Walker st gallery - Peter Biram & Peter Rowe

Peter Rowe
Recent works on paper
Peter combines collage, and various media to explore colour, space and energy. Torn fragments from a range of photographic images are re-constructed into a surreal landscape comprising a series of layers.

Peter Biram
Environmental reflections with undertones of possible disaster
Peter investigates the fine balance that exists in the natural environment, the Order & Chaos found within nature and the balance of power shifting between the two states.

I found peter Biram work to be vibrant and alive! I quite enjoyed this work because of the life about it, the loud colours the chaotic line work and brush strokes. This brush work coupled with sections of solid dot work not dissimilar to our indigenous artists, however not so similar that it would cause upset. The dot work considered there in was done freehand but straight enough that one could easily be misled into thing that it was done by a machine or computer

I enjoyed his work on two different level or design element & principals, in that I enjoyed both the colour and the subject matter. Witch is somewhat of a rarity for me. I found that his work would look just as good in both black & white and in colour! Not only this but it had amazing texture flowing through it, another aspect that is very high on my aesthetic list. I was most impressed Biram’s work!

Peter Rowe on the other hand, I failed to grasp the aesthetics of his work I found them to be the very opposite of Peter Biram’s work - that being dull and life less, and very two dimensional.
Which was in shier contrast having the art work in such close proximity that made even more obvious the difference between the two! I know that, that was the very intention of the curator, the contrast of the two peters having completely opposites styles. The only thing that I found that this achieved is that it made one artist work better (Biram) and one artist look worse (Rowe).

Having said all of the above I very much enjoyed the view of both works despite my disagreement with the curators layout, Had I arranged the space I would have had Biram’s work set up with another artist with a style similar to that or Piet Mondrian, there couldn’t be a greater contrast!