Peter Benjamin Graham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter Benjamin Graham

Australian painter

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1925

Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 15-Apr-1987

Profession: graphic designer, painter

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Peter Benjamin Graham

  • Peter Benjamin Graham (4 June 1925 – 15 April 1987), was an Australian visual artist, printer, and art theorist. In 1954, Graham began to explore native Australian wildlife (notably Kangaroos) and themes associated with Aboriginal culture, using the visual languages of European figurative Modernism and later geometric abstraction. He began developing a new form of visual geometry related to Chaos Theory from 1960, eventually called Thematic Orchestration.
  • This new visual language enabled the 2D deconstruction and synthesis of an observed subject, in a way fundamentally different from traditional abstraction.
  • Thematic Orchestration allows the artist to 'grow' an image, producing almost infinite conscious invention. In 1964, Graham began developing what he called a high level visual notation system for pure visual imagery, which he first named "Notation Painting" and later "New Epoch Art".Graham became a pioneer of the Australian artist run initiative movement, running The Queensberry Street Gallery in association with Victorian Printmakers' Group from 1973 until 1978. In 2006, Graham's 1945 painting Peter Lalor Addressing the Miners Before Eureka featured in a major Australian travelling exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade.
  • This painting is also featured in Riot or Revolution, a dramatised history documentary on the Eureka Stockade directed by Don Parham and produced by Parham Media Productions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2005.

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