Peter Stichbury (born 1969 in
Auckland) is a New Zealand
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
. Stichbury graduated from the
Elam School of Fine Arts,
University of Auckland, in 1997.
He won New Zealand’s prestigious
Wallace Art Awards the same year.
Stichbury is primarily a
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
but his body of work also spans the mediums of
drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...
,
watercolour,
sculpture and sound based work. Stichbury is most renowned for his intricate yet flat portraits of models and modern beauties sourced from contemporary media images.
Stichbury is represented by the New York gallery Tracy Williams, Ltd. In 2019 a painting by Stichbury fetched $67,270 NZD at auction.
Influences
Stichbury is influcened by modern psychology and
sociology, alien conspiracy theory, popular culture and historical painters including
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ...
and
Lucian Freud.
References
External links
Official website
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1969 births
Living people
Elam Art School alumni
New Zealand artists