B. 1940 

Contemporary artist Peter Booth grew up in the English steel mining town of Sheffield. At seventeen he migrated to Australia, where he met and became the mentee of artist John Brack who helped shift emphasis in Booth’s work away from minimalist abstraction to figuration. This was bolstered by Booth’s discovery of Goya, William Blake and Tolstoy. 

Booth's works exist at the edges of “real” human experience. At once sublime and existential, they conjure a sense of poetic unease, mediating on the unspoken truths of the human condition. Among Australia's most revered contemporary artists, Booth is represented in all public collections. In 2003, he was the subject of a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and again in 2023 at TarraWarra Museum of Art. 

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