Peter William Ellis b. 1956

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Contemporary Australian painter influenced by Dada and Surrealism, and by his teacher Andrew Sibley, who also produces collage and laser copy works..
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painter, was born in Sydney on 27 June 1956. After graduating BA from RMIT in 1978, he travelled to the UK, USA and Europe in 1979. His work is influenced by Dada and Surrealism and, locally, by his teacher Andrew Sibley . Collage and laser copy works were shown in his 1990 solo exhibition at Powell Street – his regular exhibiting gallery in Melbourne. McCulloch (p.236) illustrates Eye 1989, charcoal on paper, p.c., showing a Renaissance female face looking at a cow in an eye.

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1999
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2011

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