CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN DRAWING
20 YEARS OF THE DOBELL PRIZE FOR DRAWING
Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Helen Campbell
"Musings on Life and Death, and some of the things that happen along the way”, Catalogue for the exhibition at John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY 2017
With some Thoughts and observations by Tine Lundsfryd
"Traverse", Catalogue for the exhibition with Essay by Peter Bonner , William Holman Gallery, NY NY 2016
Conversation Between Peter Bonner and David Cohen (Unedited) during the Exhibition "The Plains" at John Davis Gallery, NY- May 2019
Observations on the work included in the exhibition “Sitting Space V’s Standing Space”, BY Rosemary Crumlin and DR Robin Kingston
Monash University, Melbourne, February 2010
"Thicket"
Peter Bonner, Dianne Bowen, Claire Corey, Roya Farassat, Kylie Heidenheimer, Seren Morey, Sophie Plimpton, Richard Rivera, Becky Yazdan, Raphael Zollinger
Station Independent projects NY NY 2017
Curated by David Gibson
Curated the exhibition "Traverse" with Farideh Sakhaeifar and Rebecca Bird, at the William Holman gallery, NY NY February 17th - march 24th 2016
Artcritical
Peter Bonner is an artist who packs a lot of history into his paintings, drawings and collages: art history, personal history, you name it. His works have gloriously redolent titles like In the Gobi Desert (from 50 places to have sex before you die, #31), Some Way of Turning Back from the Dull Tin Roof, and, pictured above, The Awful Fact of it Glinting in the Meager Light. These draw upon fellow Australian Tim Winton’s short stories of adolescent life and the restorative capacity of nature, as well as Bonner’s own recollected experiences of a troubled upbringing. Such themes merge and submerge in a plethora of idioms that are highly personal while channeling the masters of expressionism, from Chaim Soutine through Willem de Kooning and George McNeil to an occasional nod in the direction of a contemporary like Bill Jensen. Whether the results are timeless or merely turn their back on time, there is no question that Bonner instills his vigorous, luscious touch with narrative urgency. DAVID COHEN
Peter Bonner, The Awful Fact of it Glinting in the Meager Light, 2015. Oil on Panel, 9 x 10 inches. Courtesy of William Holman Gallery
Review of "White Turning" , New York, by David Cohen 2015