of TAFE, NSW
2006 Art Feeling, Lyon, France
2006 Chase Tribal and Contemporary Art, NSW
2005 Perth Concert Hall, WA
2005 Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA
2005 Bruce Macfie Gallery of Fine Art, Gold Coast, Qld
2005, 03, 02, 01 Wagner Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Reybourn House, Whangerai, NZ
2004 Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2003 Australian Embassy, Paris, France
2003 Macquarie University (Survey Show), NSW
2003, 01 Australian Film Festival, St Tropez, France
2003, 01, 99, 97, 95 James Colman, London, UK
2003, 02 Dagmar Art Consultants, Melbourne, VIC
2002, 93, 88 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA
2001 Bimbadgen Estate, Hunter Valley, NSW
1999, 96, 94 Qantas Domestic Terminal, NSW
1998, 95, 94, 91 Solander Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1997, 98 North Sydney Fine Art Gallery, NSW
1997 Quadrivium, Sydney, NSW
1996 The Oven, New York, NY, USA
1996, 95 Convent Gallery, Daylesford, VIC
1995, 93, 91 Gallerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France
1995 Espace Alliance, Sydney, NSW
1995 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs NT
1995 Andrew Vincent Galleries, Brisbane, QLD
1994, 93, 92 Sydney Oyster Bar, Sydney, NSW
1994, 92 Mary Reiby Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1993, 91, 89 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1993 Breewood Galleries, Katoomba, NSW
1990 Orange Regional Gallery (West Room), Orange, NSW
1988, 78 Flight Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
1986 First Impression Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1986, 85 Nicholson Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1975 Vargas Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Group Exhibitions
2024 Earth Poetry 3, The Shop Gallery, Glebe, NSW, Australia
2024 Flair & Form, Royal Art Society, North Sydney, NSW Australia
2022 “Landscape Responses”, 2person, Brenda Colahan Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW,Australia
2022,20,18,17 Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
2022,21,20 “Greenway Prize” Artest, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 “Sculpture Decadence” Audrey Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021 “Three Perspectives” 3person, The Shop Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020 Paddington Prize, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020 “Sculptures in the Garden”, Rosby Vineyard, Mudgee, NSW, Australia
2020 “Gang of Five”, The Shop Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019″Abstracts from the Lowlands and Downunder”, 4person, Buren, Netherlands
2019 “Group Abstract Exhibition” SoHo Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019 “Responses to the Landscape”, 2person, Leichhardt Library, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2019 “Wandering West” 2person, The Design Gallery, Terrigal, NSW, Australia
2019,17 “Gang of Five”, Bowral, NSW, Australia
2018 Chateau de Gizeux, 4person, Loire Valley France
2018,17,16,15,14 Annual Australian Watercolour Institute exhibition, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018 “Earth Poetry” 3person, Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale, SA, Australia
2018 Hunters Hill Art Prize, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2018,17 Dunedoo Art Prize, NSW, Australia
2017 Kiama Art Society, guest artist, NSW, Australia
2017 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW, Australia
2017 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Wollongong,NSW, Australia
2017 Hornsby Art Prize, Hornsby, NSW, Australia
2016 – 2011
2016 Guest Artist, Canberra Artists SocietySpring Exhibition,Canberra, ACT, Australia
2016 “Hunters and Gatherers”,4person, Red Poles Gallery, McLaren Vale,SA, Australia
2016 Pandora Gallery, 2person, Coolah, NSW,Australia
2015 “Coastal Watch”, 2person, Curve Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
2015 “The Two of Us” 2person, Breathing Colours Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2015,12 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
2014 “Flowers, Figures and Felted Vessels”, 2person, Painters Gallery,NSW, Australia
2014 “Collectors Choice”, Artsite Gallery, NSW, Australia
2013 “Drawing: A Fundamental Liberation 3” Wagner Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2013 “Walking the Landscape”, 4person, Artsite Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Australia
2012 two-person (with Bernard Ferriere) Galleri Art Feeling, Millau, France
2012, Figurative Difference, 2-person, (with Dagmar Cyrulla), Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
2012 two-person, (with Denise Lithgow), Grenfell Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2012 Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown, NSW
2012, 11 Glebe Art Prize, NSW
2011 Sulman Prize AGNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW
2011 Hunters Hill Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, NSW
2010 – 2000
2010, 09, 08, 07, 06 Glebe Art Prize, NSW
2010 Tattersalls Club Art Prize, Invitation, Brisbane, Qld
2010 Art Melbourne 10, May Street Studios
2010, 06, 05 Art Sydney 10
2010 Chilli Rooms (two exhibitions), Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008 Blake Prize for Religous Art, NSW
2009, 08, 07 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2007 Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown, NSW
2006 Art Melbourne 06 Icon Gallery (two person), Vic
2006, 05, Sydney Art Fair, Icon Gallery (two person), NSW
2005, 04, 03 Taylor Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW
2004 Icon Gallery, Sydney, NSW, “Parallel Stories”
2004, 02 Fleurieu Prize, SA
2003 Gold Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2003 Galeri Aniela, Kangaroo Valley, NSW (3 Person)
2003 Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, NSW, “Double Vision”
2003, 02 Delmar Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988, 89, 99 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
1997, 96 Tattersalls Club Art Prize, Invitation, Brisbane, Qld
1997, 95, 93, 91 Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook, NSW
1997, 92, 84 Hunters Hill Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, NSW
1997 Singapore Art Exp., Singapore
1996 Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996 Werrington TAFE, Sydney, NSW
1996 ART, Islington, UK
1995, 96 British Art Fair, London, UK
1994 Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT
1994 Jill Richards Gallery, Sydney, NSW (2 person)
1994 Gallery on Booth, Sydney, NSW
1992, 02 Qantas Club, Sydney Domestic Terminal
1992, 93, 94 Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle, NSW
1991, 93, 95, 97 Muswellbrook Art Prize, NSW (finalist)
1991, 95 LineArt Ghent Art Fair, Belgium
1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 Delmar Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991 John Olsen Drawing Prize, Bathurst, NSW (Finalist)
1991 “Sydney and the Fringes”, Inv, Holdsworth Gal, NSW
1990 Biennale Internationale du Pastel, St. Quentin, France
1990 “Visual Instincts”, Curated Drawing, University of NSW
1990 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Vic
1990 University of Vermont, USA
1989 Sulman Prize (finalist) Art Gallery of NSW
1988, 89, 90 North Sydney Contemporary Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988 City of Lake Macquarie-Charlestown, Contemporary Art Prize, NSW
1988, 91 Faber-Castell Drawing Prize (finalist), Sydney, NSW
1987 Stadford Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1987, 88 Cooper Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1986 N.B. Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1986 Nidus Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1985, 86 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1985, 86 Arthaus, Sydney, NSW
1984, 92, 97 Hunters Hill Art Prize (finalist), Sydney, NSW
1983, 89, 90, 91, 92 Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown, NSW
1981 Ebert & Boussage Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1979 Contemporary Art Society of S A, Adelaide, SA
1972 David Sumner Gallery, Adelaide, SA
