Utopia
We move through anonymous public spaces every day without giving them much thought.
In Utopia, those spaces are slowed down and made unfamiliar. Paths seem to lead nowhere, buildings give little away about their purpose, and signs either disappear or stop making sense.
The photographs are carefully ordered, with clean lines, repeated shapes, restrained colour and open skies. At first they can appear calm, even inviting. Look a little longer and something starts to feel slightly off.
Grass becomes almost artificial, concrete structures sit heavily against the landscape, and arrows point towards nothing in particular.
The work sits somewhere between the real and the imagined, using ordinary urban spaces to explore isolation, uncertainty and the way we experience the built environment.
Utopia developed through Peter’s Master of Arts, Photography at Photography Studies College, Melbourne. He graduated in 2022 and received the MGA Monash Gallery of Art Award for Excellence.
Arrival (2020)
Framed print 1660 x 1150
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White
Natural timber frame 40 x 20 mm
$2,600
These were the best of times, it was the age of light and enlightenment (2020)
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Natural timber frame 40 x 20 mm
$2,600
Here journeys have ended, the pioneering flame has guttered and failed (2020)
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Natural timber frame 40 x 20 mm
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Only a sort of luminous enduring calm remains (2021)
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Natural timber frame 40 x 20 mm
SOLD
Semper Anticus [always forward]+ (2022)
Framed print 1150 × 810 mm
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Natural timber frame, 40 × 20 mm
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MotorHotel [offered me an avenue of escape] (2020)
Framed print 1150 × 810 mm
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Natural timber frame, 40 × 20 mm
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Disparitions #1 (2021)
Framed print 1150 × 810 mm
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Natural timber frame, 40 × 20 mm
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A brooding sense of hopelessness prevailed (2021)
Framed print 1150 × 810 mm
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Natural timber frame, 40 × 20 mm
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Parable [or allegory] (2021)
Framed print 1150 × 810 mm
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Natural timber frame, 40 × 20 mm
$1,600
Disparitions #2 (2021)
Framed print 1150 × 810 mm
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White
Natural timber frame, 40 × 20 mm
$1,600