PETER D. COLE
In 1968 Cole completed a Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture) at the South Australian School of Art, and was awarded the HP Gill Medal and the Contemporary Art Society Drawing Prize. From 1973 to 1992 he was the lecturer in charge of sculpture at the Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne.
Cole has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since the early seventies. Exhibition highlights include the Carpenter Centre for Visual Arts, Harvard university,1995; Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1981, 1984 and 1990; Volume and Form, Singapore, 1990; Tokyo Designers Block Idée, Tokyo, 2002; National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, This was the Future, Heide Museum of Modern Art 2003; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2003; Site Unseen, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2003.
Peter D. Cole has been commissioned to create major artworks for public sites including Foundation Park, The Rocks, Sydney, for which Cole was awarded the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Award for Merit in 1995 and the Australian National Heritage Trust Award 1996. He has also created works for Chiefly Tower, Sydney; Thredbo Alpine Village; Brisbane International Airport; Sydney Casino; BHP and Freshwater Place, Southbank Melbourne. His work is held in public and corporate collections including Artbank, Crown Casino, Monash University, Parliament House and the Australian National Gallery and private collections in Australia, USA. UK, Israel and Japan.
PETER D. COLE - CURRICULUM VITAE
1947 Born in Gawler, South Australia
1965-68 Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture), South Australian School Of Art
1970 Moved to Melbourne
Presently living in Langley, via Kyneton central Victoria
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1970 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1980 Ewing and George Paton Galleries , Melbourne
1983 United Artists Gallery, Melbourne
1984-91 Annual exhibitions at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1986 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1990 William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1995 Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, USA.
1997 Steele Gallery, New York USA.
1998 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Australian Galleries Works on Paper Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Calder Lister Gallery, Perth
2001 Australian Galleries, Sydney
2002 Australian Galleries Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney
2002 Australian Galleries works on paper Gallery, Melbourne
2003 New Sculptures, John Buckley, Melbourne
2004 Calder Lister Gallery Perth
2006 New works, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2006 New works, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Calder Lister Gallery Perth
2007 New Sculpture, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Elements + Memories, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2011 New Sculptures, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1967-68 Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide
1970 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura
1981 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1984 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1985 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura
1987 The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery
1988 Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura
1989 Tasmania Touring Exhibition
1990 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1991 William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Powell Street Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Chicago International Art Fair
1992 Editions Gallery, Melbourne
1995-02 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Calder Lister gallery Perth
1999 Volume and Form Singapore
2001 Nocturne Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2002 Tokyo Designers Block Idee Tokyo
2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia
2003 Bendigo Art Gallery Site Unseen
2003 McClelland Survey & Award 2003
2003 This was the future Australian sculpture of the1950s, 60s, 70s + Today Heide Museum of Modern Art
2005 End of Year Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries Painting and Sculpture, Sydney
2006 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Christmas Collectors’ Exhibition, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Snapshot, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 New Year Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Summer Stock Show, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Summery, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2007 Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Something Old, Something New …: The sculpture show, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Cole and Hickey, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Art Bank
Australian National Gallery, A.CT.
Bankers Trust
Crown Casino, Melbourne
Caulfield City Council, Melbourne
Clayton Utz, Sydney, Melbourne
Ernst and Young, Melbourne
Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura
Monash University, Melbourne
Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Parliament House, Canberra
Phillip Morris Corp. Melbourne
Potter Warburg, Melbourne
Powercorp Melbourne
Royal Pines, Gold Coast
Wollongong Regional Art Gallery
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 Art and Australia, vol. 8 no 1, June
1980 Age, 13 may (Architecture column)
1981 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne (catalogue)
1985 Graeme Sturgeon, Sculpture ,The Story of the Mildura
Sculpture Triennial, 1961-1982, Mildura City Council, Mildura,1985
1984 Australia Sculpture Now, Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne ( catalogue)
1986 Interior Design, issue 5
Craft Art vol. 5, Autumn issue
1987 Interior Design issue 13
1987 World Expo 88 Collection, Brisbane (catalogue)
1987 New Art 11, Neville Drury, Craftsman House, Sydney
1990 On Site Sculpture, Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne (catalogue)
1990 Age Entertainment Guide,18 September
1991 Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May (review)
1993 Age, Good Weekend, 12 June
1994 New Sculpture, Neville Drury, G+B Arts International LTD. distributed by Craftsman House, Sydney
1994 Peter D Cole Sculpture and Works on Paper 1992-1994,Australian Galleries (catalogue)
1996 Channel 9 Sunday Programme, 3 September
1999 Sculpture [USA Art publication] Sept issue 1999
2001 Belle Magazine
2001 request response.reaction The designers of Australia and New Zealand
2002 image publishing Stephen Crafti (book)
2003 National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition National Gallery of Australia (catalogue)
AWARDS
1968 H.P. Gill Medal, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide;
Contemporary Art Society Drawing Prize, Adelaide.
1995 Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture, Award of Merit for Foundation Park, The Rocks, Sydney
1996 Australian National Trust Heritage Award for Foundation Park, The Rocks, Sydney
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
World Expo 1988,Brisbane BHP. and Transfield Corporation
200 metre sculptural walk painted steel. relocated on south bank Brisbane.
Darling Harbour,Sydney - commissioned large scale bronze sculpture
Caulfield City Council Melbourne suspended sculpture
Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria permanently located Bronze and stone sculpture
Chifley Tower, Sydney permanently located sculpture in Bent street lobby commissioned by owners MID
Foundation Park , The Rocks, Sydney
Design of park and construction of elements for Foundation Park. Worked in consultation with Sydney Cove Authority
1995 Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture, Award of Merit Foundation Park,The Rocks, Sydney
1996 Australian National Trust Heritage Award for Foundation Park,
Queensland Police Headquarters Brisbane. Large suspended sculpture worked in consultation with Bligh Voller architects.
Thredbo Alpine Village Large painted steel outdoor sculpture
Brisbane International Airport Worked in consultation with Bligh Voller architects and Jean Battersby Art Consultant on large suspended sculptures and series of wall installations
Bank of Melbourne, 360 Collins Street Melbourne Large free standing sculptural screen - worked in consultation with architects Bates Smart McCutcheon
Opera Quays Sydney Two large suspended sculptures adjacent to collonade to Opera House.
Worked in consultation with Andrew Andersons of Peddle Thorpe. Part of Sydney Cove Sculpture walk.
Angel Place Sydney
Tapestry Workshop commissioned tapestry for McClelland Gallery Victoria
Channel 7 "Pixillated Landscape" 2001 wall installation mixed media and light.
Lake Sculpture Shepparton 2002
Department for the Environment, John Gorton Building Canberra 2003
Chadstone Shopping Center Melbourne
Freshwater Place Southbank Melbourne
Heide Museum of Modern Art Ken Fletcher Memorial Sculpture